FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com MARCH 24, 2016 • The Queens Courier 17 THE COURIER/Photo by Raisa Camargo Business leaders enjoy breakfast in Bayside with youth groups Movers and shakers from across Queens broke bread together during the sixth-annual Samuel Field Y/Central Queens Y Business Council Breakfast on March 16 at Vivaldi Ristorante in Bayside. Guests had the opportunity to enjoy the most important meal of the day and network with each other. The organizers paid special tribute to Mark Hankin and Geoffrey Mazel of Hankin & Mazel PLLC and Mark Boccia of Bourbon Street and Austin’s Ale House and Catering. Shown from left to right are Ron Fatoullah, co-chair, honorees Mark Hankin, Jeff Fazel and Mark Baccia, Jerri Mendelson, Samuel Field Y executive director, and Helen Keit, co-chair. NEW 16-STORY HOTEL TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN LIC Near largest housing project in North America By Angela Mat ua [email protected]/@AngelaMatua A new hotel near the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City will span 16 stories, according to plans filed with the Department of Buildings. Flushing-based Ampiera Group is developing the 16,140-square-foot site at 38-70 12th St. The 139-room hotel will sit in a narrow, heavily industrialized road that also houses a laundromat and Friendship Baptist Church. It also sits one block away from the largest housing project in North America, Queensbridge Houses. Plans show that the first and 16th floors will be occupied by restaurants and each of the remaining floors will have 10 to 11 rooms each. An open parking lot with five spots will also be constructed and an underground garage will have enough room for 27 cars. The entire project totals 80,387 square feet of commercial space. A Howard Johnson Hotel that was completed in 2014 sits right across the street from this site. My Architect PC, an architecture firm based in Flushing, will design the project. THE COURIER/Photos by Raisa Camargo STARS RAFFLE GIVES BACK TO TWO WORTHY CHARITIES Schneps Communications and Star Network recently distributed the proceeds of a raffle held at their “40 Stars Under 40” event in Flushing last month to two local charities helping children locally and globally. In the left photo, Schneps Communications Publisher Victoria Schneps and Events Director Amy Amato present a $600 check Taryn Sacramone, director of the Queens Theatre in the Park. The donation will be used to fund children’s programming at the theatre. Above, Schneps and Amato presented another $600 check to the WIN Foundation’s George Onourah and Chetachi Dunkley- Ecton, which provides financial assistance to minority students in their pursuit of higher education. “PLANS SHOW THAT THE FIRST AND 16TH FLOORS WILL BE OCCUPIED BY RESTAURANTS AND EACH OF THE REMAINING FLOORS WILL HAVE 10 TO 11 ROOMS EACH.”
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