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OLD WAY FOR AN UPGRADE Upset Over Utility Poles On Glendale Block new, unsightly poles in front of attached homes when the company already runs its telephone lines along utility poles located in the rear of homes along a shared community driveway. Moreover, he claimed, Verizon provided little advanced notice of the information, catching residents on the block by surprise last week when they spotted the poles being installed. “No one’s saying we don’t want FiOS, but you have phone lines that go along the back of our houses,” Buckley said. “It’s been that way for 70 years. They decided to stick Bust F.H. Teacher In Sex Sting second-degree attempted criminal sexual act, first-degree attempted dissemination of indecent material to minors, attempted endangering the welfare of a child and resisting arrest. Morris ordered him to return to court on Apr. 15. If convicted, Khan faces up to four years behind bars, according to Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown. Reportedly, the Department of Education suspended Khan without pay pending further investigation. “Despite numerous publicized arrests for exactly this type of by Robert Pozarycki For years, the only street fixtures lining a four-block stretch of 77th Avenue in Glendale were the customary city steel streetlamps—but, much to the chagrin of residents, the landscape changed last week. Law enforcement sources identified the suspect as Monsur Khan, 30, of 108th Street, who teaches earth science at the Hillside Arts & LettersAcademy in Jamaica. According to police, Khan made contact online with someone whom he believed to be a 14-year-old girl, who turned out to be an undercover NYPD detective assigned to the Major Case Squad’s Vice Enforcement Team. Reportedly, police booked Khan last Wednesday at a location within the 109th Precinct’s confines where he arranged to meet up with the purported teenager. Khan was released last Thursday, Mar. 27, on $15,000 bail after being arraigned before Queens Criminal Court Judge Gia Morris on charges of second-degree attempted rape, TIMES, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2014 • 6 by Robert Pozarycki An apparent attempt to hook up with a teenage girl put a high school teacher from Forest Hills in handcuffs amid an undercover police sex sting last Wednesday, Mar. 26, authorities reported. -SEE TEACHER ON PG. 34- Reportedly, Verizon installed and wired five wooden utility poles along 77th Avenue between 80th and 84th streets. The telecommunications giant told the Times Newsweekly this was done to allow for the expansion of its FiOS fiber optic television, telephone and Internet network. The “revolutionary upgrade in infrastructure ... will bring superfast sic Internet services and competitive TV services to this area,” according to a Verizon spokesperson, who added “it is a city mandate that we install this network throughout all five boroughs.” But the pole installation came with little notice to local residents, according to 77th Avenue resident Mike Buckley. In a phone interview with the Times Newsweekly, he questioned why Verizon had to install -SEE POLES ON PG. 28- His Alleged Underage Date Was Undercover Cop Newest Dem Club Meets In Rich. Hill Local elected officials were guests of honor at the inaugural meeting of the 38th Assembly District Part B Regular Democratic Club last Thursday, Mar. 27, at the One Stop Richmond Hill Community Center. Members heard from Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, Deputy Borough President Leroy Comrie, City Council Member Rory Lancman and Assemblyman Mike Miller. 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