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Board agreeson 7.5% waterrate increaseFirst single-digit increase in 5 years

BY RICH BOCKMANN

Get ready to pay more for your water.

On Friday, the city Water Board voted unanimously to ap-prove the 7.5 percent water rate increase proposed by the city De-partment of Environmental Pro-tection.

It is the first single-digit in-crease in five years, but 35 per-cent less than the figure the de-partment had projected last year.

State Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Little Neck) said that while the increase was preferable to the proposed 11.5 percent, it is still too high.

“Had there been reasonable increases in the past, this would be not so outrageous,” he said. “But these increases all add up. It gets compounded each year.” Weprin has introduced a bill that would limit each year’s water rate

increase to 5 percent.Earlier last week, the pub-

lic turnout at the Queens Water Board hearing was like the new rate increase: in the single digits. Only a handful of people showed up at PS 499 in Flushing for DEP Commissioner Cas Holloway’s presentation, which cited a num-ber of federal- and state-mandated projects such as the Croton filtra-tion, ultraviolet disinfection and Newtown Creek treatment plants for 15 consecutive years of water rate increases.

For fiscal year 2012, 42 per-cent of the DEP’s operating bud-get will go to pay the debt service for these capital projects.

“I can say without qualifica-tion that this is the most capital work ever done at the same time,” the commissioner said. “That has to end. By doing all these projects at the same time, that’s what’s

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Coping with Loss

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BAMBI IN BAYSIDEPolice officer Michael Hance holds a fawn that was brought into the 111th Precinct Monday. The deer was later taken in by Wildlife in Need of Rescue and Rehbilitation on Long Island, where rescuer Robert Hornath says the female fawn is being fed bottles of goat’s milk five times a day. Hornath es-timates that the deer is three weeks old and says she is in good health. See more photos at www.timesledger.com. Photo by Christina Santucci

BY CONNOR ADAMS SHEETS A restaurateur’s plan to over-

haul the White House restaurant in Whitestone is one step closer to becoming reality after securing the approval of the city Planning Commission.

The commission, which did not respond to calls for com-ment, considered a proposal last month by Joe Franco, owner of the restaurant at 10-24 154th St., to rezone the block containing his property so he can upgrade and expand the space.

The commission voted May 11 on Franco’s proposal, which would rezone the block of 154th Street from 10th to 11th avenues to allow the construction of cer-tain types of two-story residen-tial and commercial buildings, but stripped it of a commercial overlay on two homes that would have allowed them to be sold and converted to businesses in the fu-ture, according to state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside).

The proposal now goes be-fore the City Council, which is ex-pected to vote for a version of the proposal because Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) has said he would support it if it was tailored to meet specific criteria.

Halloran said Tuesday he had yet to receive a final ver-

Joe Franco’s restaurant rezone approved by city

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BY CONNOR ADAMS SHEETS

Two Whitestone men from North Africa made their second appearances in Manhattan criminal court Tuesday after being ordered held without bail last Thursday on terrorism charges.

The charges came in connection with an alleged plot to blow up synagogues and other targets in New York City, the Manhattan district attorney said.

Ahmed Ferhani, 26, who is unemployed and moved to America from Al-geria, and livery dispatcher Mohamed Mamdouh, an American citizen from Mo-rocco, were arrested about 6 p.m. May 11 at separate lo-cations in Manhattan, the DA said.

They appeared in court Tuesday on charges con-nected to an alleged plan to bomb any of a number of sites they identified, includ-ing an unnamed church in Queens, the Empire State Building and an unidenti-fied “major synagogue” in Manhattan, according to the DA.

Ferhani went before a grand jury and a certificate of affirmative grand jury action was filed, Manhat-tan DA spokeswoman Diem Tra said. He is scheduled to be arraigned June 16. Mamdouh also appeared in court but did not go before a grand jury because the case was adjourned until June 2 “to allow more time for the grand jury,” Tran said.

The men’s arrests came after a seven-month investigation handled en-tirely by local authorities because federal law en-forcement declined to get involved.

“The defendants were arrested at the conclusion of an investigation that re-vealed that they intended to bomb synagogues because of their hatred of Jews,” Manhattan Assistant Dis-trict Attorney Margaret Gandy said last Thursday in court.

The DA said the two men, who were charged with conspiracy as a crime

of terrorism, conspiracy as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon and attempted criminal posses-sion of a weapon as a crime of terrorism, were lone wolves and had no direct ties to al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups.

Mamdouh, who has family on Parsons Boule-vard in Whitestone, lives elsewhere in the northeast Queens neighborhood, ac-cording to a female relative who answered the phone at the Parsons address. He attended Flushing High School, Steven Fusfeld, an attorney for Mamdouh

said. Mamdouh came to America in 1999, Kelly said, and he lived on Parsons Boulevard.

Ferhani, of 143rd Street, was a permanent resident of the United States who arrived in America in 1995, Kelly said. He worked as a sales associate at Saks Fifth Avenue and held an associate degree in busi-ness from Borough of Man-hattan Community College, according to his profile on the social-networking site LinkedIn, where he was a member of groups for ani-mal lovers, actors and mod-

BY RICH BOCKMANN Since taking office in

January, state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) has re-peatedly pledged to stay active in the local affairs of his constituents, and dur-ing his first town hall meet-ing last week, he placed himself — literally— be-tween the city’s various de-partments and the people they serve.

Representatives from the 105th Precinct and a number of municipal de-partments sat on the audi-torium stage of MS 172 in Bellerose last Thursday night as Avella stood along-side local civic associations and mediated questions and complaints from a frus-trated crowd.

It did not take long to realize that city Depart-ment of Buildings spokes-man Anthony Iuliano would have his work cut out for him.

“The Department of Buildings is the worst agency in the history of the city,” Avella quipped. The senator said he was still

in the process of distribut-ing his first newsletter — a civic checklist that nearly 2,000 constituents had al-ready returned and listed buildings, city Department of Environmental Protec-tion and traffic issues as their major concerns.

Iuliano said that of the 7,500 complaints his depart-ment had received from Queens from January to April, 48 percent concerned illegal conversions and 39 percent were for work with-out permits.

Most residents ex-pressed frustration with the city’s 311 complaint reg-istration service.

“Never call 311,” said Avella, who encouraged those with complaints to contact the agencies direct-ly or alert their civic associ-ations and elected officials. He promised to make his second newsletter a listing of the heads of the city’s different departments and their phone numbers.

In response, Iuliano spoke in a matter-of-fact tone when he said, “If you

Ahmed Ferhani, 26 (l.), and Mohamed Mamdouh, 20, appear in court for arraignment last Thursday. Both men are charged with a terrorist plot targeting various sites in New York, including synagogues and an unnamed Queens church. AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, Pool

No bail for alleged terroristsTwo Whitestone men planned to bomb synagogues, church: DA

Avella censures 311at town hall meet

State Sen. Tony Avella (c.) speaks at his first town hall meeting at MS 172 in Bellerose last week. Photo by Rich Bockmann

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‘Absolutely Anna’ taking the stage at Bay TerraceOne-woman show written by Anna Berger of ‘The Sopranos’ encapsulates 50 years of acting

BY RICH BOCKMANN

Anna Berger, known for her portrayals of char-acters in film and television and on the stage, brings her original play, “Absolutely Anna,” to the Bay Terrace Jewish Center this Sunday.

Berger, a member of the Actors Studio, has been performing for more than 50 years in movies such as “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3” and television shows like “The Sopranos” and “NYPD Blue.”

The walls of her apart-ment on the Upper West Side are covered with pho-tos of family and friends, some of whom have names more famous than oth-ers. She explained earlier this week that “Absolutely Anna” is somewhat of a his-tory of actors, from the per-sonal to the public.

Berger, the daughter

of Jewish immigrants, pointed to a poster for the film “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Gold-berg,” a documentary on Gertrude Berg, star of the 1950s television sitcom “The Goldbergs.”

“She was Jewish. It was unheard of at that time in America to be Jewish and be on television,” Berg-er said.

“The Goldbergs” was her first television perfor-mance as a child, and “Ab-solutely Anna” depicts the personal trajectory of the actress, from growing up in tenements on the Lower East Side to living through the McCarthy era and the Red Scare, when many of her friends and colleagues were blacklisted.

“It’s about art and the history of the theatre ... and a little bit of name-dropping,” she said with a smile.

Those names include Walter Matthau and Mae

West, Harry Belafonte and Marlon Brando. It was an-

other renowned friend, Bea Arthur, who inspired Berg-er to write her own play about five years ago.

When her husband, Bob, decided to retire, Berg-er made the choice to stop spending about six months out of the year in Califor-nia for work.

“Bea told me, ‘You’re going to go home and write your own show.’ So I told her, ‘I’m an actor, not a writer,’” Berger recounted.

She retreated to the Actors Studio, and after a period of writing and re-vising, “Absolutely Anna” emerged as an hour and a half of what the actress called her “wonderful jour-ney.”

“‘My name is Anna Berger and I’ve been an actress for 50 years. I don’t want to date myself; it’s ac-tually been 60 years,’” she said the one-woman show

begins.“It struck me she

talks about the life of Jews on the Lower East Side at the beginning. So many of us had family that emi-grated and had the Lower East Side experience,” said Lila Edelkind, the former president of the Bay Ter-race Jewish Center, who approached Berger about performing her show there. “The stories are charming. I’m fascinated by the people she met both in and out of showbiz.

Anna Berger wrote and stars in “Absolutely Anna” Sunday, May 22, at 3 p.m. at the Bay Terrace Jewish Center at 13-00 209th St. in Bayside.

Reach reporter Rich Bockmann by e-mail at [email protected] or by phone at 718-260-4574.

Anna Berger will star in “Absolutely Anna” this Sunday at the Bay Terrace Jewish Center. Photo by Rich Bockmann

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BY JOE ANUTA

Immigrant workers in Queens are often loath to alert authorities to un-safe or unfair working conditions for fear of be-ing deported, but several lawmakers want to make it clear that every worker in the borough has the same rights.

State Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) hosted Immi-grants Rights Awareness Day at the Richmond Hill Library Sunday.

“This is a huge issue for Queens. This is the immi-grant capital of America,” Lancman said. “Many im-migrants are not familiar

with their rights because they probably come from a place where work place safety is not a priority, but we wanted to do something to raise awareness.”

City Comptroller John Liu and representatives from the U.S. Department of Labor joined Lancman at the street-side table to snag passers-by who might

otherwise be wary of con-tact with any government entity.

“One obstacle is get-ting the immigrant com-munity to understand that there are parts of the gov-ernment that are there to assist them and will not re-port them to other parts of the government,” Lancman said.

For instance, if a work-er complains about work-ing conditions to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the administration will not re-port their immigration sta-tus to another government agency.

It is important to get

William Harfmann (l.), area manager for the U.S. Census Bureau, shows off variations of the census form in different languages as (l. to r.) Councilman Peter Koo, Assemblywoman Grace Meng and Chris Kui, executive director of Asian Americans for Equality, look on. The Asian population in the borough increased more than 57 percent between 2000 and 2010.

Asian residents grow as whites leave boroBY HOWARD KOPLOWITZ

Queens has grown

more diverse over the last 10 years, with the Asian and Hispanic populations rising while whites and blacks are fleeing the bor-ough, according to census data released last week.

The Asian population in Queens increased 57.4 percent between 2000 and 2010. The borough now has more than half a million Asians compared to 391,500 in 2000.

The census data re-leased last Thursday only recorded six Asian ethnici-ties: Indians, Chinese, Fili-pinos, Japanese, Koreans and Vietnamese. Asians who did not fit into any of those six ethnicities repre-sented the largest explosion in the Asian population, with a nearly 97 percent in-crease.

In 2000, “other Asians,” which include Bangladesh-is, Cambodians, Laotians and Malaysians, among other ethnicities, com-prised 41,545 residents of Queens while 81,821 were counted in last year’s cen-sus.

Among the six Asian ethnicities, the borough’s Chinese population grew the most with a 43 percent increase. Some 140,000 Chi-nese called Queens home in 2000 compared to 200,205 as of last year’s census.

Both the Japanese and

Filipino populations in the borough increased by 25 percent.

The Korean population rose by more than 3 percent — from 62,130 residents in 2000 to 64,107 in 2010 — while the Vietnamese pop-ulation rose by 9 percent from 3,269 to 3,566.

The Hispanic and La-tino populations grew by 10 percent between 2000 and 2010, due to a large increase in the Mexican population.

There were 55,481 Mex-icans living in Queens, ac-cording to the 2000 census, while 92,835 Mexicans now live in the borough — a 67 percent increase.

Both the borough’s Puerto Rican and Cuban populations decreased.

There were 108,661 Puerto Ricans in Queens in 2000 and 102,881 in 2010 — a 5.3 percent drop. The Cu-ban population decreased by nearly 14 percent from 12,793 residents in 2000 to 11,020 in 2010.

Queens residents who defined themselves as “other Hispanic or Latino” grew by more than 7 per-cent from 2000-10.

Hispanic or Latino residents who were not from Mexico, Puerto Rico or Cuba numbered 379,670 in 2000 compared to 407,014 in 2010.

Both the borough’s white and black populations dropped. Whites recorded

Drink mogul speaks at SJUVitaminwater founder Rapole gives commencement at alma mater

BY JOE ANUTA The St. John’s Univer-

sity graduate who crated a multibillion-dollar bever-age company returned to his alma mater Sunday to impart three nuggets of simple wisdom to the class of 2011.

Michael Rapole, the founder of the company that produces Vitaminwa-ter, gave the commence-ment address to roughly 2,800 graduates and 20,000 spectators who sat through the intermittent drizzle on the university’s lawn shortly after he was given an honorary doctorate in commercial sciences.

“There’s something about ‘Doc’ Mike Rapole that doesn’t sound right just now,” he said with a self-deprecating humor that would characterize much of his speech. “Does this mean I get to prescribe my own medication?”

Rapole was honored for his quick ascent into success, but the university also awarded a St. John’s legend with the St. Vincent

de Paul Medal.Lou Carnesecca have

served the university for 50 years as the longtime bas-ketball coach and later as-sistant to the president.

Carnesecca was retir-ing from his storied coach-ing career around the same time Rapole was getting his degree.

Rapole graduated from St. John’s 20 years earlier with a degree in sports administration, although according to the entrepre-neur, he was not the best student.

“I’m also glad there was not a background check or a look into my transcripts,” he said.

Rapole graduated with a 2.0 grade-point average, but nevertheless joined the ranks of entrepreneurs, like dropouts Steve Jobs, Richard Branson and Bill Gates, who seemed to have found far more success out-side the classroom.

