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THE WEEK OF JANUARY 17, 2002
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MID. VIL. COMPLEX
71-Unit Plan Is Seen As Excessive
by Rob MacKay
Plans to create a 16-building, 70-unit residential complex in Middle Village suffered a setback last Wednesday, as Community Board 5 rejected the developer’s plea for a zoning code variance that would allow legal construction of the buildings.
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SAY QUEENS PLAZA
PROSTITUTION FREE
UFCA Learns Of Sanitation Rules
by Gloria Lisa Baksh
Captain Douglas G. Rolston, the 108th Precinct’s new commanding officer, took the podium at last Thursday’s United Forties Civic Association meeting to address concerns about prostitution in Long Island City. He happily announced that “prostitution has moved out.”
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Signs Show Old Graffiti
Vandal Is Back In Area
Spent Time In Jail, Then Probation
by Rob MacKay
A particularly prolific graffiti vandal, who had disappeared after a number of convictions and jail sentences in the 1990s, seems to be back in business. His tag has been seen recently in some of his favorite old spots in Ridgewood, Maspeth and Glendale.
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FHCCA HEARS PLEA
OPPOSING OLYMPICS
Say Flushing Meadows Would Suffer
by Gloria Lisa Baksh
On the same day that newly elected Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke to the press about the possibility of New York City hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics, some good reasons to oppose the plan were laid out at last Tuesday’s Forest Hills Community & Civic Association meeting.
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Two Kept Them Laughing,
Two Kept Them Reading
Positive Energy On ‘Lost List’
by Rob MacKay
The Times Newsweekly is maintaining two alphabetical lists of the September 11 terrorist attack victims who lived or worked in areas where the paper is read. The first list contains names that are appearing for the first time in complete form. The second list is for names that have been featured in previous weeks.
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Errors In Howard Beach Zone Article
There were a number of factual errors in the article entitled “Howard Beach Biz Wants New Zoning,” which appeared in the January 10, 2002 edition of this newspaper.
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NEW NAMES FOR STREETS
IN SUNNYSIDE, WOODSIDE
City To Take Over Stevens Site
by Michael Efthimiades
New street names in Sunnyside and Woodside, a controversial condemnation takeover and the Queens Boulevard Bridge construction were the main topics of last Thursday’s Community Board 2 meeting.
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Officer Makes Heroic Save
Rescues Woman Drowning In Waters Off Lower Manhattan
by Alina Mogollon-Volk
There were a lot of quality-of-life and drug-related issues mentioned at last Wednedsay’s 106th Precinct Community Council meeting in Ozone Park, but a heroic, high-risk act that saved a life had to be mentioned first.
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It’s The Road To Cuffs For
Red Light Runner In Astoria
Passenger Found With Gun, Drugs
by Bill Mitchell
Following a car after it went through a red light reportedly led police to a loaded gun and crack cocaine, resulting in the arrest of two males in Astoria last Monday.
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Many Reasons To
Nab Flushing Man
A Flushing man wanted in connection with a May 2000 kidnapping, carjacking and robbery, as well as a previous robbery, has been arrested and charged with the crimes after the prosecutor who tried an accomplice in the kidnapping case recognized him when he was brought to court for not paying a $25 fine in a separate case.
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Lawsuit Threatens Power
Plants In West New York
Coal Use Violates Clean Air Act
A federal lawsuit has been filed against Niagara Mohawk and NRG Energy for violations of the federal Clean Air Act at the Dunkirk and C.R. Huntley coal-burning power plants located in Chautauqua and Erie counties.
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Special Health Benefits For
Army Members And Families
Queens Plaza Eyed For New Market
by Michael Efthimiades
Jamaica Hospital officials made a brief presentation about the Military Appreciation Program available to veterans during last Thursday’s Community Board 1 district cabinet meeting held in Astoria.
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States In Northeast
Press For Clean Air
Attack Pollution From Midwest
The attorneys general of nine northeastern states have warned the Bush administration not to undermine an ongoing state-federal effort to reduce power plant pollution that causes smog, acid rain and respiratory disease.
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Unsung Trade Center Heroes
Now Facing Unemployment
Social Services Face Budget Woes
David, a seventh-grader, was stranded at I.S. 77 in Ridgewood on September 11 because his parents were stuck in Manhattan due to the tragedy in the World Trade Center. But Wendy Fallon, who is the Catalpa YMCA’s child care director in Ridgewood, was able to pick him up from school and keep him safe playing computer games and eating tacos and chicken nuggets until his mom could get home.
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Eight Arrests In Drug Supermarket
High-Grade Cocaine, Pot, Ecstasty, Narcotic Pain Killers
Eight individuals—including a Brooklyn physician who allegedly sold drug prescriptions, a Manhattan hospital chemist who allegedly moonlighted as a designer drug and marijuana peddler and a Great Neck law firm secretary who allegedly filled drug prescriptions for cash and drugs—have been indicted for taking part in a $1 million-a-year drug “supermarket” operation which supplied high-grade cocaine, top-quality marijuana, various designer drugs, such as OcyContin, Percocet and Vicodin and the mood-enhancing hallucinogenic, Ecstasy, to hundreds of middle-class drug users, including a New York City Fire Department Battalion Chief, in Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island and Northern New Jersey.
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Rapist Given 25 Years In Jail
Victim Was Just Nine Years Old
A St. Albans man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 1999 rape of a nine-year-old schoolgirl.
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Teen Pleads Guilty To
Murder Of Deliveryman
Ordered Chinese Food To Kill
A Queens teenager who pled guilty in connection with the robbery-murder of Chinese food deliveryman Jin Sheng Liu in September 2000 has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
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Workshops On Disaster
Relief At Queens Library
Help For Unemployed, Strugglers
To help Queens Library customers cope with the downturn in the city’s economy and the changing government legislation enacted in the aftermath of September 11, a series of information workshops is set at several Branch locations. Admission is free to all programs.
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Consumer Alert
On Coconut Slices
Sulfite-allergic consumers and asthmatics should avoid consuming Micson Coconut Slices due to undeclared sulfites in the product, warned New York State Agriculture Commissioner Nathan L. Rudgers.
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Queens Library Makes
Easy-Access Databases
Info To Go, Around The Clock
Queens Library announces that five more of its databases are now available for remote access by library customers. These are databases of newspapers and magazine articles for reference and research purposes.
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City Aging Department
Is Seeking Volunteers
Chance To Help Visually Impaired
The New York City Department for the Aging Volunteer Support Project is seeking volunteers to assist visually impaired seniors in everyday activities. Volunteers usually spend two to five hours a week in helping with such tasks as shopping, visits to the post office, beauty salon, medical appointments or to senior centers.
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Reserve Slagle
Promoted To Sgt.
Marine Crops Reserve Sergeant David Slagle, son of Colette Slagle of Madison Street in Ridgewood and David E. Slagle of Franklin, North Carolina, was recently promoted to his current rank while serving at the First Marine Corps District in Garden City, Long Island.
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GVAC Headquarters
Moves To New Site
The Glendale Volunteer Ambulance Corps has relocated its headquarters to 61-14 Myrtle Avenue, between 61st Street and 62nd Street.
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