16 THE QUEENS COURIER • OCTOBER 6, 2016 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com Photo: Flickr Download this new Queens Sticker Pack for iOS 10 today! Show your Queens spirit with this new iOS sticker pack BY EMILY DAVENPORT [email protected]/@QNS If you’ve updated your iPhone or iPad to iOS 10, you’ve probably been bombarded with all of the new sticker packs that are available in the App Store. A new sticker pack called Queens – New York City Stickers has just hit the App Store that will let you fi ll your iMessages with the Queens pride that you have inside. Developed by Digital Natives Group, a digital marketing agency based in Long Island City, New York City Stickers became available in the App Store on Oct. 3 and is free to download. “We’re proud Queens-ites at Digital Natives Group,” said Ben Guttmann, Partner at Digital Natives Group. “When we saw that Apple was opening up for people to create stickers for iMessage, we knew we had to make something.” These custom stickers represent some of the most famous icons throughout the borough, including the 7 Train, the Unisphere, John F. Kennedy Airport and more. However, Digital Natives Group is looking to add to this sticker pack in the future. “We would love to add more stickers to the pack,” said Guttmann. “If there’s any that the community thinks we should add, they can reach out to us through our website, Facebook or Twitter.” Show off your Queens pride and download the app today! Queens – New York City Stickers requires iOS 10.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. College Point’s ‘day of outrage’ to stop pipe project BY SUZANNE MONTEVERDI [email protected] Local activists and community leaders will unite next weekend in an effort to protect the coastal environment and wildlife in the waters off College Point. MacNeil Park and its surrounding wetlands will be the site of a “day of outrage” on Saturday, Oct. 15. Organized by local nonprofi t Coastal P r e s e r v a t i o n Network (CPN), activists will bring attention to the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) plan to install a stormwater outfall pipe in MacNeil Park by the area’s wetlands and oyster reef and kayak launch site. The pipe would “dump polluted street runoff in this cove,” according to the group. “This city’s outfall plan would bring polluted street runoff into our seagrasses and oyster reefs. The DEP claims ‘it’s only rain water.’ But obviously, the rain also washes asphalt debris, roadsalt, deicing chemicals, sediment, oil from vehicles, cooking oil from restaurants, cigarette butts and the gamut onto our coast. It should not be placed here,” CPN said in a release. The event will also serve as a community cleanup and education day. Activists and local volunteers are invited to help clean up the beach from 2 p.m. until 3 p.m. and an educational beach science workshop led by CPN President Dr. James Cervino will begin at 3:30 p.m. State Senator Tony Avella and CPN President Dr. James Cervino are scheduled to both speak about DEP’s plans at 3 p.m. MacNeil Park is located at Poppenhusen Avenue near College Place. For more information about the event, visit CPN’s Facebook page or website. DEP declined to comment at this time. Whitestone residents implore developer to bring supermarket back to local shopping mall BY SUZANNE MONTEVERDI [email protected]/@smont76 Whitestone residents are working together to ensure a supermarket takes over the former Waldbaum’s location. The storefront at 153-01 10th Ave. in Whitestone Plaza has been vacant since Waldbaum’s closed back in November 2015 after over 30 years of service, leaving many community members without a local market to shop for their groceries. Nancy Mendlinger and several others Whitestone residents drafted and sent a petition to The Feil Organization — the developer who owns the shopping center — urging them to come to a lease agreement and bring a supermarket to the location. “We do need something,” Mendlinger said. “Many of us have been asking all the different supermarkets to come into the neighborhood.” Mendlinger was able to gather 133 signatures from Whitestone residents who feel the same way, and this Monday, Sept. 26, she sent them over to Feil Organization with a copy of the petition. “We would like you to make offers to the supermarkets with incentives for them to want to rent your property and bring a supermarket back to the area,” the letter to Feil explained. “We really need a supermarket here and would appreciate your participation in maintaining our community.” “This is a need for our quality of life in our community,” the letter continues. “We have many seniors that cannot drive or travel out of the town just to do their food shopping.” Mendlinger said that this was perhaps the most important reason of all that a supermarket take over the space once more. “We have a lot of seniors,” Mendlinger said. “There’s a lot of disabled people. There’s a lot of young people. We need a local supermarket.” Despite confl icting rumors that North Shore Farms, which was announced as an incoming tenant, was either no longer interested in the site or had signed a lease with Feil, a spokesperson for North Shore Farms said “nothing has changed.” “We continue to consider several possible locations, including one in Whitestone, for our next store,” the spokesperson said.
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