And Rapole stressed

Graduates of St. John’s University class of 2011 walk up to receive their diplomas during the com-mencement ceremony Sunday. Photo by Ken Maldonado

State Assemblyman Rory Lancman (c.) and city Comptroller John Liu (third from r.) get the message out about immigrant worker rights in Richmond Hill. Photo courtesy Rory Lancman




Lawmakers affi rm immigrant rights

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5Grover Cleveland, John Adams rescuedRidgewood, Ozone Park high schools with low graduation rates will stay open after major changes

BY JOE ANUTA

Two underperform-ing schools in western and southern Queens will be re-ceiving millions of dollars in federal aid but will pay for it with major changes.

Grover Cleveland HS in Ridgewood and John Ad-ams HS in Ozone Park will both be getting $2 million annually as part of the fed-eral government’s School Improvement Grants pro-gram.

“To keep these schools open was the first priority,” said state Sen. Joseph Add-abbo (D-Howard Beach), whose district encompass-es both institutions. “We’re going to make these better schools.”

After both were listed as two of 54 underperform-ing high schools in the city, the city Department of Edu-cation informed them last week that they would be

receiving guidance under what is called the restart model.

The federal govern-ment, which devised the plan, aims to improve the school’s performance with millions in financial aid and by partnering each school with a nonprofit, which Addabbo said will give each school the indi-vidual and tailored atten-tion it needs.

“What I like about it is the input for each school is different,” he said. “It’s not a cookie-cutter program.”

The partnerships will hopefully strengthen the curriculum, develop aca-demic supports for students and help teachers improve practice, according to the DOE.

The city is currently in a request for proposal phase, which means that no specific nonprofits have been selected to help Gro-

ver Cleveland, at 21-27 Him-rod St., or John Adams, at 101-01 Rockaway Blvd.

“I think it’s a welcome program and it is a relief that they are not trying to close the school,” said

City Councilwoman Eliza-beth Crowley (D-Middle Village), whose district encompasses Grover Cleve-land High School.

But one part of the plan is set in stone: Teach-

ers and staff will get to keep their jobs.

That was hardly a cer-tainty in the weeks leading up to last week’s decision.

Teachers and students from Grover Cleveland HS

had appealed to the DOE to implement the least drastic changes to their school, ac-cording to Brian Gavin, the union representative for the school.

Last month it appeared that even the best-case sce-nario would have ousted the principal and at most 50 percent of the teachers, but this particular type of restart model has exceeded the wishes of the staff.

The principal, Domin-ick Scarola, who would have been booted under other versions of the restart method, will also stay.

Scarola has already been implementing chang-es to his school that cor-respond with some of the suggestions in the restart plan.

He started a ninth-grade academy, which iso-lates the students in that grade from the rest of the

Students and faculty of Grover Cleveland High School, who gathered with City Councilwomen Elizabeth Crowley and Diane Reyna earlier this month to welcome a new greenhouse, will get to stay in their

BY HOWARD KOPLOWITZ

The former clubhouse manager for the New York Mets was charged in Queens Criminal Court last week with stealing nearly $2.3 million worth of Mets memorabilia, including autographed jerseys, bats and baseballs belonging to the Flushing team, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

Charlie Samuels, 57, of Arverne, began his career with the Mets in 1976 and was made equipment man-ager in 1983 before being named clubhouse manager and traveling secretary, Brown said.

“He had probably one of the best jobs that a sports

enthusiast could have and he threw it all away,” Brown said during a news conference at his office May 11, where two jerseys Samuels allegedly stole — a 1986 jersey signed by mem-bers of the Mets’ champi-onship team and a special 2001 jersey signed by Mets players to commemorate Sept. 11, 2001 — were on display. “His alleged greed got the better of him.”

The jerseys had an appraised value of $7,500 apiece, Brown said.

Brown said Samuels had 1,673 Mets items worth an estimated $2.4 million stored in a friend’s Con-necticut home, including 507 jerseys, 304 hats, 828 balls, 22 helmets, 10 bags of

equipment and two storage boxes.

The DA said there was no evidence that Samuels sold any of the property and that prosecutors sur-mised he was saving the memorabilia to fund his retirement.

“He was holding it as his own private collection,” Brown said.

Charges were filed against Samuels, who was fired by the Mets in Novem-ber, after the team became suspicious of his reim-bursement requests.

Major League Baseball was investigating Samu-els before turning the case over to the Queens district attorney’s office.

Mets clubhouse manager took $2.3M in team artifacts: DA

NYHQ prez touts staff, $210M wing in Flushing

BY CONNOR ADAMS SHEETS

New York Hospital Queens invited the public to its annual State of the Hospital address last week, during which its leaders spoke of the technologies and techniques that are keeping them at the cutting edge of medicine, from robotic surgery to elec-tronic record-keeping.

The nonprofit private hospital, at 56-45 Main St. in Flushing, faces myriad chal-lenges, but it continues to innovate and ex-pand in order to maintain its stature as one of the most advanced hospitals in Queens.

NYHQ President and CEO Stephen Mills emceed the event, discussing the past year of triumphs and challenges at the hospital, and he trotted out a series of top doctors and specialists, who explained the lifesaving work they do every day.

The hospital’s most visible accom-plishment over the past 12 months was the opening in June of its new $210 million “west wing” building, which Mills called

“the total package.” The construction of the building was a large gamble in the down economy, Mills said, but the higher level of care it enables the hospital to pro-

New York Hospital Queens President and CEO Stephen Mills speaks about the state of the Flushing institution during his annu-al address on its triumphs and tribulations.

Photo by Connor Adams Sheets

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Walder wants LIRR to do Amtrak track workBY RICH BOCKMANN

The trains are run-ning back on schedule, but the ride for Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road is still a bit bumpy.

On May 8, an Amtrak train traveling in one of the four East River tunnels derailed, closing the tun-nel and forcing the LIRR to cancel about 25 percent of its trains during morn-ing and evening rush hours from Sunday through last Thursday.

Amtrak owns the tun-nels, and its union employ-ees have the exclusive right through their collective bargaining agreement to perform service and main-tenance work in the tun-nels. Through the terms of its contract with Amtrak, the LIRR is then billed for this work.

In a letter Friday to Amtrak CEO Joseph Board-man, Metropolitan Trans-

portation Authority CEO Jay Walder cited four other incidents reaching back to March and his concerns over safety issues.

He expressed a need to immediately address the accumulation of pooling water and clogged drains in the tunnel and went fur-ther to state the necessity to revise protocol between the two entities.

“While the recent in-cidents in the East River tunnels have caused some to raise questions about the institutional arrangements between our organizations, my focus is solely on work-ing constructively to expe-ditiously identify solutions for the many customers and employees of Amtrak, New Jersey Transit and LIRR who depend on the East River tunnels every day,” he wrote.

“However, if it would facilitate a solution, or if Amtrak is unable to com-

mit to an action plan to ad-dress these issues, we are prepared to negotiate the necessary amendments to our agreements on an expe-dited basis that will allow the LIRR to assume main-tenance responsibilities for all four East River tun-nels,” Walder wrote.

The day before, state Sen. Charles Fuschillo (R-Merrick) wrote to Walder: “While the LIRR cooper-ates with Amtrak on some maintenance and repair projects, it ultimately has no authority over mainte-nance operations that di-rectly affect LIRR service. The time has come for the MTA/LIRR to maintain the rails in and out of Penn Station.”

On Tuesday, Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole said there were still internal discussions being held at Amtrak to determine which company would be responsible for the mainte-

nance work.He said a broken rail

was the cause for the lat-est derailment, which sent five cars off the tracks. Difficulties working in the tight quarters of the tunnel while replacing damaged ties, repairing the tracks and rerailing the cars kept delaying normal service to the tunnel.

Regular service even-tually returned to the LIRR early Friday morning and trains ran on schedule dur-ing the morning commute. A signal problem Friday afternoon caused delays for the evening commute, but trains have been running on time since.


Passengers await the arrival of a train to Penn Station at the Bayside Long Island Rail Road station last week.

Photo by Rich Bockmann

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Car rams into boro biz, which opens next day

FOREST HILLS — A car slammed into a 60-year-old business on Metropolitan Avenue early Sunday morning, shattering windows and denting the metal security gate, the owner of the store said.

At about 2:17 a.m., a livery cab driver and another car collided near 71st Avenue, according to Michael Lieberman, who owns Jones Surgical Co.

One of the cars veered onto the side-walk and smashed into the front of the store, he said.

No one was seriously injured, but po-lice said one of the drivers was charged with a DWI, Lieberman said.

The car caused thousands of dollars worth of damage, but Lieberman had his business open again by Monday morning.

AUBURNDALE — A Flushing man was arrested two weeks ago for allegedly impersonating an officer to settle a dis-pute, the Queens district attorney’s office said.

Peter Germanis, 53, of Auburndale Lane, was arraigned May 4 on a criminal impersonation charge for the incident that took place April 28 around 5:05 p.m., ac-cording to the Queens DA’s office.

A man got into a verbal dispute with Germanis at the corner of Auburndale Lane and Gladwin Avenue, when the sus-pect pulled out a police badge and said he was an officer, the criminal complaint said. Germanis, who has never been a member of the NYPD, allegedly then got into his vehicle and drove away from the scene, according to the complaint.

An officer recovered the badge from the defendant who told him he received it from a police officer friend, the criminal complaint said.

Man from Flushing impersonated cop: DA

Body found floating near Throng’s Neck

BAY TERRACE — A grim discovery was made under the towers of the Throgs Neck Bridge May 11. The body of a white male was found floating in the water at about 8:52 a.m. near the intersection of the Clearview Expressway and Willets Point Boulevard in the confines of the 109th Pre-cinct, police said.

An NYPD Harbor Patrol unit spotted an unconscious and unresponsive person in the water and took him to 601 Totten Road where emergency medical services were waiting, according to the police.

Once there, the man was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.

On Friday, a spokesman for the city Office of Chief Medical Examiner said the autopsy had been inconclusive and the cause of death had not been determined. No identification had been made and the case is pending further study, the spokes-man said.

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BY JOE ANUTA

Yet another car smashed into a Long Is-land City commercial block early Saturday morning after careening down an off-ramp of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge.

The Volkswagen crashed into a line of con-crete barriers along Queens Plaza South between Cres-cent and 27th streets that was installed by the city Department of Transporta-tion after the second fatal crash at the same spot.

“This ongoing situa-tion is intolerable and inex-cusable,” state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) said in a statement. The lawmaker held a news conference af-ter the second accident to call on the city DOT to fix the off-ramp.

“Obviously, whatever safety measures DOT has taken failed to improve safety at this location,” he said. “For DOT to avoid responsibility and instead blame the drivers is unac-ceptable.”

The latest crash oc-curred at about 6 a.m., when the Volkswagen was traveling at a high rate of speed while exiting the bridge and hit the concrete barrier, landing on top of a livery cab and striking scaffolding meant to repair damage from the last crash, police said.

The driver and passen-ger of the Volkswagen were taken to Cornell Hospital

with minor injuries, the livery cab driver and pas-senger were not injured.

Gianaris said the three accidents were no co-incidence.

But in each case the driver of a Volkswagen was was involved in the crash.

On March 31, a car smashed into two store-fronts on the block, killing pedestrian Anthony Bus-cemi and severing the arm of the driver.

Then on April 6 an-other driver named Alex-ander Palacio, 39, and a 40-year-old female passen-ger slammed into the same storefronts, and reports said Palacio had also sev-ered his arm.

No one was seriously injured in the latest ac-cident, but workers in the area hoped that the city would fix the problem. The barriers prevented the car from slamming into the row of businesses, which had been hit in the previ-ous incidents.

“They should do some-thing about it,” said Breed Singh, who works at the corner cafe near where three cars in the last two months have missed the road. “The guys who work at night are scared.”

DOT did not respond for comment.

Gianaris sent a letter to DOT after the second ac-cident to request that the agency review all off-ramps to the bridge.

Artist returns favor to BravestAstoria photographer creates calendar featuring city fi refi ghters

Third vehicle crashes on Qnsboro off-ramp

A 2007 Volkswagen careened off the Queensboro Bridge early Saturday and smashed into a concrete barrier along Queens Plaza South between Crescent and 24th streets before landing on top of a livery cab. Photo courtesy Dan Dulligan

BY REBECCA HENELY

When Astoria resident Katherine Kostreva takes pictures of shirtless fire-fighters in New York City and the rest of country for her self-published calen-dars, she is doing it to say thanks.

“I was in a car accident when I was 16 and broke both my legs and my arms. Firefighters extricated me from the wreckage and saved my legs,” Kostreva said in an e-mail. “I vowed with each step I take, I would give back to these brave individuals.”

From 2009-11, Kost-reva, who has lived in As-toria for the last five years, has taken photos of well-toned city firefighters and published them in a “City of the Brave: Firefighters of NYC” calendar, which she prints herself through her company, On Point Publishing. The calendar raises money for the El-

sasser Fund, which helps the families of firefighters who die outside the line of duty.

This year she is taking the project national with a calendar for 2012 called “Nation’s Bravest: Fire-fighters Unite,” which will be published in August. Kostreva has taken photos of firefighters showing off their chests as well as their special skills in Philadel-phia, St. Louis and San An-tonio.

“These firefighters are brave and love what they do, preferring no other profes-sion,” Kostreva said. “And each comes with a killer smile and personality.”

Kostreva chooses the calendars through send-ing out memos to fire de-partments and firefighter unions. Firefighters who are interested in being a Mr. July or Mr. November, although right now the models are nicknamed af-ter their city, must answer

a sheet of questions such as “Why did you become a firefighter?” and “Why should you be selected to represent your city?”

After speaking with the firefighters over the phone, Kostreva makes a selection based on phy-sique, but also personality and what one does when he’s not a firefighter, such as volunteer work and oth-er hobbies.

Kostreva describes the shoots, which are also at-tended by a photographer, as “spontaneous” and “re-laxed.”

“We all meet during the morning, get to know each other ... then we go to various landmarks across the city,” she said. “We also find a fun spot to interview the firefighter for inclusion in the video and shoot.”

A video for the cal-endar’s “Mr. New York,” 27-year-old Phil Silvester of Brooklyn, shows the fire-fighter walking around the

city, jogging, jumping rope and tossing around a rugby ball.

For the national calen-dar, Kostreva is teaming up with popular women’s mag-azine Cosmopolitan. She said she has few details on the partnership, but they are working on an online travel website where fans of the calendar can vote on their favorite firefighter. At the end of the year, the one with the most votes will be dubbed “The Nation’s Brav-est.”

Kostreva said family members of the firefighters love the calendar.

“They fully support them and are proud that they participate in the name of charity,” she said.

Reach reporter Re-becca Henely by e-mail at [email protected] or by phone at 718-260-4564.

Astorian Katherine Kostreva’s “Nation’s Bravest” calendar features firefighters from around the United States. Phil Silvester (l.), a.k.a. “Mr. New York,” comes from Brooklyn. Photo courtesy Kostreva

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Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone):

We are getting a lot of feedback with regards to the Commu-nity Board 7 meeting Malba Gardens Civic Association

President Alfredo Centola attended last month. As per our conversation with your chief of staff, we were told the councilman spoke to city Depart-ment of Transportation Queens Com-missioner Maura McCarthy about the trial one-way westbound conversion at 5th Avenue from 147th Street to the Whitestone Expressway service road. It was to be on a trial basis and that she had no objection to it.

