8 The QUEE NS Courier • SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 for breaking news visit www.qns.com Photo via Google Maps Secrets Gentlemen’s Club in Woodside was shut down by the NYPD. WOODSIDE STRIP JOINT SHUT FOR DRUGS, BOOZE VIOLATIONS By Angela Matua amatua@qns.com/@AngelaMatua A Woodside gentlemen’s club has been permanently shut down by the NYPD after the city found that patrons were buying and selling cocaine inside. Secrets Gentlemen’s Club, at 49-14 Queens Blvd., was permanently closed on Sept. 9 for several reasons, according ONSITE DOCTORS • EYE EXAMS • CONTACTS • 1 HOUR SERVICE • VISION PLANS ACCEPTED • SUNGLASSES • LOWEST PRICES WE ARE A GVS & DAVIS VISION PROVIDER Back to School BAY TERRACE SHOPPING CENTER 211-51 26 AVENUE • BAYSIDE, NY 11360 718.631.3699 *FREE Eye Exam with the purchase of glasses. 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Cocaine was sold out of the club several times, the spokesperson said, and the owners also broke several Alcoholic Beverage Control laws. The NYPD did not specify which laws were broken. Patrons of the club also committed a robbery in a nearby location, the NYPD said. Last November, a 38-year-old man was gunned down outside of the club. He was shot twice in the chest after a fight broke out at 4 a.m, according to the NY Post. “Secrets has been a bad business that brought violence to our community,” said Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer. “Just last year, a man was shot and killed outside the establishment. These aren’t the kinds of businesses we want or need in our neighborhood, and I’m pleased that the NYPD has taken action to shut the club down.” According to the Department of Buildings (DOB), Flushing-based building owner Larju Holding Corp. received a complaint on July 28 for doing construction on the building without a permit. The building has been operating as an adult establishment as early as 2005, according to complaints filed with the DOB. The Courier called Larju Holding Corp. but the number was disconnected. Calls to Secrets Gentlemen’s Club were not returned. Still mourning the loss of its leader, 110th Precinct Council learns of local crime drop By Domenick Rafter editorial@qns.com/@QNS Only a few weeks after losing its president, the 110th Precinct Community Council met in Corona on Sept. 8 to mourn her passing and hear about crime-fighting efforts from the precinct’s boss. Marta Lebreton, the vice president of the 110th Precinct Community Council struck a somber tone when she opened the organization’s first meeting back from the summer break. The council’s longtime president, Evelyn DeCoursey, died last month at age 82 after a battle with cancer. “She will be greatly missed,” Lebreton said, adding that though DeCoursey’s illness didn’t allow her to be at last month’s National Night Out event at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, the late president “worked tirelessly to make sure the event was a success.” Jesse Sligh, representing Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown at the meeting, also paid tribute to DeCoursey. “We knew Evelyn and we are sorry to hear of her passing,” he said. DeCoursey’s replacement will be chosen at a council election yet to be scheduled. Deputy Inspector Christopher Manson, the commanding officer of the 110th Precinct, said he would consult with the executive board of the community council on the logistics of when and how that election will be held. DeCoursey will be formally honored with a tribute at the council’s next meeting, scheduled to take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 13, at Flanders Field VFW Post 150, 51-11 108th St., Corona. Turning to crime, Manson spoke briefly about the dramatic drop of felonies in the precinct, which covers the neighborhoods of Corona and Elmhurst. Major crimes are down more than 22 percent in the last 28 days over the same period last year. Manson said the biggest problems the precinct has been dealing with are grand larcenies, which are largely due to credit card theft and fraud. Manson took comments from two residents that the meeting. The first brought to the inspector’s attention an ongoing issue with quality-oflife complaints in and around Clement Clark Moore Park in Elmhurst. At issue were people loitering and begging for money, drug use and other problems. “It’s not just at night, it’s all day, every day,” the Elmhurst resident told Manson. Manson said he knows of the issue and would respond, but noted that the police often deal with an issue only to have it fire up again. “We have hot spots, and what happens is we send resources to one spot, then once that problem is taken care of, we have to deploy them to another problem,” he explained, “and then the first problem flares up again.” The issue with resources came up again when another resident thanked him for putting a mobile unit at the 103rd Street-Corona Plaza 7 train station on Roosevelt Avenue. “We have really seen a difference there,” the resident told Manson. The inspector noted that the mobile unit would likely not stay in that spot, as it was positioned there as part of an ongoing operation against what he termed “a one-man crime spree” along Roosevelt Avenue. “We’ve had crimes occurring up and down the avenue and we will move resources to where we need them,” he said.
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