36 THE QUEENS COURIER • OCTOBER 22, 2015 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com editorial THE QUEENS PUBLISHER & EDITOR CO-PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF VP, EVENTS, WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA ART DIRECTOR ASSISTANT TO PUBLISHER ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR ARTISTS STAFF REPORTERS CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS WEB EDITOR EVENTS MANAGER CLASSIFIED MANAGER CONTROLLER PRESIDENT & CEO VICE PRESIDENT VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS BOB BRENNAN ROBERT POZARYCKI AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ NIRMAL SINGH ALAN SELTZER STEPHEN REINA RON TORINA, JENNIFER DECIO, CHERYL GALLAGHER ANGY ALTAMIRANO, KATRINA MEDOFF, ANTHONY GIUDICE ANGELA MATUA, ALINA SURIEL CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI ANGY ALTAMIRANO DEMETRA PLAGAKIS 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.queenscourier.com editorial e-mail: editorial@queenscourier.com for advertising e-mail: ads@queenscourier.com Entire Contents Copyright 2015 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. What are you doing for Halloween? “I’ll be going to a party with my friends. I’m going as Silent Bob from the show ‘Jay and Silent Bob.’” Aaron Janez BY BROOKE SMITH “I’ll be taking both of my kids trick-or-treating to the businesses along Bell Boulevard. My son is going to be Super Mario and my daughter is going to be a baby duckling.” Alison Gioconda “I don’t have a costume yet … I want to be something original, like maybe even a witch or a zombie or any other popular horror movie star.” Johnathon Clauzel “I’m taking my kids trick-or-treating early this year. My daughter’s going as a poodle and my son’s going to be a fi refi ghter.” Diana Sosci “I have to go to a birthday party. I don’t think I’ll be dressing up.” Louis Lee “I’ll probably be working on Halloween, but if I were to dress up it would be something sexy.” Yena Park street talk “I usually don’t dress up, but I’m feeling tempted this year. I was thinking of being an extraterrestrial.” Hussein “I will be going to the village for work. I’ll be going as a brand ambassador for the company Balance, which promotes love and acceptance amongst the gay and lesbian community.” Lia Parisyan SNAPS QUEENS The fall harvest at The Queens County Farm Museum, which sells the produce at an on-site farmers market Photo by Alina Suriel Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! Submit them to us via our Instagram @queenscourier, Facebook page, tweeting @queenscourier or by emailing editorial@queenscourier.com (subject: Queens Snaps). No bus terminal on Flushing waterfront The corner of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing is Queens’ version of Times Square: bustling with business, jam-packed with pedestrians and heavily congested with vehicles of all kinds, particularly buses. No fewer than 21 different bus lines either terminate or pass through within a three-block radius of the intersection. There’s a good reason for this: the intersection is steps away from two of Queens’ busiest train stations: the Main Street stop on the 7 line and the Flushing-Main Street station on the Long Island Rail Road’s Port Washington branch. For anyone who has had to commute through Flushing, it seems only natural to think that something must be done to make order out of such transit chaos. Those involved with the Flushing West zoning initiative are now open to studying the feasibility of creating a bus terminal in the neighborhood. Rather than being at the heart of it all, however, the planners are considering putting this terminal along the Flushing Creek waterfront, where planners hope to create a brand-new neighborhood out of what is largely an industrial and commercial area. Building a bus terminal or station in Flushing is a great idea, but it makes no sense to build it on the waterfront, three blocks away from the heart of Flushing and (more importantly) two of Queens’ busiest train stations. Moreover, a waterfront bus terminal would add buses to an already congested and overburdened College Point Boulevard, which many drivers use as an alternative to the traffi c nightmare that is the Van Wyck Expressway. Finding a solution to Flushing’s traffi c woes won’t be an easy fi x. Any solution, however, must be closer to the trains rather than to the waterfront. Queens at your fi ngertips at QNS.com This August, The Queens Courier reached an online milestone: 425,691 page views online during the month, with 14,603 average daily clicks. We thank our loyal readers on the Internet, in Queens and around the world, for helping us achieve this all-time high. We reached this milestone with a website that had very limited uses. It was never meant to be a permanent website, as for the last 18 months, we’ve been hard at work building a new online home for The Courier and our sister publications in Queens that really represents your needs. So here is QNS.com — your home for news, events, sales, businesses, community talk and much more, your entire neighborhood right at your fi ngertips. We already cover Queens like no other publication, and this website will enable us to expand our reach even further. What’s more, you’ll be part of it every step of the way. By signing up for a free account, you get to sound off on important issues in your neighborhood, advertise events, post classifi eds and connect with thousands of others across Queens. The Courier’s longtime motto is “We’re all about you,” and QNS.com certainly embodies our mantra. QNS.com is all about you, and we want all of you to participate and enjoy everything it has to offer.
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