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QUEENS WEEKLY, JUNE 16, 2019
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Multiple sources
confirmed rumors of
the tennis club sale back
in December 2018. The
sources shared that former
club president George
Pauliny was looking to sell
the property without the
knowledge of many vested
club members.
Pauliny allegedly
presented the plan to 11
official board members
in September but the club
president instructed them
to keep it a secret from
the 37 vested members of
the over 100-year-old
tennis club.
The club president and
board members privy to the
plan compelled members to
vote on a contract they had
drafted, which resulted in
a vote of 39 to 9 in favor
of the sale.
Developers would
then reportedly raze the
club grounds and fully
and partially vested club
members would earn
money based on time served
on the board. Sources
said that each member
had the potential to earn
$8,400 per year served.
A month after news
surfaced, the community
rallied together in the
hopes of saving the
beloved tennis club.
Bayside Historical Society
(BHS) organized a rally
to try and convince the
tennis club board to not go
through with the sale.
“An alternate plan that
would develop a portion
of the club, while keeping
the clubhouse and a
number of courts intact
has been presented to the
club’s Board of Directors,
but unfortunately was
kept from the entire
voting membership to
consider,” BHS President
Paul DiBenedetto
told the crowd at the
January rally.
DiBenedetto and others
at the rally expressed
their displeasure with the
sale but said that if a sale
did occur, they hoped the
NSTRC would preserve
the historic clubhouse and
several tennis courts.
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Alleged robbers behind 33 capers spotted in Astoria
suspects obtained from
a surveillance camera
located at 39th Avenue and
30th Street in Astoria.
Cops described as
black men between the
ages of 16 and 25 years
old. The first suspect
was last seen wearing
a black baseball hat, a
multicolored hooded
sweatshirt, and light blue
jeans. The second was last
seen wearing a backwards
black baseball hat and a
black hooded sweatshirt.
The third suspect was
last seen wearing a black
du-rag, black sweatshirt,
and headphones.
As of press time, the
suspects were still at large.
Anyone with information
in regard to the identity
of these individuals is
asked to call the NYPD’s
Crime Stoppers Hotline
at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477)
or for Spanish, 1-888-
57-PISTA (74782). All
calls and messages are
kept confidential.
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Photos courtesy of the NYPD