Then at the meeting, as you know, CB 7 Chairman Eugene Kelty announced that McCarthy was not in

favor of a trial one-way. In speaking with several of our members, who are also members of other local civic asso-ciations, there are several questions being raised that need to be answered and/or clarified.

We do not understand how Mc-Carthy would not contact the coun-cilman about her “sudden change” in position. We appreciate the letter the councilman was about to send Mc-Carthy in order to make the “formal” request and trust he is still willing to send out the request.

As you are aware, state Assem-blyman Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside) was at the meeting and said he would speak to the councilman about re-questing the trial one-way. Kelty suggested that the assemblyman and

councilman contact the commission-er’s office, as it may sway her back to her original agreement with the councilman.

Your attention to this dangerous situation on 5th Avenue is greatly ap-preciated, as is all the hard work and time your office has put into this is-sue.

We look forward to meeting with you in order to get some insight as to what actualy transpired and what the next course of action will be.

Laurie ReeganSecond Vice President

Malba Gardens Civic AssociationWhitestone

A NEW DAY IN NY POLITICS

Now that the results are in from the first national census of the 21st century, the state’s political bosses are salivating at the thought of redrawing district lines in a manner that will further partisan interests. Elected of-ficials believe gerrymandering is a legitimate part of the democratic process.

We disagree.Gerrymandering is the corrupt practice of redrawing

district lines to protect incumbents and further partisan-ship. The lines are drawn without respect to geography and common sense. In the city and state, Republicans and Democrats have engaged in this backroom political ma-nipulation.

In a letter to the editor published last week, Patricia Dolan, president of the Queens Civic Congress, said the time has come to put an end to gerrymandering. We agree. The practice disenfranchises voters and contributes to a feeling of cynicism about the electoral process.

The state Senate has passed a resolution that would create a nonpartisan redistricting commission after the next census — 10 years from now. New York voters cannot wait that long.

WELL DONE, MR. TSHAKA

One of the privileges of being the hometown news-paper of northeast Queens is the opportunity to celebrate the achievements of people like Mandingo Tshaka. In June, Tshaka, a Baysider, will travel to Albany where he will be honored by the University of the State of New York’s Board of Regents for his contributions to the education of African and African diaspora history and culture.

Tshaka, 80, a well-known community activist, has been named the first recipient of the Sanford and Hines Families Award for Study and Research in the African Experience in New York State, the Americas and the Diaspora.

But that is only part of Tshaka’s story. He has also fought for the rights of the native Americans who were the first to call this area home. In his own words, in the 1980s the former doo-wop singer became “a force to be reckoned with,” chasing drug dealers out of minority neighborhoods with a machete.

For decades he has been the voice for people who had no voice and a fighter for the causes he believed in.

Congratulations, Mandingo, and on behalf of the peo-ple of Queens, thank you.

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Korean merchants in Flushing must fi nd funds for English signs

Regarding the May 5 TimesLedger Newspapers article “Signage fix eludes

leaders,” isn’t it time we stopped kidding about “poor merchants” who “cannot afford” to change their signs to conform with the state law passed in the early 1900s, which says that all signs must be promi-nently in English?

If I did not know enough Koreans well enough to be invited to their homes and call them friends, I might, as too many other Americans do, think of Koreans as being all the same as the worst of them. To those Americans,

all Jews are Shylocks, all Italians are Mafia and all Muslims are Osama bin Laden. For many, if not most of us, our forebears were reviled when they came to this country with ethnic slurs.

It is neither national-ity nor religion which is involved in your article. It is human traits which can be universally condemned: lack of consideration, selfishness, demands for “rights” without responsi-bilities.

America provides much for those who choose to come here from abroad. Our country has always assumed, as shown by its

actions, that those who come here will either be-come citizens and do their part or go back to their own country if they see that this is not what they thought it was. Everyone gets the use of free public libraries with books in their native lan-guages, free English lessons provided by volunteers, public schools, low-cost public housing subsidized by American taxpayers and hospital emergency rooms. All groups have their own associations, which can help them adjust.

To ask for special priv-ileges beyond those given to all, at taxpayer expense, is chutzpah — to use a Yid-

dish word now adopted by the English language — or as we used to say, “The gall of a brass monkey” or, “Some nerve!”

The Korean business-men who have conspicuous Korean signs with little or no English have known for a long time that they are breaking the state law passed in the early 1900s. If they put aside $1 a day, by the end of a year they would have $365 which could go to-ward changing the sign. If they have enough money to pay a landlord more money than a local flourishing store which serves the com-munity, surely they have enough to afford a sign in

English with subordinate Korean.

Instead, they go in and out of business with stupe-fying swiftness and regu-larity, only to be replaced by other Korean stores that repeat the same experience. What had always been a stable commercial and residential area working together has been destabi-lized by so many who have chosen to remain foreign-ers in their chosen land.

I invite anyone inter-ested in checking out the situation to come once a month to Northern Boule-vard from around 155th to 162nd streets and look at both sides of the street to

see that it is unrecognizable from one month to another. Why? These stores mostly have no parking and do not serve the community — a violation of both the zoning resolution and the state law on signage.

To propose, especially in these days of devastating budget cuts in education and other essential ser-vices, that our legislators be given money to help the poor Korean businessmen to stop breaking the law is almost unbelievable.

Marjorie FerrignoFlushing

Mayor Michael Bloomberg re-vealed his budget for the city and he

is still insisting that he will have to lay off nearly 6,000 teachers.

What happened to that $3 billion budget surplus that we heard about? Why can’t he apply that money

in lieu of laying off hard-working, dedicated, caring teachers? There is some-thing rotten in the state of Denmark, folks.

The mayor continues to play political footsie with the hardworking teachers, firefighters, police officers and sanitation workers and all the rest of the city’s

workers. It is time for him to stop his political grand-standing and look for alter-nate ways to close the city’s budget deficit without any layoffs of any city workers.

John AmatoFresh Meadows

Mayor should tap into surplus, but not lay off any city teachers

Your recent story about local City Council members re-acting to the mayor’s

proposed budget is inter-esting. While all of them profess the desire to help the middle class by mak-ing cuts, none of them talk about cutting spending.

It would seem to me that if we did not pay our

municipal workers such munificent health benefits, mostly paid for by taxpay-ers, and give such wonder-ful pensions, also paid for by taxpayers, we would have a great deal of money to support our fire houses, library system and other areas the mayor is propos-ing cuts for.

When legislators talk

about “wasteful spending,” they might consider pen-sions, salaries and benefits to the municipal employees who are able to retire at an early age as one area in which to save money and help their constituents.

Kenneth Lloyd BrownForest Hills

Keep budget by cutting pensions

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CORRECTIONSIn last week’s Focus on Queens section, Judge Steve Paynter was misidentified in one of the pictures. We regret the error. In an article last week about Bayside activist Mandingo Tshaka, Tshaka’s age was reported incorrectly. He is 80. A story last week on job opportunities at Aqueduct Race Track reported an error regarding available jobs. The jobs are permanent positions. Due to a production error in several May 12-18 editions of TimesLedger Newspapers, an incorrect photo of Leon Nascimbene was printed. The man in the photo was Leon Nascimbene Jr. The correct photo is to the right.

JUST JAZZSpecial guest vocalist Antoinette Montague performs “A Blues” with the Queens Jazz Orchestra during a performance at Flushing Town Hall. The 16-piece orchestra with Montague was lead by the originating and continuing artistic musical director and conductor, Jimmy “Little Bird” Heath. Photo by Norm Harris

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Queens is coming into its own. It has made an impressive transition from a

bedroom community for Manhattan into a vibrant, diversified borough on its own merit. It’s no longer necessary to travel into Manhattan to work, shop, eat, be entertained, etc. — that is, not unless you want to. For special occasions, the city is still the best, but for regular lifestyle events check out the beautiful, bountiful borough known as Queens.

The superstition of things happening in threes is still proving it-

self. The first funeral was for Michael Riccato’s son Mikie, the second one was for Carolynn Karoff’s sister, Linda Bauer, and now the third one was for Geraldine Spinella’s mom, Dorothy Trypuc of Douglaston, a member of St. Anastasia’s Church Lei-sure Club. My condolences to Geraldine, her sister Carolynn Meenan and the rest of their family. I will add their mom’s name to our prayer list. That list is getting so long I’m going to have to start to go to bed two hours earlier in order to have time to say all my prayers and remember ev-eryone before I tuck myself in.

On May 10, the Queens Economic Development Corp. held its ninth Queens Taste of the World and welcomed everyone to a sumptuous celebration of culinary diversity held in

the Caesar’s Club at Citi Field. The Queens Iconic Restaurant Awards went to Lillian Gavin’s Dazies and Dominic Bruccoleri’s Papazzio. They were pre-sented by Con Edison.

There were so many wonderful foods and drinks to sample you didn’t know where to begin and had to be of pretty stern stuff in order to try and sample even half of them, much less all. The QEDC provides many programs and ser-vices. Its newest program is “The Entrepreneur’s Space,” which provides a home to more than 100 bud-ding businesses.

A commercial kitchen is open 24/7 to food manu-facturers, caterers and bak-ers at 36-46 37th St. in Long Island City. This facility is open to any qualified food business seeking to bring its operation to the next level. In addition to which,

the space also offers access to business counseling, technical assistance and networking opportunities for all clients. All in all, a fun evening that is — if you consider what must have been a gain of 10 pounds — fun.

May 11 was also high on the entertainment list. The Queens Chamber of Commerce held a business card exchange at Strawber-ry’s Sports Grill in Doug-laston, owned by Darryl

Strawberry. It’s another fun place. It has a different, money-saving special every night and its daily happy hour is one of the best. It provides valet parking as well. Due be sure to put it on your “check it out” list.

Last Thursday night was the annual Queens County Republican Party Spring Dinner and Awards Reception at Terrace on the Park. This year’s honorees

were the Business Man of the Year Tom Belesis, founder and CEO of John Thomas Financial. The Ronald Regan Shining City on a Hill honoree was Aron

Hirtz, CEO of Aron’s Kis-sena Farms; the Abraham Lincoln Leadership honor-ee was Edward Sawehuk, a professional engineer and attorney; the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider hon-oree was City Councilman Dan Halloran. A special Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to state Sen. Frank Padavan, thanking him for all he has done for the people of Queens and the state.

There was a moment of silence when the Queens County Republican Party members fondly remem-bered Marguerite Adams, who was known as the grand dame of the Grand Old Party and they also re-membered another fallen

friend, Gloria Piekarski.There were many

VIPs at the party. This list included but was not lim-ited to Edward Cox, John

Catsimatidis, Betsy Mc-

Caughey, Jay Townesend, Nicole Malliotakis, Rob

Astorino and George

Maragos.Phil Ragusa and Vin-

cent Tabone are to be con-gratulated on arranging a most enjoyable event.

That’s it for this week.I look forward to hear-

ing from you with informa-tion on people, parties and politics or gossip. I like receiving your voice mails at 718-767-6484, faxes at 718-746-0066 and e-mails at [email protected]

Don’t forget to check out the Focus on Queens page.

Till next week, Dee.

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The U.S. Congress has recently passed the Military and Over-seas Voter Empow-

erment Act, whereby state and local ballots have to be ready 45 days before an election so these ballots can be sent to overseas military personnel and returned in a manner that allows suffi-cient time for these ballots to be counted.

One of the main prob-lems in the past has been legal challenges between opposing candidates, espe-cially in primaries, so that ballots cannot be printed

until the court decisions have been rendered as to which candidates will be on the ballot. This means that ballot printing is held up, delaying the process. Therefore, it is important that the Board of Elections be given more time. That would necessitate moving the primary election back to an earlier month.

It will be up to the state Legislature to con-form with the new federal law regarding military voting by passing legisla-tion to make changes in time for the 2012 elections. The election timetable for 2011 is set and will remain in place. It should be noted that during the American Civil War, then-President Abraham Lincoln made sure that military service members were able to vote in the 1864 presidential

election. Today, our elected officials can do no less. Our voting process should be improved.

With special elections coming up in the 23rd and 27th state Assembly Dis-tricts in Rockaway Beach and Flushing, there is in-creased speculation as to when Gov. Andrew Cuomo will schedule these races. Will it be before July or in September? The prospec-tive candidates are await-ing this information so they can actively start pre-paring for the campaigns.

Focusing on the 27th Assembly District, where Nettie Mayersohn resigned after serving 38 years in the Legislature — which, interestingly, is the same amount of time served by former state Sen. Frank Padavan — two candidates seem to be emerging at this

time.On the Democratic

side, Michael Simanowitz is the leading candidate. As a graduate of Queens College who majored in political science, he has been a mem-ber of Mayersohn’s staff for 15 years. He is presently the chief of staff. In terms of is-sues, Simanowitz believes that constituent services are most important within the district by providing assistance in dealing with government agencies and other matters.

He mentioned child abuse prevention as an important matter that if elected he intends to deal with in the future. He also mentioned improving edu-cation procedures from the standpoint of increas-ing technology tools in the classroom.

The Republican candi-

date who will most likely be opposing Simanowitz is Marco DeSena, who has a rather impressive back-ground considering he has a master’s degree from the London School of Econom-ics. He has also been an adjunct college professor at Baruch College.

DeSena has been active in politics by participating in some recent major cam-paigns, including serving as campaign manager for David Malpass, who ran in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate last year. He also served on Rudy Giu-liani’s presidential com-mittee in 2008 as deputy director of policy research and assistant speechwriter. He is presently a communi-cations consultant.

As for issues, if elected DeSena intends to con-centrate on improving the

economy, especially in regards to increasing job growth. He believes that ethics in state government is important. In education, he wants to see some sys-tem developed where the best teachers are retained in the city public school sys-tem regardless of seniority.

The registration of this district favors Democratic candidates, but in a special election with a low voter turnout, it is sometimes difficult to predict what the election results will be.

Both candidates have stated a willingness to de-bate each other about the is-sues confronting the voters of their district and Queens as well. In this year of few elections, these special elec-tions will be watched with interest as voting trends leading to the general elec-tions next year develop.

Gov’t must fi nd better way to get ballots out to militaryWilliamLewis

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In what is known as the Webster-Hayes debate, Daniel Webster argued for “the supremacy of

the federal government.” With all of his notable abili-ties and accomplishments, Webster unfortunately did not achieve his hope of suc-ceeding one day to the pres-idency. He was, however, in negotiations over the Web-ster-Ashburton Treaty in 1843 to achieve what turned out to be his greatest diplo-matic success. This treaty dealt with our country’s northeast boundary.

