March 3, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
Rego Park vandal caught: NYPD
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
Detectives charged a 12-
year-old boy for scrawling
hateful symbols and words
across a Rego Park schoolyard
last week, the NYPD
announced Feb. 27.
Police did not release
the identity of the suspect
due to his age, but said he
faces a charge of aggravated
harassment. After being
arraigned, he was released
into his mother’s custody,
Chief of Detectives Dermot
Shea tweeted.
“No matter the face of hate,
the NYPD, partnered with
the community, has ZERO
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tolerance,” Shea added.
Law enforcement
sources said the boy wrote
swastikas and anti-Semitic
phrases across the schoolyard
of P.S. 139, located at
93-06 63rd Drive, sometime
on Feb. 22. School officials
discovered the hateful im-
BY MARK HALLUM
Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul gave
her views on the Amazon HQ2
deal folding last week — but she’s
not buying some of the theories
fielded by other public figures to
explain the e-commerce giant’s
withdrawal from its Long Island
City deal.
Hochul, who saw first-hand
the economic decline of the
Rust Belt as a long-time politician
representing Buffalo, told
TimesLedger her side of the
story on Feb. 21 about officials
attempting to bring a record
number of jobs while competing
against other states for a deal
that could have pumped $27 billion
into the economy over the
next decade.
More than that, Hochul
claims New York missed the
opportunity to surpass Silicon
Valley as a leader in tech jobs.
“It was painful to witness the
implosion of what could have
been the most significant economic
development project in
the history of the state of New
York,” Hochul said. “It is a loss
that will be difficult to recover
from. The loss of revenue to the
state, the loss to the suppliers,
loss to the local businesses that
would benefit from an infusion
of workers walking into little
bakeries and delicatessens. And
even Queensbridge; there were
a lot of people that were anxiously
awaiting what opportunities
Amazon could bring to them
and giving them the opportunity
to get real job training in skills
that are highly marketable.”
After city Economic Development
Corporation President
James Patchett said at a business
event earlier in the week
that Amazon was finally turned
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Daiso Japan to open
new store in Flushing
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The African American Heritage Committee recognized outstanding community leaders at the Helen Marshall
Cultural Center in Queens Borough Hall in celebration of Black History Month. Photo by Nat Valentine
BY BILL PARRY
For more than 20 years, residents
of Edsall Avenue in Glendale
have complained to Community
Board 5 and multiple city agencies
about the flooding that takes place
on their street every time it rains,
leaving thick mud behind whenever
the water recedes.
State Assemblyman Mike Miller
and state Sen. Joseph Addabbo
toured the area with representatives
of the Department of Transportation
and the Department of
Environmental Protection for the
last seven years.
“They couldn’t do nothing,
they’d always tell us,” Miller said.
Last March, Board 5 District
Manager Gary Giordano met the
agencies on Edsall Avenue and was
told Giordano there is no sewer
along the roadway, so there is only
one catch basin on the stretch from
73rd Place to 71st Place.
Complete reconstruction of the
road would be the best solution,
they told Giordano, and that simply
resurfacing the roadway would
not help.
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
A new Japanese retail store known for
selling quality items at extremely low prices
is making its grand opening debut in Flushing
in March.
Daiso Japan, known for its wide selection of
Nazi symbolism was found scrawled
across the play area at PS 139 in Rego
Park. Photos via Koslowitz
City has plan
to fi x neglected
Glendale street
Lieutenant governor talks Amazon
Hochul claims New York missed most ‘signifi cant’ opportunity in state history
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