20 TIMES • FEBRUARY 25, 2016 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com Jump into the time machine for OLD TIMER a trip back to May 1994 If you have any memories and photos that you’d like to share about “Our Neighborhood: The Way it Was,” write to The Old Timer, c/o Ridgewood Times, 62-70 Fresh Pond Rd., Ridgewood, NY 11385, or send an email to editorial@ ridgewoodtimes.com. All mailed pictures will be carefully returned upon request. So much for Staten Island Chuck, who predicted on Groundhog Day of this year that New York City would experience an early spring. Since Chuck made his Feb. 2 prognostication, New York City instead experienced an all-time record low temperature and a few minor snowstorms. As we inch toward spring, let’s warm ourselves up a little by looking back at an issue of the Ridgewood Times and Times Newsweekly from the spring of 1994 — May 5, to be exact. Here’s what was happening in Our Neighborhood: • The top of the front page had a dramatic photo of a car crash involving a drunk driver on Cypress Hills Street near the Interboro (present-day Jackie Robinson) Parkway in Glendale and a story on the right about the arrest of a 17-year-old male who slashed a teenager on a Ridgewood street the previous month. The 15-year-old slashing victim needed more than 100 stitches to close the wound he received while involved in an apparent dispute on Palmetto Street between Onderdonk and Seneca avenues on the night of April 29. • Another front page photo showed a much happier occasion: the 75th anniversary dinner-dance for the Ridgewood VFW Post 123. Among those who participated in the event were Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan; Marge Markey, then a representative for Borough President Claire Shulman; and Deputy Inspector Gary Foote, who was then commanding offi cer of the 104th Precinct. • Nolan also appeared in a front page story urging Schools Chancellor Ramon Cortines to close public schools on Brooklyn-Queens Day, also known as Anniversary Day, in June. The annual celebration in Brooklyn and Queens recognized the founding of the fi rst Sunday schools in both boroughs and included an annual parade through Ridgewood. The 1993-94 public school calendar indicated Brooklyn-Queens Day as a school day, which contradicted existing state law, Nolan pointed out. More than 20 years later, Brooklyn- Queens Day would be taken off the public school calendar permanently to allow for a public school holiday observing the Asian Lunar New Year. • Page 4 featured a story from the Community School Board 24 meeting in Glendale in which parents were outraged by a resolution from board member Mary Cummins seeking that public schools prohibit any sexual education which, according to her resolution, may encourage children to engage in sexual acts. Board members objected that the resolution’s strong language was read into the record. Then Community Board 4 District Manager Rose Rothschild was applauded when she remarked that the educational welfare of the district’s children had taken a back seat to “a whole bunch of nonsense. I’m embarrassed.” School Board 24, however, passed the resolution. • Page 5 had a story from the C o m m u n i t y Board 6 meeting in which a Department of Environmental P r o t e c t i o n (DEP) offi cial updated residents about u p g r a d e s to water meters. As of April 27, 90 percent of water meters had been installed in the Board 6 area; the meters allowed the DEP to become computerized and install a centralized phone bank to better monitor water consumption and, more importantly, charge consumers proper rates. • Check out these two pictures below. One is a group photo of the annual Law Day event at I.S. 73 in Maspeth, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Maspeth. The other is of I.S. 77 students Marvin Mendoza and Suzanne Angioletti who placed third and fi rst, respectively, in School District 24’s Storytelling Contest. • There were many deals to be had with Mother’s Day just around the corner in the May 5 issue. Jay Rose, a popular clothing store at 68-19 Fresh Pond Rd. in Ridgewood, offered 20 percent off on sportswear, knits and slips, as well as a raffl e for a $200 basket of goodies. Niederstein’s Restaurant, at 69-16 Metropolitan Ave. in Middle Village, offered a special Mother’s Day menu featuring New York cut sirloin steak with peppercorn sauce for $21.50; prime rib for $19.95; roast duckling with orange sauce at $17.95 and stuffed broiled fl ounder fi let for $17.50. Nettle’s Sports Bar, located at 79-11 Myrtle Ave. in Glendale and named for the former Yankees third baseman Graig Nettles, featured a $15.95 prix-fi xe Mother’s Day menu for parties of six or more; a designated mother in the group got her meal for free. • Looking for a home? ERA Top Realty offered a three-family home at 70-39 69th St. in Glendale for $245,000; a one-family semidetached home with a garage at 77-20 76th St. in Glendale for $180,000 and a “handyman’s special” off Grove Street in Ridgewood — a two-family home with a full basement and backyard, for $150,000. Renters could fi nd with Phillips Realtors a three-bedroom apartment in Ridgewood for $800 per month; a two-bedroom bungalow in Glendale for $800 per month; and a six-room home near Juniper Valley Park in Middle Village for rent at $1,300 per month. bers This picture shows students at I.S. 73 in Maspeth during their Law Day event in 1994.
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