4 MARCH 22, 2018 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Trash fi nally taken
out at Glendale
hoarding site
BY RYAN KELLEY
RKELLEY@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
TWITTER @R_KELLEY6
Aft er a Ridgewood Times
report earlier this month
about a Glendale building
where piles of trash fi lled the basement
and fi rst-fl oor apartment, a
clean-out crew fi nally came on
March 19 to tidy things up.
The six-family residence at 70-15
65th Pl. has racked up more than
30 violations with the Department
of Housing Preservation and Development
(HPD), caused a horde
of rats to inhabit the block and
clouds of fl ies to infest the apartments
and neighboring buildings.
According to Kathleen Midlaw, a
resident of the building since
2006, her landlord, Maria Hlawaty,
enlisted someone to clean
the place out aft er facing steep
fi nes from the Fire Department.
“That’s why she’s so resentful,”
Midlaw said. “When the Fire
Department came, she was in the
hall and acted like she didn’t know
what was going on. She didn’t want
to let them into the basement.”
But the fi re offi cials were stern
with Hlawaty and convinced
her to open the basement door,
Midlaw said. Aft er assessing the
damage and leaving with an “oh
wow” reaction, Midlaw said, the
offi cials returned an hour later to
give Hlawaty her summons.
At fi rst, Hlawaty blamed Midlaw
for everything and showed
no remorse for the condition of
the building. She even threatened
to not renew Midlaw’s lease and
refused to fi x an electrical problem
in her apartment. HPD records
show a violation for failure
to “provide a safe and adequate
supply of electric service to the
fi xtures electrical outlet” in the
kitchen of Midlaw’s apartment.
When the two were able to
speak again during the initial
cleanup on March 19, however,
Midlaw said her landlord was
coming around. Hlawaty told her
that she will get a new lease “once
this is all over,” Midlaw said.
While the building is on its
way to being waste-free, Midlaw
is still spending hours every day
killing fl ies in her apartment and
said that an exterminator will certainly
have to come to the building
too. Even though it was two years
in the making, Midlaw is grateful
that progress is being made.
Hlawaty has not yet responded
to a request for comment.
Bushwick teen cuff ed for
deadly Ridgewood stabbing
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM / @
ROBBPOZ
Detectives arrested a Bushwick
teenager early on Monday
morning for his alleged role in
a deadly stabbing in Ridgewood earlier
this month.
Luis Paredes, 16, of Putnam Avenue
faces second-degree murder and robbery
charges for the stabbing death of
Glendale‘s Daniel Atkinson, 17, on the
evening of March 9.
Atkinson and two others were found
with stab wounds at the corner of Palmetto
Street and St. Nicholas Avenue at
9:23 p.m. on March 9, according to police.
Atkinson had a stab wound to his abdomen
and was rushed to Wyckoff Heights
Medical Center, where he later died.
The other two victims — a 26-year-old
man knifed in the back and shoulder,
and a 23-year-old man with stab wounds
to his head and back — were treated for
their injuries at Elmhurst Hospital.
Sources familiar with the investigation
said that members of the 104th
Precinct Detective Squad tracked
down Paredes at his Bushwick home
through an ongoing investigation. He
was not known to the victim.
Paredes was arraigned in Queens
Criminal Court on March 19 and
ordered held without bail; he must
return to court on April 2.
Cops fi nd marijuana on man sleeping in his car
BY RYAN KELLEY
RKELLEY@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
TWITTER @R_KELLEY6
A Queens man quickly realized
he wasn't just dreaming when
cops arrested him in Ridgewood
while sleeping in his car.
According to authorities, offi cers
from the 104th Precinct conditions
team checked on a sleeping motorist
on March 16 at 11:47 p.m. in the vicinity
of Wyckoff Avenue and Centre Street.
Aft er approaching the vehicle and
waking the suspect, law enforcement
sources said, police discovered dozens
of cannabis candies and bags of
marijuana inside.
Police could not confi rm the amount
of paraphernalia that was seized.
The suspect was arrested and has
been identifi ed as Nazmul Islam, 34,
a Queens resident. Court records
show that Islam was arraigned on
March 17 and charged with unlawful
possession of marijuana, two counts
of criminal possession of marijuana
and a traffi c infraction.
Islam was released on recognizance
and is due to appear in court
again on May 9, records show.
Photo via the 104th Precinct on Twitter
Marijuana candies and bags of marijuana seized by the 104th
Precinct in a March 16 arrest in Ridgewood.
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