To do justice to Web-ster’s role in our country’s

history would, at best, be a monumental task. His role in politics and public ser-vice ranged from 1805-22. After being educated at Ex-eter and Dartmouth colleg-es, he studied law, which he briefly taught. He was then admitted to the New Hamp-shire bar in 1805. His law practice was his entrée to political activities and soon he represented his home state in Congress. But he made it evident that he op-posed the War of 1812.

Webster made the move to Boston and it was evident he had earned the position as the nation’s leading attorney. This, in turn, was to lead him to the role as our nation’s greatest orator of his era. Notable at that time was his deliv-ery of his speech on the bi-centennial of the founding of Plymouth, and the re-sponse was the same when

he spoke at the dedication of the Bunker Hill monu-ment in 1825.

After his election to Congress in 1822, he was to serve in the U.S. Senate for

a good number of years and joined the Senate from 1827 to the 1840s. He would then desert his early free trade interests for the “tariff” as a national interest.

In his 40 years of ser-vice and as a leader of the Whig Party, he also served as a leader for the modern-ization and individual in-terests of New England.

As he would say, “Lib-erty and union, now and forever, one and insepa-rable.”

One of the most im-portant exchanges in Sen-ate history took place in 1830, when Webster was to argue for the supremacy of the federal government. At that time Webster, and President Andrew Jackson were united in their opposi-tion to nullification despite a long history of disagree-ment on almost every other issue. Webster’s greatest

diplomatic achievement occurred in 1843, when as secretary of state under Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tyler, Webster was to negotiate the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.

Later, he served once again in Congress in the Senate, where he worked diligently on the Compro-mise of 1850. Opposed as he was on the issue of slav-ery, he accommodated the Southerners because of his belief in the preservation of the Union as the more im-portant cause.

From 1850 until his death, Webster was to hold the position of secretary of state under President Mil-lard Fillmore. Webster died Oct. 24, 1852, in his home.

Joan Brown Wetting-feld is an historian and free-lance writer.

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Daniel Webster, photo from Library of congress

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sion of what exactly the Planning Commission ap-proved, but he added that he would only back it if the commercial overlay on the two residences had indeed been stricken from the plan. In such local land-use votes, a convention called “home rule” suggests that the opinion of the Council member whose district con-tains the area in question will usually prevail.

“I would support the general notion, but I would still want the concessions from the builder for aes-thetic issues that were raised by the homeown-ers — whether that means getting a deed restriction or otherwise — includ-ing what their view of the building would be like and as far as a porch where people could look over their properties,” Halloran said. “I’m not going to let things like that happen.”

But Avella is not happy with the commission’s vote to support Franco’s propos-al, even with such amend-ments. Only one of the 13 commissioners, Anna Hayes Levin — Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s appointee to the body — voted against the plan, according to Avella. The number of commis-sioners in attendance at the May 11 meeting could not be determined.

“Shame on the City Planning Commission and its members for ignoring the overwhelming con-cerns of the Whitestone community in opposing this application,” Avella said in a statement. “It is beyond belief that the city would erode the Whitestone rezoning which we fought extremely hard to achieve only several years ago.”

In the months since Franco purchased the ag-ing White House restaurant from its longtime principal

owner, Matty Geoghegan, the proposal has become a major point of controversy in the neighborhood.

The zoning change would allow certain types of two-story residential and commercial buildings to be built on the entire east end of the block of 154th Street

from 10th to 11th avenues.In 2009, Franco, the

former proprietor of Caffé on the Green in Bayside, lost the license for the city Parks Department conces-sion, which is now oper-ated as Valentino’s on the Green.

A lawyer for Franco has said the project is ex-pected to break ground this fall or in early 2012, and that construction could be completed as early as fall

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One Queens resident said she was having trou-ble paying her bill. Carol Courtines, a retired school teacher living on a pension, said her bill had gone up from $62.94 from the second quarter of 2008 to $366.74 in first quarter of 2011.

Corey Bearak spoke on behalf of the Queens Cham-ber of Commerce in opposi-tion of the increase.

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lions of dollars to cover costs outside the water system and the outrageous practice of the city charg-ing itself rent to operate its water and sewer system make clear how the Water Board functions as a cash cow for City Hall.”

Holloway said that more than $200 million, or 7 percent, of the DEP’s fis-cal year 2012 budget will be paid to the city and that, based on a comparison of 56 major markets, the figure was justifiable.

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“These arrests are a chilling reminder that evil lurks even in a quiet, sleepy neighborhood like Whites-tone,” Halloran said. “The potential for ‘home-grown’ terrorists in our backyard is especially frightening, and a reminder that near-ly a decade after Sept. 11, there are still terrorists in our midst who yearn for our destruction.”

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In a conversation seven months ago with an NYPD undercover agent, Ferhani said, “We will blow up a synagogue in Manhat-tan and take out the whole building,” the DA said. The defendants also talked about blowing up a church in Queens, the complaint said.

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BY RICH BOCKMANN

Year after year, the communities of Little Neck and Douglaston simultane-ously pay respect to those who have died serving in the country’s armed forces while at the same time ush-ering in the summer season with all the appropriate cel-ebration and festivity.

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at 2 p.m. May 30 at Jayson Avenue and Northern Bou-levard and run down the boulevard to St. Anastasia Roman Catholic Church in Little Neck.

“In the past we’ve had between 5,000 and 10,000 people marching and the sidewalks are lined for the whole route of the parade,” Bishop said.

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Bishop said he expects the costs for this year’s parade to reach approxi-mately $25,000, and he in-vited those interested in donating to attend upcom-ing fund-raisers at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at 300 Steamboat Road in Kings Point, L.I., May 29 at

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Errol Wilson, a Queens resident and 18-year veter-an of the city Department of Transportation, was killed in an accident while con-ducting late-night repair work Tuesday on the Cross Island Parkway near North-ern Boulevard in Bayside, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday.

The mayor and DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan issued a joint press release Tuesday morning, announcing the death of the 59-year old highway repairer and com-mending him for his ser-vice and dedication. Wil-son is survived by his wife Valerie White, son Errol Jr. and daughter Tanya, the statement said.

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ic reminder that so many dedicated, unsung city workers take on dangerous assignments each and ev-ery day to ensure ... our city can run. As I said to Valerie this morning, the thoughts and prayers of a grateful city are with her and all of Errol’s family and friends,” the mayor wrote.

According to the may-or’s statement, the accident involved a DOT vehicle and was still under investiga-tion by the NYPD.

“The entire depart-ment is devastated by Er-rol’s death,” Sadik-Khan said. “He was a respected veteran of the Roadway Repair and Maintenance Division, one of our best workers and a member of the DOT family. The news that we’ve lost Errol breaks our hearts. Valerie and Er-

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She added, “Errol will be sorely missed, and our hearts go out to all who were close to him.”

The NYPD said an un-identified man fitting the description of Wilson was struck at 12:41 a.m. Tues-day morning by a 2000 MAC truck. The man was taken to North Shore University medical center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, said the police. The NYPD suspected no crimi-nality in the incident.


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BY HOWARD KOPLOWITZ The Shinnecock Na-

tion said it has received an offer to build a casino at Belmont Race Track in Nassau, which could put a dent into profits for the Aqueduct racino in Queens that is slated to open in late summer.

Beverly Jensen, a spokeswoman for the Southampton, L.I.-based tribe, said the Shinnecocks have not made a final de-cision on where to build a casino.

The tribe gained fed-eral recognition early last year, which makes it eligi-ble to run a casino.

“We have not decided where to put a casino,” Jensen said, rejecting ru-mors that the Shinnecock were set on building a ca-

sino at Belmont in Elmont, L.I., on the other side of the border from Queens. “We haven’t selected a site yet. It’s been offered to us and we’ve looked at it and we’re making a decision.”

If the Shinnecocks were to build a casino at Belmont, which is only 10 1/2 miles away from Aq-ueduct, it would surely take business away from Genting New York, the de-veloper of the racino at the South Ozone Park track.

While the Shinnecocks are undecided as to where to construct a casino, the tribe has ruled out building one near its reservation in Southampton because it be-lieves the reservation is too small for a gaming parlor.

A Genting spokesman said the company had no comment.

A Belmont casino may be more attractive to south-east Queens residents since the Elmont line has a Long Island Rail Road stop that easily connects it to the Ja-maica LIRR station.

The racino at Aque-duct, called Resorts World New York, is expected to be up and running with 1,600 of 4,500 video lottery termi-nals by late summer.

In the early stages of awarding the VLT contract, the Shinnecock proposed their own plans for a casino at Aqueduct, but the project did not have the blessings of the area’s elected officials.

State Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer (D-Rock-away Beach) said the Shin-necock plan was “too ambi-tious” because it called for table games such as black-jack and roulette.

Tribe mulling plans to open Aqueduct racino rival venue

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Two underperform-ing schools in western and southern Queens will be re-ceiving millions of dollars in federal aid but will pay for it with major changes.

Grover Cleveland HS in Ridgewood and John Ad-ams HS in Ozone Park will both be getting $2 million annually as part of the fed-eral government’s School Improvement Grants pro-gram.

“To keep these schools open was the first priority,” said state Sen. Joseph Add-abbo (D-Howard Beach), whose district encompass-es both institutions. “We’re going to make these better schools.”

After both were listed as two of 54 underperform-ing high schools in the city, the city Department of Edu-cation informed them last week that they would be receiving guidance under

what is called the restart model.

The federal govern-ment, which devised the plan, aims to improve the school’s performance with millions in financial aid and by partnering each school with a nonprofit, which Addabbo said will give each school the indi-vidual and tailored atten-tion it needs.

“What I like about it is the input for each school is different,” he said. “It’s not a cookie-cutter program.”

The partnerships will hopefully strengthen the curriculum, develop aca-demic supports for students and help teachers improve practice, according to the DOE.

The city is currently in a request for proposal phase, which means that no specific nonprofits have been selected to help Gro-ver Cleveland, at 21-27 Him-rod St., or John Adams, at

101-01 Rockaway Blvd.“I think it’s a welcome

program and it is a relief that they are not trying to close the school,” said City Councilwoman Eliza-beth Crowley (D-Middle Village), whose district encompasses Grover Cleve-land High School.

But one part of the

plan is set in stone: Teach-ers and staff will get to keep their jobs.

That was hardly a cer-tainty in the weeks leading up to last week’s decision.

Teachers and students from Grover Cleveland HS had appealed to the DOE to implement the least drastic changes to their school, ac-

cording to Brian Gavin, the union representative for the school.

Last month it appeared that even the best-case sce-nario would have ousted the principal and at most 50 percent of the teachers, but this particular type of restart model has exceeded the wishes of the staff.

The principal, Domin-ick Scarola, who would have been booted under other versions of the restart method, will also stay.

Scarola has already been implementing chang-es to his school that cor-respond with some of the suggestions in the restart plan.

He started a ninth-grade academy, which iso-lates the students in that grade from the rest of the school and gives them more individual instruction. He will be starting a 10th-grade academy next year.

Educators at John Ad-

ams have been taking simi-lar measures, as well as pulling up their graduation rates from previous years.

That proved tougher for the two high schools than others in the borough, according to Gavin, be-cause of the diverse make-up of the student bodies.

In an earlier inter-view, Gavin said that a sub-stantial number of students who do not speak English as a first language typical-ly take five years to gradu-ate, which then makes the school’s rate appear lower.

There is also a high level of absenteeism at the school.

But that is what makes Addabbo a fan of the plan.

“Each school is differ-ent. A school might be un-derperforming for a variety of reasons,” he said. “The restart program evaluates that.”

City Councilman Matthew Eugene (center l.) takes a tour of the St. Albans VA hospital with a veteran.

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The differing funeral traditions in a melting potBY REBECCA HENELY

When attending a funeral for a member of a different religion, the divergent customs and rites may seem intimidating to the visitor who wants to be respectful at a sen-sitive time. But Queens clergy who represent the world’s five major re-ligions say they work to ensure visi-tors to their churches and temples are at ease.

“They are there like anybody else, to offer comfort and solace to the mourners and to show respect for someone’s loved ones,” said Rabbi Jonathan Pearl of the Astoria Center of Israel.

Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Buddhist end-of-life tra-

ditions all involve prayer and a reli-gious service, but the details can be dramatically different, from what the service represents to what is done with the body.

The Rev. Francis Colamaria of the Holy Child Jesus Church in Richmond Hill said that in Catholi-cism, the wake — a ritual before the funeral when mourners meet and view the body — is a time to remem-ber the deceased, but in the ceremo-nial funeral mass mourners pray for the soul of the dead to move out of purgatory and on to heaven.

“We believe once the person dies the soul goes on to another life,” Colamaria said. “We call it eternal life.”

Prayers are sung and said at

Catholic funerals. Communion, us-ing wine and bread that is believed to become the body and blood of Je-sus, is offered. But Colamaria said it is only appropriate to receive if one is a Catholic. The relatives of the de-ceased decide whether the body will be buried or cremated and where, although Colamaria recommends that ashes not be kept at home in an urn but are kept in a place where people do not live.

Pastor Jeanne Warfield of Grace Lutheran Church in Forest Hills described similar traditions at her church. Funerals often include prayers, Bible readings and a ser-mon. Whether or not communion is offered and what is done with the body is decided by the family.

But Warfield said Lutherans consider funerals a time to remem-ber the deceased.

“Also to say some goodbyes, to reflect upon how their presence in this life was valued or affected folks around them,” Warfield said.

While Christian religions in-volve choice when it comes to some rituals, Muslims have specific rules for what is done with the body be-fore and after death. Imam Mohd Qayyoom of the Muhammadi Com-munity Center of Jackson Heights said Muslim funerals are performed soon after a person dies. The body is cleaned and wrapped in a shroud. An imam leads the funeral, usually in a mosque. Prayers are recited


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The state of coping with the loss of a loved one is called bereavement, and there are just as many ways to grieve as there are relationships we have with the ones we love and the different ways we can lose them.

Help can be found in bereavement groups for Chris-tians, Jews, Muslims and Sikhs. There are groups for those who have lost a parent and a spouse. There are be-reavement groups for adults and those for children, and there are groups that meet to discuss the specific issues involved in dealing with the death of someone dear to can-cer, suicide or AIDS.

Groups can be found in a variety of ways, including through hospice services, religious organizations or advo-cacy groups.

One of the primary comforts a bereavement group can offer, according to Walter Fendrich, is a sense of com-munity for those who may feel isolated by their loss and the position they find themselves in afterward.

“Frankly, it seems the more isolated a person feels, the more they need a group to heal,” said Fendrich, who is the bereavement coordinator at Hospice of New York in Long Island City.

“Grief is a normal and natural state of being, not a pathology,” he said. “Those with strong groups of friends and family seem to deal with it best.”

Bereavement groups at Hospice are held twice a month and conducted by facilitators who are trained to consider the different ways people experience loss. Some groups are open, which means members can attend if and when they choose for an indefinite period of time.

Closed groups meet once a week for a period of eight to 10 weeks, and Fendrich said these offer a sense of security when participants see the same people on a regular basis.

The Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens oper-ates a number of both open and closed groups throughout its parishes in both boroughs. Director of Bereavement Services Ingrid Seunarine said she has found that some members begin coming to groups months after suffering their loss and others even begin years afterward.

“Grief has no schedule to it. It has no timetable,” she said.

The Catholic Charity’s groups meet twice a month and though they begin and end with a prayer, Seunarine said they do not teach religion. The groups serve bereaved in-dividuals regardless of faith, culture or gender orientation and offer specialized support groups such as “Lost Mira-cles,” “Children Grieve Too” and “Bereaved Parents.”

Bill Feigelman is a professor of sociology at Nassau Community College who is writing a book on bereavement. He, along with his wife, started the group Long Island Sur-vivors of Suicide, after their son took his own life.

“The uniqueness of suicide bereavement has a num-ber of elements,” Feigelman said. “When people lose a child to cancer or a heart condition, they have a cause — some sort of physical malady. But when a child is lost to suicide, we’re left asking ‘Why?’ People blame themselves. There’s a lot of anger.”

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The perfect send-off to honor lost loved ones

BY VINCE DIMICELI

I’d like to thank every-one for reading this today, and helping me celebrate the craft of writing and giv-ing a eulogy.

Look, I’m not going to sugarcoat this: I give great eulogies. It’s not something that I usually boast about, and it’s certainly not some-thing that I look forward to doing. But when that call comes, and the person on the other end of the line gives me the sad news, I’m confident that I will give the dearly departed the send-off he or she deserves — and leave even the most cynical mourners crying in

the aisles.So here’s a few tips on

how to do the same, from the master craftsman:

• Do your homework: No one person knows ev-erything about the person that has passed — and that includes you. So talk to people, and don’t be afraid to take notes. You’ll be sur-prised by the things you’ll learn from that third cous-in who, it turns out, owes his career in banking to the guy you know couldn’t bal-ance his checkbook. That’s gold, Jerry!

• There’s no “I” in “eu-logy”: Remember: you are not the person who died,

A primer on giving a moving eulogy

and mourners don’t want to hear story after story about your personal relationship with the deceased. If you proof read the eulogy and see “I,” “me,” or “mine” more than three or four times, you might get booed off the podium.

• Four minutes and out: Attention spans are not

as long as they used to be — even when talking about the life of a person who meant so much to so many people. Plus, you’re never going to get the name of everyone in that room into the eulogy, and even if you do, they’ll be so touched by the gesture, they’ll imme-diately tune out. So keep it

short and sweet.• Set aside some time:

This could take all night, so put the kids to bed, grab a cup of coffee, shut off the television, and get to writ-ing. Four minutes speak-ing time is about four pages double-spaced, and it could be the toughest four pages you’ve ever belted out —

even if your a pro like me. So make sure you’ve got enough time to do it.

• Don’t make it a roast: As the old saying goes, eu-logies are easy, comedy is hard. So fight the urge to become Dean Martin when speaking about the beloved. Sure, opening with a joke is a good way to break the ten-sion and to keep you loose, but leave it at that. (One ex-ception: If you’re actually eulogizing Dean Martin.)

• Remember, it’s not an obituary: Leave the facts of life to the newspaper. You’ll do better to speak in gener-alities, with touching anec-dotes mixed in.

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standing up, and mourners are only allowed to say good things about the dead. In Is-lamic tradition, a Muslim is always supposed to stand up at non-Muslim funerals.

Muslims are buried near the place they died with live branches or flow-ers on top of the grave.

“This person was cre-ated from the soil and he is going back to the soil and in the day of judgment he will come again from the soil,” Qayyoom said, describing the prayer Muslims say over the deceased.

Judaism also re-quires that the deceased be cleaned, wrapped in a shroud and buried imme-diately. Pearl said tradi-tionally the body is buried without a casket, although they are sometimes used and are left closed during a funeral out of respect for the dead. Judaism believes in returning the body to the earth, and mourners help bury the body at the cemetery.

“We don’t hide from the immediacy and raw-ness of death,” Pearl said. “We’re encouraged to deal

with it.”For seven days fol-

lowing the death, the fam-ily enters a mourning pe-riod called shiva, in which mourners do not work and follow numerous rituals. Community members often visit and bring food during this time. The remaining 30 days have less restric-tions for the family but are still considered a mourn-ing period.

Hindus have had to adjust their traditions to American life, said Ganapa-thy Padmanabhan, spokes-man for the Ganesh Temple in Flushing. He said Hindu priests in America perform the ceremonial rites for

the body either at a funeral home, where family and friends come to the service, or at a crematorium. Hin-dus are always cremated and their remains are in-terred in water, sometimes sent to the Ganges River in India, which is believed to be holy. Padmanabhan said this is because Hindus be-lieve in reincarnation, and while the soul is immortal, the body is temporary.

The deceased’s son needs to be present at the Hindu funeral, as he will recite prayers yearly in his ancestors’ memories, Padmanabhan said. After the death there is a 12-day morning period, with a cel-

ebration on the 13th day.“The small soul goes

and joins the big soul,” Pad-manabhan said.

Miao Zhong, a monk at the International Buddhist Society in Flushing, said Buddhists also believe in reincarnation.

“For us, death is not the end of life. It is the other new beginning of our next life,” Zhong said.

She said a Buddhist ceremony is led by a monk and includes flowers, fruit, food, incense, candles and a memorial plaque. The plaque is the most impor-tant part of the ceremony and represents how the de-ceased is present. On this

plaque the name of the de-ceased and the officiant is written. The monk leads the family in chanting the holy name of Buddha. After the ceremony, most Buddhists choose to cremate the body, although burial is not un-known. The ashes are often buried under a tree or in a memorial hall.

Zhong said the Bud-dhist ceremony is explained for guests, and visitors do not have to participate in any part of the ceremony if they do not wish to do so.

“I think it’s more im-portant to have them feel comfortable in the funeral service,” she said.


Funeral traditions

As Hindus have moved to America, they have held their end-of-life ceremonies in funeral homes. This picture shows a Hindu funeral at St. Michael’s Cemetery.

Imam Mohd Qayyoom says in Islam it is important to stand when a funer-al passes, even for non-Muslims.

Photo by Christina Santucci

In Catholicism, funerals are considered a time to pray for the soul of the dead to move out of Purgatory and into heaven. Photo by Christina Santucci

at your daughter’s kindergar-ten graduation party. So once you’ve got it all down, do some read-throughs by yourself in the bathroom. Once you’re sure you can get through it without break-

ing down, try it out on someone else, making notes to yourself on the page where to pause, breathe, or look up and smile. Rehearsals show you care.

• Choose the right venue: Be sure to give the eulogy in a con-trolled environment. Waxing po-etic about the beloved on a rainy,

windy day at the cemetery — where everyone is crying before you even start — is no way to pay your last respects. It’s best to be in a place that is air conditioned. And don’t do it without a micro-phone.

• When all else fails, mention flowers: Just sayin’ you should

have it in your back pocket. If you fear your eulogy will bring more disturbed stares than tears, fall back on new life personified by the blooming flowers of spring. They base entire religions on that stuff.

And there is some good news to all this: writing and reading a

eulogy is a cathartic process. In my experience, it helps you mourn your loss, appreciate the life of a loved one even more, and get you moving forward with your life.

So if you ever get that call, don’t be afraid and jump right in. When all is said and done, you’ll be glad you did.


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Death is not a topic many people prefer to dis-cuss. However, discuss-ing funeral planning and making arrangements now can be a smart financial move and one that limits large decisions at a time of heightened emotions.

Every year, millions of people in North America make the decision to pre-plan a funeral. The process is also known as pre-need planning. Individuals can even take out insurance policies that direct benefits to funeral expenses.

The main purpose of pre-need planning is to al-leviate the financial bur-den and decision-making during times of grief and stress. Well-executed plans can make the funeral pro-cess run like a well-oiled machine.

It’s never too early to begin pre-planning a fu-neral. Making a list of in-formation that will go to a trusted family member, executor of one’s estate, or a funeral director is one way to start. Here are some items to include:

• Name• Date of birth• Place of birth• Social Security num-

ber• Location of will• Military service• Place of disposition,

whether a cemetery or cre-matorium

• Organ donation pref-erences

• Funeral and/or wake preferences

• Name of funeral home and director

• Copies of receipts and contracts for any services purchased

• Any other impor-tant information, such as location of safety deposit box information, attorney

names, etc.There are very good

reasons for pre-need plan-ning. All arrangements can be thoroughly consid-ered and spelled out so they meet a person’s desires. If he or she has a preference in cemetery, or prefers to be interred at a mausole-um, these requests can be expressed and not assumed by family members.

Pre-planning also enables a person to shop around for the most afford-able services, caskets and funeral homes. Because the average cost of a fu-neral is between $10,000 to $15,000, it is important to spend money wisely. Pre-planning also helps avoid inflation of costs later on, enabling a person to lock in the cost of services now.

Stress and grief can make family members un-able to cope with decisions during the time of death. As a result, one of the most important reasons for pre-need planning is to make the process one in which close friends and family members can come to grips with the death, rather than having to run around for a few days and make ar-rangements in haste. This way, loved ones can simply remember a person how he or she was, instead of choosing clothing, disposi-tion places, service word-ing, and the like.

A funeral director can walk a person through the process of pre-planning a funeral. He or she is often licensed to sell cemetery plots and can take much of the work out of the process. A community or family-owned business may have a rapport in the area and offer the best deals or the desired level of personal-ized service.

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BY ALLISON PLITT

Currently displaying his artwork in a group show at dm contemporary gallery in Manhattan, Jackson Heights artist Eung Ho Park explores his life existence and his expe-rience as an immigrant through a series of drawings called “Root Series.”

The theme for the drawings developed when the artist was walking through a park in Brook-lyn and found an uprooted tree trunk. Bringing the tree trunk back to his stu-dio, Park contemplated the subject matter in light of his upbringing in Woonchun, South Korea.

“Why this particular shape or form of tree trunk was interesting to me, I fig-ured out later it was shaped like a ginseng root that I’m familiar with in Korea,” Park recounted. “Ginseng is used to make healthy tonic herbs. I grew up eating those ginseng roots because I was a physically weak person when I young-er, so I was encouraged to eat it.”

Describing his drawings in the style of “conceptual minimalism,” Park adheres to the minimalist aesthetic of thin lines to cre-ate the impression of simplicity. In terms of to conceptualism, he focuses his artwork

around the idea of roots and delves into its various meanings.

First, Park tries to convey to the viewer the evolution of life as represented by the cir-cular path of the trunk’s roots.

“Transformation is my way of doing my work at this moment,” he explained. “‘Trans-formation’ meaning how we grow old — from infancy to adolescence to adults

and so forth. Your body changes and your mind changes as well. I think it’s about dealing with death, birth and in-be-tween.”

Park also attempts to express the concept of people being uprooted from their homelands to immigrate to other places. He depicts the struggles of immigrants and he likens their experience to “landing on your two feet

and being expected to walk.”“When I came to the United States in

the early 1970s, there was a TV series called ‘Roots.’ I have the book by Alex Haley and he talks about his ancestors and the generations of slavery,” Park recalled. “My struggle is no comparison to African Americans when they came to America. They came forcefully and my family came freely, but coming here was


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If the blossoming flowers and the warmer weather didn’t tip you off that spring is upon us, the arrival of the Oratorio So-ciety of Queens’ annual spring concert would be a good indication that the season is in swing.

The content of the so-ciety’s annual holiday con-cert is generally dictated by a repertoire of holiday standards, but the spring concert is always a bit more eclectic, according to mae-stro David Close.

“With spring, the sky’s the limit,” he said on a bright day last week, sitting on the porch of his home with LeeAnn Close, his wife and the society’s treasurer.

The concert, which will be held May 22, at 4 p.m. in the Queensbor-ough Performing Arts Center at Queensborough

Community College, will feature Brahms’ “Liebes-lieder Waltzes.” The Eng-lish translation of the title means “love songs,” and right before the work’s pub-lication Johannes Brahms said he hoped “they will become real family music, and sung a lot.”

“Mostly folk-like in na-ture, Brahms set all of the pieces in the most popular folk style of his time: the waltz. Each song is to-the-point, catchy and a perfect musical expression of the text chosen,” reads the soci-ety’s spring newsletter.

“Brahms worked as a

choral conductor. He wrote the pieces to private songs sung in the home,” the mae-stro said.

The concert will also include African-American spirituals and Americana songs such as “Hallelujah,” from the movie “Shrek” and “This Land is Your Land” — led by Jerry Korobow on guitar and banjo. Also pre-sented will be an original composition by intern Julie Bouchard.

“In the program, I try to balance what the singers want to sing and what the audience wants to hear,”

Close said. “Almost all of the singers sing in a church or temple choir. Church anthems are sung every Sunday, and the known repertoire is recycled over a 20- or 30-year period. With the pieces by great composers there’s more of a learning curve. They’re more grandly presented,” he said.

The 120-plus members of the 84-year-old commu-nity chorus, ranging in ages from 16 to 86, perform and carry on the tradition of what the maestro calls “the American choral expe-

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these people as your friends and neighbors. They’re teachers, speech thera-pists, dentists and lawyers. They’re the people who run the New York City subway,” he said. “They’ve been car-rying this on since 1927 in a world of change. That’s re-ally amazing.”

“Especially in the bor-ough of change,” added Lee-Ann Close.

QCC is at 222-05 56th Ave. in Bayside. Parking is free on the main lot adjacent to the theater, which offers easy-access entry. Ticket prices at the box office are $25 for general admission and $20 for seniors and stu-dents with ID. Children 12 and under accompanied by an adult are admitted free. For additional information, visit queensoratorio.org or call the Oratorio Society of Queens at 718-279-3006.

Maestro David Close conducts the Oratorio Society of Queens’ spring 2010 concert. Photo by OSQ

The Oratorio Society of Queens chorus sings during the spring 2010 concert. Photo by OSQ

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challenging. We have lan-guage barriers to overcome and cultural misunder-standings to face.”

After deciding to move to the United States for bet-ter educational and eco-nomic opportunities, Park’s family settled in Portland, Ore. He later became inter-ested in becoming an artist when he studied painting at the Pratt Institute in New York City.

Since graduating in 1984, Park has stayed in the area to concentrate on cre-ating his artwork and par-ticipating in exhibitions. He is best known for his sculptures of found objects, such as the piece “I’m Look-ing at You,” in which he paints bottle caps to form a collection of colorful eyes.

Besides the personal contentment of seeing his work exhibited and appre-

ciated throughout the Unit-ed States, it was a recent talk Park gave at Long Is-

land University’s C.W. Post campus on Long Island that made his work all the more meaningful.

“I get feedback from students, especially if they’re liking one thing,”

he observed. “They under-stand where I’m coming from and what I’m trying to do with my artwork and that is very fulfilling, very satisfying.”

