44 The QUEE NS Courier • business • february 21, 2013 for breaking news visit www.queenscourier.com business s THE COURIER/Photo by Terence M. Cullen At the ribbon cutting were Dr. Stephen Rimar, NYHQ senior vice president; State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky; Councilmember Dan Halloran; Katherine Heretis, M.D.; Ambrose Pipia, M.D.; Domenick Acquista, M.D.; Dr. George Heinrich, NYHQ’s board chair; and Stephen Mills, NYHQ’s president and CEO. NYHQ right next door Officials cut ribbon on community focused medical facility QUEENS LIBRARY TO BE LITERARY LANDMARK The Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center of the Queens Library will be nationally recognized on Saturday, February 9 as a Literary Landmark by United for Libraries, as the first public institution named for the famed poet/author of the Harlem Renaissance. In her letter to Queens Library C.O.O Tom Galante, United for Libraries Executive Director Sally G. Reed said, “I am most pleased that you’ve applied for this designation for a man who had such significant impact on African-American literature and American literature generally.” Hughes wrote over 860 poems in his lifetime, and was heralded as an author of short stories, plays, essays, anthologies and as a journalist from the 1920’s until his death in 1967. Although Hughes lived in Harlem, the library was named in his honor in 1969 when it opened for public service. Langston Hughes Community Library is home of the Black Heritage Reference Center of Queens County, housing New York State’s largest public circulating collection of print and non-print material on the black experience. This collection is now estimated at over 45,000 titles, including approximately 1,000 volumes of theses and dissertations on Black Literature. The ceremony will be part of the 28th Annual Langston Hughes Celebration, with a plaque presentation by Rocco Staino, United for Libraries board member emeritus and director of the Empire State Center for the Book. Activities will continue with a screening of the biographical film “Hughes Dream Harlem” by Darralyn Hudson, a lecture by author Jamal Joseph with a special musical rendition of Hughes’ poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by the IMPACT Performing Ensemble. The day continues with “The Jacob Lawrence Migration Series” by MOMA staff member Marcia Garcia, a lecture on Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance by historian Rashidah Ismaili Abu Bakr. Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall will present six scholarships for African American Heritage Month scholarships, and the program will close with a musical performance, “Music from the Mind of the Trumpet” by Eddie Allen and Friends. BY TERENCE M. CULLEN [email protected] The idea was that patients could have a community focused medical facility right in their own neighborhood. D o c t o r s , administrators and elected officials helped christen the new New York Hospital Queens (NYHQ) internal medical practice in Whitestone Village, at 14-02 150th Street, on Tuesday, February 12. The facility, which officially opened in October, was established to actually have physicians in the community, according to Dr. George Heinrich, NYHQ’s board chair. “It’s been great,” Heinrich said of the facility’s success thus far. He added that the facility will become even better “as we grow and see what community needs are.” Heinrich helped cut the ceremonial ribbon with State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, Councilmember Dan Halloran, Ambrose Pipia, M.D., Domenick Acquista, M.D., Katherine Heretis, M.D., Stephen S. Mills, NYHQ’s president and CEO, and Stephen Rimar, M.D., senior vice president for Medical Affairs and Continuous Quality Improvement. Friendly skies AMERICAN AIRLINES, US AIRWAYS MERGE BY ANGY ALTAMIRANO [email protected] American Airlines and US Airways agreed on a merger last week that will create the world’s biggest airline and bring the number of major U.S. carriers down to four. The new airline will still be called American Airlines but will be run by US Airways CEO Doug Parker. On the new airline’s website promoting “the new American is arriving,” the companies ensure their customers will enjoy all the connections they have come to depend on – plus many more as the two entities come together. According to the website, the larger new American Airlines will have more than 6,700 daily flights to 336 locations in 56 countries worldwide. Also, the airline hopes to “offer flights to more destinations, improved schedule options and worldwide connectivity through the oneworld Alliance.” The new American Airlines will have the greatest service in the central regions and across the East Coast of the United States, with an extended presence and solid network in the west. With news of the merger, frequent flyers are left wondering how their future travels will be affected and how their frequent flyer miles and points will translate over. “Some of the frequent flyers have voiced some dismay over some of the routes that will be changed and now can’t fly their usual routes or from their usual airport,” said Dave Ma, 22, student from Flushing who was recently part of a flyer talk forum. Although some flyers are worried prices will soar due to less competition, others are confident this merger will bring the new airline’s rates down. “This union will allow the larger airline to take all the routes and it’s probably better for the customers since there will be less competition. They can charge less than other airlines and I think in the end it will affect other airlines, not flyers of American Airlines or US Airways,” said Diana Beck, 21. Both airlines acknowledged the full merger will take at least 18 months.
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