44 The Queens Courier • buzz • juLY 28, 2016 for breaking news visit www.qns.com buzz Newly open Target in Forest Hills receives mixed reactions from the community By Nicole Kuliyev editorial@qns.com/@QNS Target has officially opened up on 70-00 Austin St., Forest Hills, on Wednesday, July 20. The discount giant has replaced Barnes and Nobles, which closed in December. This new Target is following a “flexible-format” strategy, which means that the store is smaller and it caters to specific needs of their local customers by featuring apparel and accessories from local sports teams. The store even offers a New York Collection called Local Pride by Todd Snyder. This is the first flexible-format Target in New York. The store has signed a 15-year lease on its Forest Hills location. Target also provides fresh groceries, a variety of men’s and women’s apparel and accessories, health and beauty products, Target mobile and tech accessories, baby and children’s products, home items, and a CVS pharmacy. Forest Hills’ Target is housed on two levels of 21,000 square feet and it was designed with the needs of the community in mind, according to the store representative. The customer feedback was mixed. One man said, “So far, it’s good” and another admitted that having Target in the neighborhood is convenient. However, not all customers were entirely happy with the newcomer. “It’s okay. It’s just a little unnecessary since they have one in Rego Park,” said Raven Rothberg. “I’m pissed off with it. They cut down four trees to make this place. A lot of people are mad. There is no bookstore in Queens. This store does not belong in this neighborhood,” complained an angry customer. Queens does have one physical bookstore, the Astoria Bookshop. Also, a trio of former Barnes & Noble employees have set plans in motion to open another independently owned bookstore in Queens. Six other Target flexible-format locations are opening soon in Tribeca, Downtown Brooklyn at City Point, Elmont, N.Y., Freeport, N.Y., and Closer, N.J. QNS/Staff photo RICHER’S BAKERY & CAFé “Fine Continental Baking” • Cakes, Weddings, Custom Cakes • Decorative Layer Cakes • Chocolate Mousse Cake • Fresh Blueberry, Peach & Apple Cake • Cookie Platters • Italian Pastry & Many More Varieties • Gluten Free Brownies, Chocolate Chip Cookies and Cupcakes • Large Variety of Salads, Bagels & Coffee • Red Velvet Cake • Strawberry Cheesecake • Tropical Fruit Cheesecake Monday - Saturday 6aM to 7pM • Sunday 6aM to 6pM 249-14 Horace Harding Blvd. Little Neck (Exit 32 off LIE Service Road) • BLACK FOREST CAKE • CHEESECAKE • CANNOLIS • STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE • CHIFFON CAKE • NAPOLEONS • ECLAIRS 718 631-7004 • BREAD: RYE, CORN, PUMPERNICKEL • ROLLS • DANISH • CHOCOLATE MONDEL BREAD • HAMENTASHEN Enjoy BrEakfast & Lunch EvEryday outdoor cafE PLEnty of sEats PLEnty of frEE Parking Large Variety of iced coffee & tea & SandwicheS Enjoy Breakfast & Lunch 7 Days a Week in Our Café. Large variety of fresh breads, muffins, danish, rolls, & bagels, Eggs-any style/Spinach egg white omelettes, Smoked salmon w/capers, white fish, tuna, egg salad, & more! Broadway Stages hosts African students Dennis Gometz (far left), stage manager of Broadway Stages, and Stephen Greenwald, director of film and media initiatives from Wagner College (second from right), are pictured with students from a merit based open competition in Africa. They are either in the film or design industry and on their last week of a fiveweek program in the U.S. They stopped by the Glendale studios visiting the sets of the shows “Billions” on Showtime and “The Get Down,” coming soon to Netflix. They will be visiting President Obama in Washington, D.C., before leaving the United States. Passing the baton Over 20 years ago, Steve Mills walked through the doors of what was then called Booth Memorial Hospital to take the reins and create what is today a firstclass medical center now called NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens. Mills is moving on, going back to the Manhattan campus where he previously worked for 22 years. Over the last two decades of his leadership, the hospital is now recognized as one of Queens’ finest medical facilities. “I think my legacy is that I leave the hospital with unique professionals in every category of treatment from cancer to heart to diabetes to kidney specialists to orthopedists. There is no need to leave the borough except for a transplant,” Mills said with pride during a luncheon on Tuesday at Parkside Restaurant in Corona, where guests wished him well expressed their appreciation for his accomplishments. His successor as NewYork- Presbyterian/Queens CEO, Jaclyn Mucaria, will start on Aug. 1. Seen outside Parkside Restaurant are (from left to right): Bruce Bendell, Michael Meyer, Ruth Wagner, Art Dawson, Georgiana Reese, Claire Shulman, William Wissemann, Steve Mills, Lorrie Gattuso and Alex Rosa.
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