Eung Ho Park’s draw-ings will be showing at dm contemporary at 39 E. 29th St. in Manhattan till June 10. For more information about Park’s artwork and upcoming exhibits, contact him at [email protected] or at 718-507-1434. You can also visit his website at eunghopark.com.


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BY ARLENE MCKANIC

The one thing that occurs to you during the performance of Astoria Performing Arts Center’s wonderful version of “The Human Comedy,” based on William Saroyan’s novel, is it was made at a more optimistic and less cynical time.

The musical tells the story of Ithaca, Calif. send-ing its boys off to World War II, though one can’t imag-ine a musical or play about a small American town that sends its boys (and, now, girls) off to Afghanistan or Iraq being so aggressively good-natured. Still, “The Human Comedy” and its talented cast and director make you surrender to it; yet at the end you’re at least a little misty eyed.

The story revolves around Homer Macauley, his family, friends and neighbors. His father re-

cently died, his brother Marcus has gone to war, and he’s taken a job at the telegraph office where he even has to deliver tele-grams from the War De-partment to his neighbors, informing them of their son’s death. In the mean-time, things try to go on as usual, even with many of the windows of Ithaca bear-ing blue and gold stars. A blue star means one has a child in the service, a gold star means your child was killed in the service.

Galt MacDermot’s mu-sic, powered by William Dumaresq’s book, is stir-ring and delightful; one can’t understand why “The Human Comedy” flopped when it came to Broadway 30 years ago. Was it because in that rare time of peace there was nothing for it to push back against?

APAC’s large cast, dressed in period costumes by Chester Kaczorowski, is

wonderful. Aaron J. Libby, though he’s a bit older than Homer, has the right teen-age innocence, a befuddle-ment over the war, and a worshipful love for his character’s older brother, Marcus.

Stephen Trafton’s Mar-cus Macauley is so sweet-faced and good that you fear for him. His solicitousness toward his orphaned Army buddy, Tobey (D. William Hughes), is touching. Also good is the rollicking ca-maraderie between Marcus and his other soldier bud-dies, who while away the time between firefights by sharing smokes, innocent girlie magazines and care packages from home.

Victoria Bundonis is both saintly and strong as Kate Macauley, the kind widow who’s holding it all together for the sake of her good children. Bundonis’ singing is both confident and ringing but carries

a fine vibration of pain; thoughts of her dead hus-band are never far from her.

Deidre Haren and Rachel Rho-des-Devey, in their pretty 1940s cos-tumes, are lovely as Bess Macauley, Marcus’ sister, and Mary Arena, Marcus’ impatiently waiting girl-friend.

Jonathan Gregg and Rayna Hickman have some real chemistry as Thomas Spangler, the chap who runs the telegraph office, and Diana, the rich girl who loves him. Gregg plays Spangler with such de-cency that you’re made to believe it when the desper-ate John Strickman (Philip Deyesso) storms into the telegraph office brandish-ing a gun and demands all the money. Deyesso’s good acting also helps the scene, but it couldn’t possibly be written today and end the

way it does. Richard Vernon is

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tor Mr. Grogan. And there’s Antho-ny Pierini as little Ulysses Macauley,

who doesn’t understand why his father is dead and who loves few things bet-ter than to rush to greet the trains that go roaring through town.

The play falters a little near the end — there’s just an iota too much cheerful bravery in the face of trag-edy. One waits for screams, collapsing and cursing of God that never comes, but that’s not the fault of the cast.

Saroyan’s novel was supposed to be a morale booster. Tom Wojtunik di-rects this musical without a hint of irony, which is much to his credit. Do read his moving note in the play-bill.

Musical director Jef-frey Campos’ band, who perform in Army fatigues, transitions easily between music full of pathos and swing numbers, and Mi-chael P. Kramer has cre-ated a perfect set for the small stage. The Macau-ley’s porch steps and a bit of their parlor is stage right, in the middle the towns-people sit in plain wooden chairs, the telegraph office is stage left.

The Human Comedy makes you wonder if people were ever this innocent, this kind to each other or this sweet to their commu-nal children. But it doesn’t matter. You believe they were.

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Air Force Airman Aneil

S. Jagtiani of Jackson Heights graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Air Force Airman Rannell

R. Bing of Jamaica graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Air Force Reserve Airman Johnny Tello of Bayside gradu-ated from basic military train-ing at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

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Dabichan of Jamaica has re-enlisted to continue service with the Co. G (Forward Support Co.-Field Artillery) 427th Brigade Support Battalion.

Staff Sgt. Randy Wallace of Elmhurst has re-enlisted to continue service with the Co. C,

101st Signal Battalion.Sgt. Donald Everett of St.

Albans has re-enlisted to contin-ue service with the Co. C, 101st Signal Battalion.

Sgt. Donny McKay of St. Albans re-enlisted to continue service with the Co. D, 1-69th In-fantry.

Spc. Johnathon Aaron of St. Albans has re-enlisted to continue service with the 727th Military Police Detachment, Law And Order.

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quarters and Headquarters Co., 2-108th Infantry.

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hu of Jamaica has re-enlisted to continue service with the Co. G (Forward Support Co.-Field Ar-tillery) 427th Brigade Support Battalion.

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Amilcar Rodriguez, son of Luz M. Palomino of Arverne, graduated from the U.S. Army Warrant Officer Candidate School at Fort Rucker, Daleville, Ala., and was appointed to the rank of warrant officer one.

Army National Guard Spec. Charles F. Oliva, son of Charles F. and Shelley M. Ol-

iva of Flushing, has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Leonard Wood, Waynes-ville, Mo.

Air Force Reserve Airman Nasirul K. Huq, brother of Say-

eeda Huq of Flushing, graduat-ed from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

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Adrian Breda of Ozone Park was named to the fall 2010 Genesee Community College dean’s list.

Gloria Colon, Harmonie

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jandro Madi and Kevin Magana — all students at LaGuardia Com-munity College in Long Island City — have received Spring Cau-cus CUNY Scholarships, which place them in internships with New York state legislators who are members in the state Legisla-tive Black, Puerto Rican, Hispan-ic and Asian Caucus.

Onpui Wong of Woodhaven, Anant K. Rangan of Rego Park, Giovanni Cano and Chanel

J. Grullon of East Elmhurst, Elizabeth Reytblat of Jackson Heights, Alicia E. Grant of Ja-maica, Sinead C. Dignon of Bri-arwood, Lucila A. Rengifo of Kew Gardens, James W. Jin of Glendale and Laura A. Pu and Gal Dvir of Flushing are set to

graduate from SUNY Oswego.Domonique E. Moody of Ja-

maica was inducted into the Al-pha Lambda Delta Honor Society at University of the Sciences.

Dan Cremens, a senior de-fender at St. John’s University in Jamaica, was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll.

Sean Donnelly of Flushing received the Unsung Hero Award at Saint Joseph’s College.

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Van Sertima of South Richmond Hill; Deanroy

Ford and Monique Ray of Springfield Gardens; Lisa

Wharton of St. Albans; and Patrick Gargano and Jonathan Ramsumare of Woodhaven.

Ryan Jaipaul of Rich-mond Hill was named the 2011 salutatorian at the NYC College of Technol-ogy.

Brittany Chase Bish-

op of Little Neck had been named to the fall 2010 Bab-son College dean’s list.

The following have graduated from Pace Law School: Alokananda Dut-

ta of Sunnyside; Joseph

Andrew Danko and Elias

Malikouzakis of East Elmhurst; and Aleksandr

Khutoryansky, Yulia

Kourasheva, Jiaying

Song and Amarilda Bra-

himi of Flushing.Jenna Wojciechows-

ki of Flushing and Briana

Floyd of Bayside were named to the fall 2010 LIM College president’s list.

Sierra Hunt of Glen-dale and William Labate of Whitestone were elected to Phi Beta Kappa at SUNY Geneseo.

Amparo Garcia of Maspeth, Penny You of Elmhurst and Jasmine

Staten of Cambria Heights have successfully com-pleted an internship at Greyston Bakery funded by Pace’s Helene and Grant Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship.

Advisor Karen Silver of Oakland Gardens, who works for cosmetics firm lia sophia, earned a sales incentive trip to Puerto Rico for meeting sales and

recruiting goals.Allstate Insurance

Co. has announced the opening of a new office in Long Island City indepen-dently owned and operated by agent Mariola Rut-

kowska.Emily Kwok of Col-

lege Point was named a clinical services associate of behavioral health for the Quality Care Manage-ment Department of Fidel-is Care.

Advisor Mabel Bou of Fresh Meadows has earned top honors in lia sophia’s Excellent Begin-nings Program Achievers for outstanding sales ac-complishments and profes-sionalism.

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Army Reserve Spec. Gordon N. Massiah, son of Welma A. Massiah of South Ozone Park, is returning to the United States after a deployment to Iraq serving in sup-port of Operation Iraqi Freedom/New Dawn, or Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and the Southwest Asia Theater of Operations.

Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Vipulkumar R. Pa-

tel, son of Rameshchan-

dra J. and Seema R.

Patel of Jackson Heights, has been mobilized and activated at Joint Base Dix-McGuire-Lakehurst, N.J., in preparation for deployment to serve in

support of either Opera-tion New Dawn in the Iraqi Theater of Opera-tions or Operation Endur-ing Freedom in Afghani-stan and the Southwest Theater of Operations.

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Elder Law Seminars — As in previous years, Flushing House will hold three “Elder Law Seminars” for Spring 2011. Once again, Flushing House opens its doors to the community, and uses their large dining room as a great hall to hear from the experts on the critical issues of our times. This spring their seminars focus on Medicare changes arising from the recently passed “Obama Care” (it’s actually called the Affordable Care Act [ACA]), with a particular emphasis on changes that will occur in 2011. RSVP. When: June 4, 11 and 18, 2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.Where: Flushing House, 38-20 Bowne St., FlushingContact: 347-532-3025, [email protected]

Queens Business Expo Breakfast — 8am - 10 am Breakfast Featuring Mort Zuckerman, Publisher, New

York Daily News. 10 am - 3 pm Business Expo. Register. When: May 24, 8 a.m. Where: Citi Field Contact: 718-898-8500

Powerful You! Women’s Network — A new Queens chapter of the national organization that empowers and supports women in their business, personal and spiritual lives.When: Third Tuesday each month, noon to 2 p.m.Cost: Members and fi rst-time attendees $30, nonmembers $40; includes lunchWhere: Giardino, 44-37 Douglaston Pkwy., DouglastonContact: Gayle Naftaly, gnaftaly@accessoffi ce.net, 718-217-0009Website: www.powerfulyou.com

Power Networking Group — Led by Harvey G. Beringer

When: Every Wednesday, 7 a.m.Cost: $10 for breakfastWhere: Jackson Hole Diner, 35-01 Bell Blvd., BaysideContact: Harvey G. Beringer at [email protected] or 718-423-0427

BNI T.N.T. (The Networking Titans) Weekly Meeting — BNI is a business and professional networking organization that allows only one person per professional classifi cation or specialty to join a chapter. BNI provides positive, supportive and structured environment to further business through word of mouth marketing. Contact chapter president Martin Koos to arrange a visit.When: Thursdays, 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.Where: Clearview Park Golf Course, 202-12 Willets Point Blvd., BaysideContact: Martin Koos 516-488-8877, Ext. 15

Queens Symphony Orchestra’s 2011 Gala Celebration — The Queens Symphony Orchestra invites you to the 2011 Symphony Gala to experience A Night at the Opera honoring QSO Board President Herbert M. Chain, City Council Member Peter Koo, and Artist and Author Constance Maltese. There will be a cocktail reception as well as dinner and dancing. When: Wednesday, May 25 at 6:30 p.m.Where: Terrace on the Park, 52-11 111th St., FlushingCost: “Early Bird” Ticket-$175 (deadline May 11th), Symphony Ticket-$200, Premium Ticket-$250 Contact: Queens Symphony Orchestra [email protected] 718.570.0909 Web site: queenssymphony.org

The LaGuardia Community College Foundation honors former Mayor Edward I. Koch and White Castle Executive John Vogt — Edward I. Koch, the 105th mayor of New York

City who served three terms, and John Vogt, Regional Director of Restaurant Operations for White Castle, will be honored at the LaGuardia Community College Foundation’s 2011 Innovative Leadership Award reception for their signifi cant contributions to higher education. The mission of the LaGuardia Community College Foundation is to raise private funds to support and enhance education of LaGuardia students, most of whom have annual family incomes of less than $25,000. All proceeds from the reception will provide scholarship support for LaGuardia students for the 2011-2012 academic year.When: Tuesday, June 7, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.Where: The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers, 61 Chelsea Piers # 300, ManhattanContact: Randy Fader-Smith [email protected] 718-482-5610 Web site: www.lagcc.cuny.edu/lagfoundation/innovative.aspx

BY REBECCA HENELY

With its dark wood facade, embroidered upholstered booths and 19th-century-style chan-deliers, Molly Blooms, at 43-13 Queens Blvd. in Sunnyside, bears strong resemblance to a Victori-an-era Irish pub — only with Wi-Fi access and a large-screen TV.

The pub and coffee shop, which opened in March, is the latest venture of Sunnyside resi-dent and activist Ciaran Staun-ton. Having run O’Neill’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, at 729 Third Avenue in Manhattan, for 15 years, Staunton is taking a simi-lar formula back to his place of residence, opening a seven-day-a-week establishment that is a coffee shop by day and a bar by night.

But by linking the bar to James Joyce’s famous novel “Ul-ysses,” whose main character’s wife is named Molly Bloom, Staunton is aiming to take visi-tors back to the type of place

Joyce might have frequented.“That’s what we wanted to

recreate,” Staunton said.Yet Staunton is not only in-

terested in luring in the coffee, beer or literary lovers. As some-one who has long been interested in beautifying Sunnyside, he is also hoping to help out his neigh-borhood. In constructing and staffing his bar, Staunton said he hired local contractors and has hired people from the community to staff his pub. Much of the meat comes from the Butcher Block, at 43-46 41st St., in Sunnyside and lo-cal moms come in to cook scones in the morning.

“We cannot say ‘shop local’ if we don’t spend local as contrac-tors and hirers,” Staunton said.

In addition to the Joycean interior, Molly Blooms also fea-tures a garden in the back where patrons will be able to sit, eat and drink when the weather is mild. Like the interior, the garden is Wi-Fi ready.

Molly Blooms has six types

of draft beer, many city-brewed, as well as a small menu featur-ing salads, wraps, burgers, veg-etarian items and daily specials. Some of the specials include Irish comfort food such as lamb stew and shepherd’s pie. In the morn-ing the pub serves coffee, tea and scones. The bar is also planning to host nights with traditional Irish music, jazz music and book and poetry readings.

Staunton said Sunnyside has always had a large progressive element and hopes that they will find at Molly Blooms a place to hang their hats.

“That’s what we’re not,” Staunton said, “‘just another bar.’”

Molly Blooms is open from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 11 p.m. on Sunday.

Reach reporter Rebecca Hene-ly by e-mail at [email protected] or by phone at 718-260-4564.

