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SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
CB7 gives the green light
Board approves development projects in Whitestone and College Point
Community Board 7 members listen to a proposed commercial development rezoning in Whitestone at the meeting held at the Union Care Plaza Center
in Flushing. Photo by Carlotta Mohamed
Jamaica-based
landlord fi ned
for ICE threat
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New hot pot restaurant Cuomo signs Simotas’ rape bill
set to open in Bayside
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BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
Community Board 7 members
on Monday voted in approval of a
two-story warehouse building in
College Point and a commercial development
rezoning in Whitestone.
A special permit zoning resolution
was granted to modify the
existing one-story manufacture
warehouse at 18-17 130 St. in College
Point with a proposed twostory
enlargement and front and
side yard. The building will contain
5,965.40 square feet of floor
area, the maximum permitted in
the M1-1 zoning district, and will
provide seven parking spaces on
the ground floor.
“The main glitch is we’re in the
College Point Industrial Park and
the purpose of the park was that
new developments within the Col-
BY MAX PARROTT
A New York City judge recommended
on Sept. 12 that a Jamaica
based landlord pay $17,000 to
a tenant after threatening to call
Immigration and Customs and
Enforcement on them.
The New York City Commission
on Human Rights (the Commission)
brought this discrimination
lawsuit on behalf of the
tenant Holly Ondaan against her
former landlord Dianna Lysius.
An administrative judge recommended
damages of $12,000 for
emotional distress and a civil
penalty of $5,000, according to the
Office of Administrative Trials
and Hearings.
The commission’s lawyers
alleged that the Lysius discriminated
against Ondaan by sending
her a series of text messages calling
her an illegal immigrant and
threatening to contact ICE after
Ondaan missed rental payments.
They argued this constitutes
a violation of City Human Rights
Law, which makes it illegal for
landlords to discriminate the
BY JENNA BAGCAL
East meets West at a new hot pot restaurant
coming to Bayside next month.
Standing at 39-32 Bell Blvd. is Shabulixius,
the brainchild of Long Island chef and co-owner
Shirley King. After working for 20 years at renowned
restaurants and hotels in the greater
BY BILL PARRY
For far too long rapists
got away with their crimes
in New York State due to
an extremely short statute
of limitations, according to
Queens Assemblywoman
Aravella Simotas. But things
are about to change.
Governor Andrew Cuomo
signed into law Wednesday
legislation that the Astoriabased
lawmaker sponsored
which extends the statute
of limitations to 20 years for
second degree rape and to
ten years for third degree
rape up from 5 years under
prior law, giving survivors
more time to bring criminal
charges or civil claims
against their attackers.
“There has been an ongoing
and pervasive culture
of sexual harassment and
abuse in our society, and it
is made word by the fact that
victims of second and third
degree rape only had five
Flanked by actresses Julianne
Moore (l.) and Mira Sorvino, Gov.
Andrew Cuomo signs a law extending
rape state of limitations.
Courtesy of Governor’s office
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