14
QUEENS WEEKLY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2019
Astoria
Constantinides’ $300,000
endowment will go to
street improvements
including median work,
sidewalk extensions,
a new left turn bay
for all vehicles and a
new crosswalk.
While the councilman
held a workshop on this
issue with DOT in 2015,
the changes that came
out of those discussions
were focused on parking
times and other soft
forms of road calming.
In 2016, a van struck
and ki l led a toddler
on Astoria Boulevard
and 92nd Street as
the mother fixed her
strol ler.
The accident
underscored the
demand for concrete
i n f r a s t r u c t u r e
work in the area.
Constantinides’ of fice
wil l provide funding
for the Department
of Transportation to
implement. He says the
safety infrastructure
is the first step in his
what feel needs to be a
conversation around the
redesign of the Astoria
Boulevard to make it
safer for pedestrians
and cyclists.
“If you live on one
side of the Astoria
Boulevard, and you
want to get a quart
of milk on the other
side, it shouldn’t be a
dangerous endeavor,”
said Constantinides.
The end goal, he
says, is to enable the
street to function like
part of a neighborhood
rather than a traf fic
corridor for cars to get
from one end of Queens
to the other. With that
broader goal, this is
just the first step.
“It’s as a strong
down payment to
get things done on
Astoria Boulevard,”
Constantinides said.
Reach reporter
Max Parrott by
email at mparrott@
schnepsmedia.com or by
phone at (718) 260-2507.
Continued from Page 1
Teacher
of Paulino’s Ridgewood
home on Aug. 27, Paulino
allegedly admitted to
downloading and trading
child pornography on
his cellphone.
During the search,
Paulino handed over his
phone and password to
the FBI, who allegedly
found numerous images
and videos of children
engaged in sexually
explicit conduct.
QNS has reached out
to the Department of
Education and is awaiting
comment.
“Teachers are trusted
by parents to protect and
educate their children,
which makes the thought
of a teacher allegedly
downloading illegal child
pornography all that more
disturbing,” stated FBI
Assistant Director-in-
Charge William F. Sweeney.
“The FBI New York Child
Exploitation and Human
Trafficking Task Force
works every day to stop
predators from exploiting
children, and further
victimizing those exposed
to hands on offenders who
create images shared on
the internet.”
Paulino is being
prosecuted as a part of
Project Safe Childhood,
a nationwide initiative
launched by the
Department of Justice
in May 2006 to combat
the growing epidemic of
child sexual exploitation
and abuse. For more
information about Project
Safe Childhood, please visit
www.projectsafechildhood.
gov.
Reach reporter Emily
Davenport by email at
edavenport@qns.com or by
phone at (718) 260-2576.
Continued from Page 1
Eric Paulino was arrested for possessing child pornography on Aug. 27.
Photo via Facebook
/schnepsmedia.com
/www.projectsafechildhood
link
