MARCH 19 - MARCH 25, 2015 • TIMES 3 Maspeth to get Pair wanted for slashing man’s throat in ridgewood hate crime BY ROBERT POZARYCKI rpozarycki@queenscourier.com @robbpoz Police released the video of two suspects wanted for slicing a 24-year-old man’s throat on a Ridgewood street early on the morning of March 12 in an attack authorities are calling a bias crime. The assault occurred at 2:20 a.m. in the vicinity of Seneca and Gates avenues. According to law enforcement sources, the victim and a female acquaintance were walking through the area when a suspect — described as a Hispanic male between 25 and 30 years old and 5 feet 8 inches tall with a medium build — ran up to the victim. The male suspect allegedly said in Spanish, “I’m going to kill you white boy,” then slashed the man’s throat with an unidentifi ed object. The perpetrator and his companion — described as a Hispanic female between 25 and 30 years old and 5 feet 4 inches tall — then fl ed. Offi cers from the 104th Precinct and EMS units responded to the scene. The victim was taken to a local hospital where he received numerous stitches. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website or can text their tips to CRIMES (274637), then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confi dential. BY SALVATORE LICATA slicata@queenscourier.com @Sal_Licata New and improved green infrastructure is coming to Maspeth. Over 40 different locations throughout the area will be the new home to bioswales, according to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). These curbside gardens are built to capture stormwater runoff before it can enter the sewer system and contribute to combined sewer overfl ows. According to the DEP, the installations are “critical to the city’s strategy to improve water quality in the waterways and green our streets.” The work is expected to start on or about March 30 and fi nish by June of 2016. The full project will cost the city nearly $3.5 million. Bioswales consist of a city tree, fl owers and plants on top of fi ve feet of soil specially engineered to absorb water naturally. By pulling in rainwater, they help keep the sewers from overfl owing. The DEP has invested more than $10 billion to improve water quality in the New York City harbor, which is now the cleanest it has been in more than a century of testing. They have committed to certain milestone projects over the next 20 years, the fi rst of which in 2015 is to install right-of-way bioswales and stormwater greenstreets in specifi c priority Combined Sewer Overfl ow (CSO) tributary areas, one of which is Newtown Creek. One way to keep the water quality pristine is to reduce CSO that will ultimately discharge a mixture of untreated sewage and stormwater runoff into the harbors when it rains too heavily for the system to handle. The building of these bioswales aims to help eliminate some of those problems. There is a large holding tank under each curbside garden, which will help to retain water during heavy rainstorms. The water will then be used by the plants above and help to keep CSO from running into the harbor. This project will ultimately benefi t Newtown Creek, which presently does not meet the water quality standards of the city. BIOSWALES Screenshot via NYPD Photo courtesy of the Department of Environmental Protection THE COURIER/Photo by Liam La Guerre More than 40 curbside bioswales—such as the one pictured above—will soon be installed in the northern Maspeth area.
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