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Ciaran Staunton, an activist and businessman, has opened up the James Joyce-inspired Molly Blooms pub in Sunnyside. Photo by Rebecca Henely

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the largest decrease, more than 16 percent, between 2000 and 2010. There are now fewer than a million whites in Queens — 886,053 — while in 2000 there were 1,057,128. The black popula-

tion dropped 12.2 percent, from 486,197 residents in 2000 to 426,683 in 2010.

Reach reporter Howard Koplowitz by e-mail at [email protected] or by phone at 718-260-4573.

that message out to this particular work force be-cause it is often taken ad-vantage of in Queens, Lanc-man said.

“This is a very vulner-able population and they are exploited. We see it in every industry,” he said. “Employers know that the undocumented worker probably doesn’t know they have rights or they are afraid to exercise them.”

Richmond Hill is a community largely com-posed of South Asian, In-do-Caribbean and Latino populations.

But elsewhere in the borough, other lawmakers were addressing different immigrant populations.

In Flushing, where a large Chinese and Korean diaspora have settled, As-semblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing) partnered with Lancman to spread the word on her turf.

“Because some work-ers don’t have legal immi-grant status, they feel they are not eligible for mini-mum wage,” said Linda Sun, a spokeswoman for Meng. “They didn’t know there was a minimum wage or if their employer was withholding their income. They were under the im-pression they couldn’t do

anything about it.”Meng set up her in-

formation booth along the heavily trafficked Main Street to try and dispel those myths.

“People walked away with a lot of information in their hands,” Sun said. “Our office is here and if they have any follow-up questions, we can be the liaison.”

But Lancman conced-ed that it would take more than information to make work places safer for immi-grant laborers.

“It’s one thing to have a law on a book that pro-tects an immigrant worker against retaliation [from an employer],” he said. “It’s another for that law to be applied to protect that worker.”

If a worker does report an unsafe condition, an em-ployer can sometimes find ways to staunch cash flow and make that worker re-gret it.

But Lancman added that it is important for workers simply to know they have the right to stand up to unscrupulous employ-ers.

Reach reporter Joe Anuta by e-mail at [email protected] or by phone at 718-260-4566.

vide makes it worthwhile.“We’ve had to make

some very tough deci-sions in order to expand at this time,” he said. “And we won’t stand still. Al-ready we have embarked on a comprehensive facil-ity planning initiative that will keep us on the cutting edge.”

The new, eight-story building’s entire first floor is dedicated to ambulatory surgery, with 10 new op-erating rooms. Two new patient units added 80 pa-tient beds, increasing the hospital’s bed count to 519; the building has a floor dedicated to interventional procedures — particularly

cardiological ones — with a hybrid operating room; and the top two floors have been left open as “shell space” to be filled with new medi-cal facilities as technology advances. A new parking garage added 372 parking

spaces.As home to the bor-

ough’s only hybrid oper-ating room, multidisci-plinary liver center and installation site for MRI-proof pacemakers, NYHQ remains a leading force in Queens health care.

In the past year, the hospital also started a formal palliative care program and made great progress on the goal of im-plementing fully electronic record-keeping. And in order to better serve its di-

verse clientele, the hospital has employed a team of “pa-tient navigators,” who help patients get past obstacles such as language barriers and insurance issues.

“They will help you navigate through your care,” said Dr. Mitchell Chorost, director of sur-gical oncology at NYHQ and associate director of its cancer center. “They’re your friends who help you through your course and to get your care, and hope-fully to get you on the road to recovery.”

But there are still sig-nificant challenges facing NYHQ and other hospitals nationwide.

There are shortages of doctors in many special-ties and even primary care in the borough. And pay-

ments from government health-care programs — whose patients make up a large proportion of NYHQ patients — continue to fall even while hospital’s costs increase. Over the past four years, NYHQ has suffered a rate reduction of $50 mil-lion at the state level, and it expects to lose $6 million in this fiscal year’s state and federal budgets, according to Mills.

“That’s something we’re dealing with here, less Medicaid and Medi-care dollars coming in, and more expenditures from us here at hospitals,” he said. “Where does it end, how do we address this? I wish I had the crystal ball to be able to tell you that an-swer.”

The former clubhouse manager was also charged with embezzling $24,955 from the Mets by submit-ting inflated expense claims above the total cost of meals provided to um-pires during the season and failing to report or pay tax-es on $203,789 that Samuels received as tips from Mets players and others in 2008

and 2009, Brown said.The DA said Samu-

els faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of the top charge against him: criminal possession of sto-len property.

A 21-count indictment against Samuels was un-sealed May 11.

Reach reporter Howard Koplowitz by e-mail at [email protected] or by phone at 718-260-4573.

school and gives them more individual instruction. He will be starting a 10th-grade academy next year.

Educators at John Ad-

ams have been taking simi-lar measures, as well as pulling up their graduation rates from previous years.

That proved tougher for the two high schools than others in the borough, according to Gavin, be-cause of the diverse make-up of the student bodies.

In an earlier inter-view, Gavin said that a sub-stantial number of students who do not speak English as a first language typical-ly take five years to gradu-ate, which then makes the school’s rate appear lower.

There is also a high level of absenteeism at the

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Addabbo a fan of the plan.“Each school is differ-

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that students’ post-gradua-tion lives will not be graded or scored.

“If you are that 2.0 stu-dent, never give up — any-thing is possible,” he said.

In fact, Rapole had very blunt advice for people who would try and say oth-erwise.

“Tell them to bleep bleep,” he said, clarifying he did not want to swear on

stage. “With the father, the bishop and the clouds — I was worried about light-ning.”

Rapole kept his other pieces of advice simple as well, because as he put it, “because I have ADD.”

He urged the graduates to have fun and savor the moment, to think big and dream bigger and finally to share their success.

Carnesecca did not give a speech, but to many his career speaks for itself.

He brought St. John’s into the national spotlight with a 526-200 record, five National Invitation Tour-nament championships, two Big East champion-ships and also appeared in a 1985 Final Four tourna-ment.

“Every university has its giants — legendary fig-ures who leave an indelible mark on the institution it-self,” said Professor John

Greg. “For St. John’s Uni-versity, Louis Carnesecca — ‘Lou,’ as he is universally known — is such a man.”

The 2,800 students were honored as well, al-though some were wary about life after graduation.

“I’m really nervous,” said Krisy Insignares, who graduated with a degree in legal studies. “If I can’t find a job, my plan is to go back to school.”


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Queens District Attorney Richard Brown (at podium) announces charges against former Mets clubhouse manager Charlie Samuels, who is accused of criminally possessing $2.3 million in Mets mem-orabilia. Photo by Howard Koplowitz

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BY ZACH BRAZILLER

Marquis Barnett, the rugged Cardozo forward who has faced more adver-sity in his young life than most deal with in a life-time, spoke freely and with-out worry. There was joy in his voice, a satisfaction in an accomplishment — a Di-vision I college basketball scholarship — that seemed like a dream just two years ago.

“I never thought this would happen,” the 6-foot-7, 240-pound Barnett, best known for his rebounding and shot-blocking, said May 9, hours after he verbally committed to Quinnipiac University and Coach Tom Moore.

Barnett, a third team All-Queens selection by the New York Post who helped Cardozo go undefeated in Queens AA and reach the PSAL Class AA semifinals, passed on visiting Cen-tral Connecticut State for Quinnipiac. Western Ken-tucky, Towson, Marist and Duquesne called in recent weeks, Cardozo Coach Ron

Naclerio said, after Bar-nett’s memorable senior year and his impressive play in recent AAU tourna-ments with New Heights.

But Barnett didn’t need to see any other schools or meet any other coaches. He loved the Quinnipiac cam-pus in Hamden, Conn., the large student center and felt a bond with Moore and his new teammates.

“For me, it’s more like a new beginning, a new start,” he said. “I’m not go-ing to have to go through stress. It can be a better life for me.”

Barnett’s troubles have been well-doc-umented.

He re-cently moved to Staten Island from a Lower East Side shelter, the third shelter in three years with his family, and has been making the four-hour, four-borough commute each way daily. Because of mold and flooding, his fam-ily was forced to move out of their Far Rockaway apart-ment and into the shelter. Last February, Tavon Turpin, his autistic 11-year-old half-brother, was killed in a fire he set when he was left unsupervised in their grandmother’s Coney Is-land home. He’s also had to help his mother, Francine Baker, get out of a physical-ly abusive relationship that went on for several years.

“I just stayed positive through it all and it worked out,” he said.

When he landed at Car-dozo two years ago from St. Raymond, his grades were a mess and his game a proj-ect. He worked tirelessly at both, spending extra time

Smith settles on LouisvilleChrist the King All American guard reveals her college decision

Barnett’s new start to be at Quinnipiac

Cardozo’s Marquis Barnett ver-bally committed to Quinnipiac University.

Photo by Denis Gostev

BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKI

Bria Smith finally let everyone in on her secret.

The Christ the King All-American guard made her college decision be-tween Tennessee and Lou-isville last week, but kept it mostly to herself. With her mom Andrea by her side at the Middle Village school, Smith announced May 11 she would be playing for the Cardinals next season, after her intentions were first reported by the New York Post.

“School was kind of normal, but the Internet

and everything, like Twit-ter and Facebook, that’s been crazy,” said Smith, who wore a Tennessee sweatshirt to school to throw people off. “I’ve been getting contacted constant-ly.”

The decision ends a nearly two-month recruit-ing process. Smith, the Post’s All-City girls’ basket-ball Player of the Year and No. 8-ranked recruit in her class by HoopGurlz, asked to be released from her National Letter of Intent at Virginia in March after Coach Debbie Ryan stepped down.

“I felt like I needed to get that assurance that my coach will stay there, that I will have him for four years,” the 5-foot-9 Smith said. “It’s a better chance at Louisville.”

Louisville, which was in her original top three, provided her with every-thing she was looking for. She wanted a budding

national program with a strong fan base and team-mates and coaches she felt comfortable with. The Car-dinals went 22-13 last sea-son and lost in the Sweet 16 under Coach Jeff Walz. Smith believes he can get her ready to play against some of the top guards in the country and at the next level.

“Bria was more vocal and participated more the second time around,” An-drea Smith said. “She was actually telling me what schools she wanted. Before I, like, made up a list.”

There was a famil-iarity with the Kentucky school. Smith took an un-official visit there during her initial recruitment and

an official visit last month over Easter Break. She has already gotten to know fel-low Louisville recruit Sar-ah Hammond, a fellow Mc-Donald’s All-American.

“He was jumping off the walls,” Smith said of Walz’s reaction. “He was like, ‘Tell every body I’m jumping off the walls right

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With each batter, Adri-an Castano could hear John Adams Coach Glenn Beyer telling his hitters what pitches to expect. It didn’t bother the Cardozo ace — even though Beyer was pretty much on the money regarding his mid-80s fast-ball and hard-breaking hook.

“Them knowing my pitches,” Castano said with a smile, “that doesn’t mean they can hit them.”

The brash statement became more truth than braggadocio. The Judges sophomore ace, coming into the game in relief, retired all nine hitters he faced and struck out four to wrap up Cardozo’s 10th-straight league win to start the year, a 5-1 baseball victory Friday over John Adams that earmarks the Judges as Queens’ best.

After the win, Cardozo Coach Ron Gorecki looked to change the subject regarding Castano, who also drove in two runs with a

two-out single, in a way to spread praise. He talked about the fine job third starter Calvin Luk did in picking up his second league win; how this is the hardest-working team he’s ever had; and the leader-ship qualities in catcher Diego Gonzalez, a Baruch College campus transfer.

Yet, moments after he says, “This isn’t the Adrian show” and “This isn’t Adri-an Cardozo, it’s Benjamin Cardozo,” the baseball lifer begins raving about Casta-no. He says his sophomore is a 15-year-old who plays like he’s 20; that he’s the best center fielder in the city; the team’s sparkplug and engine atop the lineup; and he can envision him playing pro ball one day.

“By the time he is a junior, nobody is stopping him in the PSAL,” the coach said. “I’ve had eight to 10 major leaguers play for me. He’s got the ability to play at the next level.”

Evidently, he also has

tunnel vision. During his appearance Friday, Casta-no’s personal rooting sec-tion exchanged words with Beyer. His father Adrian Sr. and summer league Coach Nelson Santiago were upset with a flippant statement they alleged Beyer made, which he denied.

The game is stopped as Beyer speaks with Gorecki and the home-plate umpire.

All the while, Casta-no is standing idly on the mound, just one hitter into his first relief appearance since last year’s disap-pointing showing. That day, Castano couldn’t find the plate without any such distractions in a 7-4 playoff loss to Brooklyn Tech.

Eventually, the game resumes and the hubbub dies down. Not that Casta-no seemed fazed by the commotion.

“That’s none of my business,” he said. “I’m here to play the game. I block that out.”

It isn’t cliché; he

means it. Senior right-hander Chris Estrada says Castano often tells team-mates to ignore everything that isn’t on the diamond. True to form, he shakes off the delay with the same ease he dismisses opposing batters.

Castano credits his de-velopment to hard work and his vast experience playing up in age with the College Point All-Stars. He is the summer team’s young-est player, says his father Adrian Castano Sr., who is also a coach with the team that reached the Babe Ruth World Series in 2008.

“I believe … to get bet-ter you have to play with better competition,” Adri-an Castano Sr. said. “I was raised not to like failure. I try to bring that upon him. You learn losing, you learn winning, but try to be the best you can all the time.”

He later said: “I don’t want to sound conceited, but I expect him to do good.”

Cardozo’s Adrian Castano has led the Judges to a 10-0 start in Queens A East. Photo by Christina Santucci

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BY DYLAN BUTLER

Jose Urena is Monsignor Mc-Clancy’s everyday third baseman, but with the Crusaders playing their fourth game in four days, Coach Nick Melito knew he had to be creative to find last Thursday afternoon’s start-er.

Urena showed flashes during McClancy’s early-season trip to South Carolina, but he’s struggled out of the bullpen in a few appearances.

Melito, however, had a hunch Urena was ready for a critical CHSAA Class AA Brooklyn/Queens baseball division title and gave him the ball.

“Four games in four days and he has a very live arm,” Melito said. “I pitched him in South Carolina for a few innings and liked what I saw. To-day was the day.”

Urena, a junior, duly delivered, scattering five hits in a complete-game shutout for the surging Crusad-ers, who beat St. Francis Prep 6-0 at Cunningham Park.

“He throws hard, he’s got move-ment,” Melito said. “The upside of him is tremendous. He does it all. He’s a great player. He had composure and threw strikes. He was ready today and nothing bothered him.”

Urena said he couldn’t wait to step on the mound. The Crusaders

couldn’t buy a win early in the season and started out 1-6. Now McClancy has won four of its last five and could finish third in a wild Brooklyn/Queens division.

“I felt great,” Urena said. “I was waiting for this game. We want to [fin-ish] in third place.”

