June 2, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
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New playground for P.S. 221 kids
Community and students at Little Neck school united to design their new rec space
BY JENNA BAGCAL
Imagine a school playground
designed by kids, for kids. One
Little Neck public school and a
nonprofit organization have made
that dream a reality for hundreds
of students.
On May 28, the P.S. 221 The
North Hills School community
broke ground on the community
playground at 57-40 Marathon
Pkwy. The students and
community began thinking of
playground designs to transform
the school’s asphalt yards over a
year ago and voted on the designs
that would eventually become
their shared space.
Plans for the playground
will include a synthetic turf
field surrounded by a three-lane
running track, areas to play
volleyball and basketball, a junior
tennis court, benches, trees,
play equipment and an outdoor
classroom.
“When I first came here, one of
the things I do is I look at every
single playground,” recalled
Councilman Barry Grodenchik.
“Ms. Boullard and I were
standing somewhere over there,
I think on the second or third
floor, and I said to her, ‘Where is
the playground?’ And she said to
me, ‘I’m looking at it.’ So I said,
‘ This is not going to do. This is
not a playground; this is a lot
of asphalt.'”
Soon after, students including
fifth-grade student Izabella
Kohan got to work on designing
a state-of-the-art playground for
the current and future P.S. 221
community. Kohan and other
student designers helped to plan
the project as part of Trust for
Public Land’s NYC Playgrounds
Program. Since the program’s
inception in 1996, the nonprofit has
both designed and built 202 school
and community playgrounds in
the five boroughs.
RIDING HIGH IN COLLEGE POINT
The colors of Old Glory were proudly displayed during the College Point Memorial Day Parade on May 26.
Photo: Max Parrott/QNS
Phone scams
hit numerous
Qns. parishes
BY BILL PARRY
In this day and age,
not even Queens church
ladies are safe from
telephone scams.
The Diocese of Brooklyn
is warning that parishioners
and employees of several
Queens parishes have been
receiving text messages from
a scammer posing as local
pastors and even Bishop
Nicholas DiMarzio and
thousands of dollars have
been sent by those who have
fallen victim.
Rockaway’s Annette Clark,
a catechist and maker of
rosary beads at St. Rose of
Lima, recently received a
text message.
“It says hi Annette, I need
you to do me a favor, which is
not unusual,” Clark recalled.
The number had a 929
area code and said it was
from Father James Kuroly,
the Pastor of St. Rose of
Lima Church.
“That was from a number
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NYPD launches
‘Summer All-Out’
BY BILL PARRY
The NYPD is preparing to go on the offensive.
Beginning Thursday, May 23, the NYPD is
deploying hundreds of police officers to highcrime
neighborhoods to continue the historic
crime reduction in New York City.
Fast food slashing
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
Cops are looking for a
slasher who attacked his coworker
during an argument
behind a Maspeth fast
food restaurant.
According to police, at 6:30
p.m. on May 24, a 37-year-old
man got into a verbal dispute
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Photo via Google Maps, inset via Twitter/@NYPD104Pct
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