4 JANUARY 19, 2017 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM First seeds of ‘QueensWay’ park may be planted in Glendale, F.H. ARE YOU TIRED OF MISSING TEETH LOOSE OR DENTURES? MINI DENTAL IMPLANTS COULD BE THE ANSWER! WE HAVE DENTAL IMPLANTS OF DIFFERENT SHAPES & SIZES THAT ALLOW US TO BEST MEET YOUR NEEDS & BUDGET! • Great for replacing missing teeth or stabilizing loose, uncomfortable dentures • No more suffering from pain while eating or embarrassment while smiling • Financing options available Call today to schedule your FREE evaluation with needed X-rays Robert P. Cukier, DDS | Glendale Family Dental 76-01 Myrtle Avenue Glendale, NY 11385 718-386-2655 (718) 804-5579 | WWW.MINIDENTALIMPLANTSGLENDALENY.COM Personal Injury - Workers' Compensation - Criminal Defense - Real Estate ARRESTED? INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT? INJURED ON THE JOB? INJURED AT A CONSTRUCTION SITE? INVOLVED IN A BUS OR TRACTOR-TRAILER ACCIDENT? OUR LAWYERS ARE AVAILABLE WHEN EMERGENCIES HAPPEN 24 HOURS A DAY AND WE HAVE RECOVERED MILLIONS FOR OUR INJURED CLIENTS! WE ALSO SPEAK FRENCH-CREOLE, GREEK, RUSSIAN, AND SPANISH! The Grigoropoulos Law Group PLLC, is a law firm serving clients in all five New York boroughs, as well as Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties. We represent clients who are seriously injured as a result of motor vehicle accidents, slip/trip and fall accidents, constructions accidents or accidents in the workplace. Our experience coupled with our "shark" attitude sets us apart from other firms and our attorneys know what will drive litigation and what wins cases. riminal cases defending felony and misdemeanor charges! Call today for a free consultation! THE GRIGOROPOULOS LAW GROUP PLLC. Chrissy Grigoropoulos, Esq. 60-93 Myrtle Avenue - Suite 1 Ridgewood NY 11385 (718) 249-7447 (929) 900-LAW1 www.GrigorLawGroup.com Attorney Advertisement Founding Partner BY ANTHONY GIUDICE AGIUDICE@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM @A_GIUDICEREPORT As the debate rages on about what to do with the unused Rockaway Beach Branch Line of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), The Trust for Public Land is focusing its efforts on turning the 3.5-mile stretch of railway into a beautiful park ranging from Rego Park to Ozone Park, called the QueensWay. Specifically, the organization is eyeing a half-mile section of the linear park straddling the Glendale/Forest Hills border to plant the park’s fi rst foothold. That section is named the “Metropolitan Hub” and runs along the tracks from Metropolitan Avenue down to Union Turnpike. For more than a half century, these LIRR tracks have lain abandoned as trees and undergrowth have begun to spring up, trash and litter has piled up, and drug and alcohol paraphernalia are strewn about. In 2011, the advocacy group Friends of the QueensWay was formed to see something better become of this land. Recently, the Friends of the QueensWay joined forces with The Trust for Public Land, a not-for-profi t organization dedicated to preserving open space and creating parks for people in and around cities. “Our essential goal is to have every resident of a city in the U.S. have a park, playground, trail or greenway within a 10-minute walk from home, and we are working toward that goal,” said Adrian Benepe, senior vice president and director of city park development at The Trust for Public Land. According to Benepe, New York City ranks seventh on the Parks Score — an assessment of the country’s 100 largest cities as to how well they provide parks to their residents — with 97 percent of New Yorkers living within a 10-minute walk to a park, playground, trail or greenway. “New York does very well, but there are still pockets of the city where they have very little park access,” Benepe added. “One of those pockets is down in Ozone Park where there are very few parks and we’re working to address that. The QueensWay would provide a major antidote to the park desert which is particularly bad in Ozone Park. Ozone Park, despite its name having ‘Park’ in it, has almost no parks.” In order to implement the QueensWay, The Trust for Public Land has broken the 3.5-mile, 47-acre space into six distinct sections. The notfor profi t was funded to design a half mile of the route, and chose the “Metropolitan Hub” to be the fi rst to get designed. This would provide travelers an alternate and safe way into Forest Park, and students at the local schools would get an outdoor educational space. The Glendale ballfi elds would also benefi t from getting food concessions, batting cages and bleachers.
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