Urena struck out three and had no walks, owning the inside corner of t h e

plate. He also managed to do some-thing other teams aces haven’t been able to figure out all year. Not only did he keep St. Francis Prep’s Chris Cannon hitless. He also struck out the Navy-bound catcher three times.

“I think we mixed it up pretty well,” Melito said. “That kid is a great player and if sits on a pitch he can re-ally be dangerous, but I think we had him a little bit. When he was thinking fastball, we were throwing breaking balls. When he was thinking break-ing ball, we were throwing a fastball and his fastball has a little giddy-up to it.”

McClancy (8-7) jumped in front in the second as Jonathan Busardo drove in Mike D’Agostino with a two-out single up the middle. The Crusad-ers scored two more runs in the third

as Rob Mongiori, who tried to call time but the home plate umpire didn’t recognize it, ripped a two-run triple to right.

“I called time, but thank God he didn’t call it because I might not have gotten that hit,” Mongiori said. “We needed the runs. I gapped it and two runs scored.”

St. Francis Prep (9-6) rallied in the third as Steven Pelan reached on a one-out error and Tom McKenna followed with single to right and it appeared the Terriers had runners at the corners with No. 3-hitter Jason Perrone coming up.

But it was ruled Pelan missed sec-ond base and Perrone grounded back to Urena to end the potential rally.

“I thought we were coming back, but that took the wind out of our sails,” St. Francis Prep Coach Broth-er Robert Kent said. “We didn’t make the plays, but McClancy did and their guy threw a good game.”

McClancy tacked on three insur-ance runs in the top of the seventh as Urena drove in Dan Restrepo, who tri-pled to right, and Anthony Merchan scored on one of four St. Francis Prep errors.

“We have something going and we’re getting some breaks,” Melito said. “At one time we were 1-6 and now we’re 8-7. That’s a big jump.”

McClancy junior Jose Urena had two singles, an RBI and pitched a five-hit shutout. Photo by Philip Hall

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Construction takessecond straight title

BY MARC RAIMONDI

Britney Rodriguez gave up two runs in the first inning and walked five through five frames. Her control was all over the place. The Construction freshman ace’s poise in a big situation was being put to the test.

“I think Britney’s heart rate today was proba-bly over 200 for the first five innings,” Red Hawks Coach Marco Migliaccio said. “She was super pumped. She knows this is for the division again. When I warmed her up, she was on speed or something. That’s why her location was off.”

It wasn’t until Con-struction blew the game open May 10 in the bottom of the fifth of a 14-2, six-inning win over Bryant in PSAL Queens A-II softball that Rodriguez was able to calm down. She struck out the side in the sixth inning and sophomore first base-man Linda McKernan’s three-run home run in the bottom half sent the Red Hawks to the victory and a second straight division title in just two seasons in Class A.

“When I got those runs, I was like, ‘OK, I gotta relax — we got this,’” Ro-driguez said.

Bryant (9-3), which has been on a roll, put an early scare into Construc-tion (11-1). Junior shortstop Gaby Faustino hit a leadoff triple to start the game, Courtney Serrano drove her in and Ashley Torres Littwin made it 2-0 with an RBI single of her own. The Owls immediately put the Red Hawks on their heels.

It took a massive three-run triple by pinch hitter Amy Pirozek in the second inning to get them back the lead 3-2. The freshman has been in danger of losing her regular spot in the lineup lately, but she came up with a rope that curled down the right field line that scored McKernan, Amanda Gar-cia and Katherine Valle (three walks, three runs). Alicia Gonzalez drove her in with a single and later Pirozek came up with an RBI single of her own.

“Amy came up huge to-day,” Migliaccio said.

Three straight Bryant errors to start the fifth in-ning helped Construction get some breathing room in a five-run fifth. McK-ernan (2-3, five RBIs, two runs) had the big hit with a two-run single off Tiffany Zecena, who Owls Coach Wally Hausdorf said began overcompensating because her defense was not mak-ing plays behind her.

“It was a real confi-dence boost,” Pirozek said.

Defense had actu-ally been Bryant’s biggest strength in winning six of seven league games and a big non-league against Cardozo Friday. The Owls also left seven runners on against Rodriguez. Fausti-no went 2-for-4 and Serrano was 2-for-3.

“You gotta learn,” Hausdorf said. “Maybe later in the playoffs, they’ll know what to do.”

Ashley Burke was 2-for-4 with two runs and

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Kailan Luciano was 1-for-2 with a run. Rodriguez end-ed up allowing just those two runs on four hits, none after the second inning. She looked dominant in the sixth, setting the side down in order, each batter swing-ing at either a hard fastball or a devastating change-up.

“She became unhit-table again,” Migliaccio said. “This is a big step she had to take. It’s better that it happens now.”

Rodriguez said her left hamstring started to both-er her after throwing the first pitch of the game. The 5-foot-2 sprite has also been pitching with a broken fin-ger on her left pitching hand since the first week of the season. Perhaps all that adrenaline she had early got her through the pain.

“It was a big game,” Rodriguez said. “Bryant is a really good school and I wanted to win this game bad.”


Constructionnow.’ It was funny.”

Smith, New York State’s Miss Basketball, said it was hard to turn down legendary Tennessee Coach Pat Summitt. But she believes she had a better chance to make a bigger im-pact right away at Louisville. It also gives her the opportunity to play road games close to her Massapequa, L.I., home at schools like St. John’s, Rut-gers, Connecticut and Seton Hall. Smith averaged 21.1 points and 7.5 rebounds to lead the Royals to a 21-9 record and a spot in the CHSAA Class AA state final this season. She also won a state Federation Class AA crown as a junior.

“If she is not competing for

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Her initial commitment to Vir-ginia came and went with the normal amount of attention for a top high-school prospect. Smith waited for for-mer California Coach Joanne Boyle to be hired as the school’s next coach, but felt that if things were meant to be at Virginia it would have worked out the first time.

“Tennessee is a tremendous program with maybe one of the best coaches, men or women, of all time,” Mackey said. “Bria decided she want-ed to make a fresh start. Louisville is a very up and coming program. Jeff Walz has proven he can get it done.”

With her recruitment open and an appearance in the nationally televised McDonald’s All-American game, Smith was flooded with inter-

est from college coaches and gained national attention as well as the grow-ing interest and well-wishes of fans via social media. Both Summitt and Walz placed calls to Mackey to find out her intentions — something her teammates were also interested in.

“I really wanted to know and I’d try to catch her off guard to tell me,” CK’s Illinois-bound forward Nia Oden said. “But she wouldn’t.”

Smith had fun keeping her desti-nation a secret from the public up to the waning hours and enjoyed all the kind words she received over Twitter and Facebook, but is happier to know she has a place she is comfortable to call home for the next four years.

“It’s been crazy, actually,” Smith said. “The fans looking at you 24/7 and having coaches calling you con-stantly. It’s been nice, but I’m happy it’s over now.”


Smith

with tutors on his studies and hours after practice refining his basketball rep-ertoire.

Last week, Naclerio sent a series of text mes-sages to fellow teachers and school officials and even more came flowing back.

“He’s not well-liked at Cardozo, he’s loved at Car-

dozo,” Naclerio said. “I’ve been doing this for a long time and I’ve seen a lot of kids reach the pinnacle of getting a scholarship, but when it officially happened today, it really made me feel good. He needed this so bad for what he’s gong through in his life. He was look-ing at schools not based on playing time or non-league games, he was looking at


Barnettdegrees and job opportuni-ties. I’ve never had a kid like that.”

Based on the recent strides he’s made, Naclerio said he thinks Barnett could be an all-conference player by the time he’s an upper-classmen. One Division I assistant coach involved in Barnett’s recruitment said the power forward is still a

work in progress offensive-ly, but should be able to help in other areas quickly.

“He’ll have a chance to be what [former Transit Tech star] Rhamel Brown was for Manhattan in the MAAC this year — he got his points off playing hard,” the coach said. “Re-bounding the ball is all about toughness and he has

that.”Barnett isn’t overly

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job,” he said. “I’m basically going to college to get a good-paying job to make sure my mother gets her own house. I want her to have a good life, not have to worry about no bills, noth-ing.”

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Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Silver, Stk #U1214, 24K mi.

2006 Honda CR-V EX 4WD $13,981 Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Red, Stk #U1041, 47K mi 2008 Honda Civic LX $13,993

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Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Blue, Stk #U1163, 16K mi 2009 Honda Civic LX $14,736

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Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Grey, Stk #U1205, 27K mi 2010 Honda Fit Sport $14,986

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Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Blue, Stk #U1176, 10K mi 2008 Honda Civic EX $15,483

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Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, mnrf, ally, Black, Stk #U1223, 15K mi

2010 Honda Civic LX $15,543 Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Silver, Stk #U1102, 21K mi

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2010 Honda Fit Sport $15,836Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, alloys, Silver, Stk #U1209, Only 200 mi. 2008 Honda Accord EX-L $15,973

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Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, leather, Grey, Stk #U1038, 58K mi

2008 HondaCivic EX Navi $15,986Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, moonroof,alloys, navigation, Silver, Stk #U1219, 15K mi

2008 Honda Accord LX-P $16,344Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, alloys, Black, Stk #U1117, 30K mi

2008 Honda Accord LX $16,348Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Silver, Stk #U1132, 35K mi

2009 Honda Accord LX $16,584Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks,cd, Black, Stk #U1126, 21K mi

2008 Honda Accord LX-S Coupe$16,679

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Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 2 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, alloys, Stk#U1186, 33K mi

2009 Honda Accord LX-P $16,994 Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Grey, Stk #U1181, 23K mi

2009 Honda Accord EX $17,873Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Red. Stk #U1092, 32K mi

2008 Honda Accord EX-L $17,941Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, leather, Silver, Stk #U1134, 34K mi

2008 Honda CR-V LX 4WD $17,963 Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, White, Stk #U1245, 23K mi

2008 Honda Accord EX-L V6 COUPE

Auto, V6, 2 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, leather, Black, Stk #U1160, 20K mi

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2009 Honda Accord EX-L V6

Auto, V6, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, leather, Silver, Stk #U1125, 29K mi

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2008 Honda Pilot EX-L Navi 4WD

Auto, 6 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Grey, Stk #U1239, 57K mi

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2008 Honda Pilot EX-L 4WD

Auto, 6 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, leather,moonroof, alloys, Red, Stk #U1071, 35K mi

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2009 Honda Pilot EX 4WD

Auto, 6 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, runningbrds, alloys, Red, Stk #U1216, 48K mi

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2010 Honda CR-V EX-L 4WD

Auto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Red, Stk#U1107, 6K mi

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2007 Acura MDX Sport 4WD

Auto, 6 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, dvd, White, Stk #U1123, 66K mi

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2009 Honda Odyssey EX-L NAVI/DVD

Auto, 6 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, leather,navigation, dvd, moonroof, Silver, Stk #U1238, 9K mi

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2008 Acura MDX Tech Auto, 6 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Black, Stk#U1193, 41K mi

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2010 Honda Odyssey EX-L NAVI/DVD

Auto, 6 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, cd, leather,dvd, navigation, Silver, Stk #U1197, 27K mi

2008 Honda Odyssey LX $18,436Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 6 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Silver Stk #U251141, 25K mi

2008 Honda Accord EX-L NAVI$18,961

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Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Grey, 4dr, Stk #U1158, 41K mi

2008 Acura TL $18,967 Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 6 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, sunroof, Silver, Stk #U1024, 31K

2008 Honda CR-V EX 4WD $18,993 Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, Black, Stk #U1086, 35K mi

2008 Honda Accord EX-L V6$19,788

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Plus tax & TagsAuto, V6, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, sunroof, leather, White, Stk #U1137, 32K mi


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Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, sunroof, Silver, Stk #U1112, 36K mi

2009 Honda CR-V EX 4WD $19,943Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks/moonroof, cd, alloys, Silver, Stk #U1213, 16K mi


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Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks/moonroof,cd, alloys, leather, White, Stk #U1235, 29K mi

2009 Honda Accord EX-L $19,989Buy For

Plus tax & TagsAuto, 4 cyl, 4 dr, p/s/ABS/winds/lks, cd, leather,moonroof, Black, Stk #U1234, 19K mi

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*Jaguar Platinum Coverage includes all factory recommended scheduled maintenance for five years or 50,000 miles, whichever occurs first. Wear and tear items are limited to brake pads, brake discs, brake fluid changes and wiper blade inserts based on factory specified wear limits or intervals.All work must be performed by an authorized Jaguar dealer. For complete details on Jaguar Platinum Coverage, including warranty and maintenance coverage and exclusions, please visit your local Jaguar dealer or JAGUARUSA.COM. 42 month lease, First Month Payment, $0 down, $0 bankfee, Add Tax & reg fees. No security deposit. Primary bank approval. 10k miles per yr.,. 30 cents per mile therafter. Total payments- XK Convertible $49,896, XJ $41,916, XF $28,896. Expires 5 Days after publication date.

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XF$$66888842 month lease† -

Delicious 2011 Jaguar

XK$$1100888842 month lease† -

$0 Down Payment! $0 Security Deposit! $0 Bank Fee!

$1,000 COULDBE YOURS!

BEFORE YOU BUY YOUR NEXT LUXURY AUTOMOBILE,PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:Test drive a new 2011 Jaguar at Great Neck Jaguar first, and if you buy or lease a selected comparablyequipped new 2011 Mercedes, BMW, Lexus, Audi or Porsche- within 10 days of your test-drive at Great Neck Jaguar - we will give you a $1,000 American Express Gift Card! You may ask…why would we do this? Simply put, we are THAT confident you will fall in love with a new Jaguar.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS: One test-drive offer per customer. Your full address and Social Security Number must be supplied to Great Neck Jaguar whereas you may incur tax liability. You agree to supply the minimum evidencebelow (to be retained by Great Neck Jaguar ) as proof of your eligible competitive-make lease or purchase. 1. A copy of a fully executed purchase or lease contract in the name of eligible claimant dated on or before the offerexpiration date on the certificate. 2. A copy of the eligible competing make’s vehicle’s Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price label (MSRP/Monroney Label). 3. Evidence of eligible competitive vehicle’s New York State registrationin the claimant’s name as listed on the certificate during the eligible offer period as dated on the certificate. The offer is available to private individuals only. No purchase from Great Neck Jaguar required. If all conditions of thisoffer are met by you, the American Express Gift Card® must be claimed within 30 days of “test-drive” date listed on the certificate or the offer is null and void. Expires 5 Days after publication date.

FreeMaintenance

ON ALL 2011 JAGUARS FOR5 YEARS 50,000 MILES•Factory Scheduled

Services• Brake Pads• Brake Discs• Oil & Filter Changes• Free Car Washes†

• Free Loaner Vehicle• Free Pickup & Delivery ††

•Wiper Blade Inserts•and Much More!

Delicious 2011 Jaguar

XJ $$99888842 month lease† -

$1,000 PLATINUMTEST-DRIVE CHALLENGE

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