24 THE QUEENS COURIER • FEBRUARY 9, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM THE QUEENS editorial PUBLISHER & EDITOR CO-PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF VP, EVENTS, WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA ART DIRECTOR ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR ARTISTS SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS EVENTS COORDINATOR ASSISTANT TO PUBLISHER CLASSIFIED MANAGER CONTROLLER PRESIDENT & CEO VICE PRESIDENT VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS BOB BRENNAN ROBERT POZARYCKI AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ NIRMAL SINGH CHERYL GALLGHER RON TORINA, JONATHAN RODRIGUEZ EMILY DAVENPORT KATRINA MEDOFF, ANTHONY GIUDICE, ANGELA MATUA SUZANNE MONTEVERDI CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI JACLYN HERTLING DEBORAH CUSICK CELESTE ALAMIN MARIA VALENCIA VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS Schneps Communications, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 718-224-5863 • Fax 718-224-5441 www.qns.com editorial e-mail: editorial@qns.com for advertising e-mail: ads@qns.com Entire Contents Copyright 2017 by The Queens Courier All letters sent to THE QUEENS COURIER should be brief and are subject to condensing. Writers should include a full address and home and offi ce telephone numbers, where available, as well as affi liation, indicating special interest. Anonymous letters are not printed. Name withheld on request. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, AS WELL AS OP-ED PIECES IN NO WAY REFLECT THE PAPER’S POSITION. No such ad or any part thereof may be reproduced without prior permission of THE QUEENS COURIER. The publishers will not be responsible for any error in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Errors must be reported to THE QUEENS COURIER within fi ve days of publication. Ad position cannot be guaranteed unless paid prior to publication. Schneps Communications assumes no liability for the content or reply to any ads. The advertiser assumes all liability for the content of and all replies. The advertiser agrees to hold THE QUEENS COURIER and its employees harmless from all cost, expenses, liabilities, and damages resulting from or caused by the publication or recording placed by the advertiser or any reply to any such advertisement. LONELY GULL OVER LITTLE NECK BAY // PHOTO BY JEFFREY PFLAUM Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! To submit them to us tag @queenscourier on Instagram, visit our Facebook page, tweet @QNS or email editorial@qns.com (subject: Queens Snaps). Justice for Karina at last Th e brutal murder of Howard Beach resident Karina Vetrano last summer shocked the entire nation, but the circumstances of the crime itself — committed in a desolate park with no witnesses or security cameras — made many wonder if her killer would ever be found. Th anks to the unwavering eff orts of the New York Police Department and others in the law enforcement community, the alleged culprit is fi nally behind bars and on the road to prosecution. Chanel Lewis of Brooklyn allegedly gave detectives a very detailed confession that he killed Vetrano on that hot August day in Spring Creek Park; his DNA matched evidence found on Vetrano and at the crime scene. If convicted, he will probably face the rest of his life in prison, a deserving sentence for anyone who would be found guilty of committing such a heinous and violent crime. Th e NYPD’s investigation took six long months, but by all accounts, they left no proverbial stone unturned. Detectives combed the crime scene, made public appeals for witnesses, waded through hundreds of tips from the public. Hopefully this arrest brings a sense of justice to the beautiful young woman’s family, and eases a neighborhood aft er months of anxiety and tension. Kudos to the NYPD and the Queens District Attorney’s offi ce on a job well done. Time for food carts to make the grade Mobile food stands, whether by truck or a pushcart, have become one of the biggest popular purveyors of fi ne cuisine in all of Queens. From souvlaki to gourmet sandwiches, hot dogs to halal chicken over rice, food trucks and carts are a refl ection of the borough’s diverse appetite and a testament to entrepreneurship. But some Queens residents may feel a little anxious about ordering from a mobile food stand because there’s no way to determine whether the operators are abiding by sanitary and health guidelines. One local lawmaker wants to change all that. Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz introduced a bill last week that would create a letter-grading system similar to that which the Health Department currently has to rate brick-and-mortar restaurants. Th e system allows inspectors to rate an operator to ensure that proper food safety guidelines are being met, and the grades themselves enable diners to make smart choices when buying a meal. To us, this seems like a no-brainer. Any company large or small producing food and drink for the masses should be held to high food safety standards at all times. Th e City Council should pass Koslowitz’s bill, and the mayor should sign it into law shortly thereaft er. STORY: BREAKING: Police arrest suspect in murder of Howard Beach’s Karina Vetrano, report says SUMMARY: Six months later, a suspect has been taken into custody in connection to the brutal rape and murder of Karina Vetrano. REACH: 42,974 (as of Feb. 6, 2017).
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