2 times • MARCH 10, 2016 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com Wyckoff Heights Medical Center gets $58.5M funding for programs Maspeth strip club where a Knicks player got shot and robbed remains closed By Anthony Giudice agiudice@ridgewoodtimes.com/@A_ GiudiceReport The CityScapes Gentlemen’s Club, located at 55-61 58th St. in Maspeth, remains shut down since a court order was placed on the building on Thursday, March 3, the 108th Precinct announced. The location’s restraining order, meaning no property could be removed from the strip club, remains in place as well. The court order was issued with assistance from the NYPD Legal Bureau. The club made headlines last December when New York Knicks player Cleanthony Early was robbed and shot in the knee on Dec. 30 after leaving the club. The following day, CityScapes was hit with two Molotov cocktails that flew through the front window and sparked a fire inside the establishment. Following these two, unrelated violent incidents, the NYPD began monitoring the location. Police even suspected drug deals were taking place at the strip joint, leading them to shut it down. According to police, the owners of the club will have to go to court, where a judge will hand down a punishment. By Anthony Giudice agiudice@ridgewoodtimes.com @A_GiudiceReport Ridgewood’s preeminent health care center is getting a booster shot of funds from the state. Wyckoff Heights Medical Center on the Ridgewood/Bushwick border has been awarded $58.5 million to fund their health center and ambulatory services programs as part of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s $672 million statewide investment to improve healthcare services. “Governor Cuomo has come through on his commitment to invest The March 4 announcement means new programs and services will become available for the medically underserved and expanded ambulatory services will soon be able to get patients to the care they need and deserve.” —Senator Martin Malavé Dilan. in North Brooklyn’s health care system; a system that has been in need of attention for quite some time,” said state Senator Martin Malavé Dilan. “The March 4 announcement means new programs and services will become available for the medically underserved and expanded ambulatory services will soon be able to get patients to the care they need and deserve.” The funds are being made available through Cuomo’s Capital Restructuring Financing Program, which was approved by the legislature as part of last year’s state budget. The program supports the goals of the Delivery System Reform Incentive Program (DSRIP), created in 2014 after an agreed to waiver between New York and the federal government resulted in $7.3 billion in Medicaid savings. Wyckoff Heights Medical Center was awarded funding for their Wyckoff Ambulatory Transformation Initiative, which garnered $52,926,666, and the DeKalb Federally Qualified Health Center, which was awarded $5,570,000. Friendly fire injures cop in Bushwick By Emilie Ruscoe and Katarina Hybenova editorial@ridgewoodtimes.com/@ridgewoodtimes One cop accidentally shot another during an undercover drug bust that resulted in a gunfight on a Bushwick street corner on Tuesday night, it was reported. Helicopters and other NYPD units were on the scene in Bushwick Tuesday night after a narcotics detective was shot in his left shoulder at Wilson Avenue and Troutman Street. He rushed to Elmhurst Hospital at approximately 6:15 p.m. Wednesday evening, authorities said. The officer is expected to survive. A second officer suffered a minor injury and was also being treated at Elmhurst Hospital, according to the NYPD. Law enforcement sources said that two suspects were arrested, one of whom is currently being treated for gunshot wounds at Bellevue hospital. A third suspect remains at large. “I didn’t hear shots, but I saw people running,” said Bri Brown, a bartender at Miles Bar, which is several doors down Wilson Avenue from the scene. “I looked outside and saw a plainclothes officer lying on the ground outside of the deli on the corner of Troutman and Wilson screaming that he’d been shot, and called 911.” Brown also confirmed that the incident took place shortly after 6 p.m. RIDGEWOOD TIMES/Photo by Anthony Giudice Photo credit: Alonzo Ma ciel Police officers standing in front of Miles Bar on Wilson Avenue.
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