22 THE QUEENS COURIER • MARCH 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 ARTIST SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS 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 RON TORINA EMILY DAVENPORT KATRINA MEDOFF, ANTHONY GIUDICE, ANGELA MATUA SUZANNE MONTEVERDI CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI 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: [email protected] for advertising e-mail: [email protected] 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. PIG ROAST IN ASTORIA// PHOTO BY ROBERT POZARYCKI 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 [email protected] (subject: Queens Snaps). Farewell, Madam Boro President Helen Marshall, the former borough president who died this weekend at the age of 87, will be remembered not just as a trailblazer, but also as one of the strongest voices Queens children ever had in local government. Th e fi rst African-American ever to be borough president, and the second female to serve the offi ce, Marshall’s tenure was marked with her fi rm commitment to boosting the borough’s libraries and public schools. For all the talk about the future of the public school system across the United States, Helen Marshall certainly recognized its importance and value to our society. She was a product of a public education and graduated from Queens College, a publicly funded institution of higher learning. Indeed, it would seem as if most of Marshall’s career was an eff ort to give back to the community that gave her so much. She became a public school teacher and founded the Langston Hughes Library prior to entering politics. She would advocate strongly for education while representing western Queens in Albany and in City Hall. As borough president, Marshall poured hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding toward school and library improvements. She helped build a Children’s Library in Jamaica that off ers a truly unique learning experience for any child entering its doors. She also funded the construction of a cultural center at Borough Hall to help promote programs refl ecting Queens’ amazing diversity. Th at cultural center now bears her name. Even though you won’t fi nd Helen Marshall’s name on many of the libraries renovated or public schools expanded through her eff orts, you’d be hard pressed to fi nd a library or a school in Queens that she did not work to improve in her 12 years in offi ce. Th ere were many other things which Marshall advocated as borough president – from encouraging tourists to “Discover Queens” (the motto of her tourism campaign) to promoting greater development across the borough. Marshall’s work to improve education and culture in Queens, however, will go down as the hallmark of her administration. What a wonderful legacy to leave behind. May she rest in peace knowing that she did so much to make the future of Queens so very bright. STORY: 7 line will not run to Manhattan during weekends in March as MTA continues $744M tech upgrades SUMMARY: The MTA has slowly been working to improve the congested and often unreliable 7 train with new technology, and to continue that work, the agency will stop service to Manhattan for four consecutive weekends in March. REACH: 27,390 (as of 3/6/17)
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