4 TIMES • MAY 7, 2015 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.timesnewsweekly.com Middle Village Block renamed for fallen sanitation worker Photo courtesy Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley’s office. Councilwoman Crowley and the family of Steven Frosch unveil the new street sign at the corner of 78th Street and 67th Drive. BY ANTHONY GIUDICE [email protected] @A_GiudiceReport A Department of Sanitation worker from Middle Village killed in a tragic accident last year will be remembered forever on the block where he grew up. City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley helped family members, friends and former colleagues of the late Steven Frosch unveil on May 3 a street sign renaming the block of 67th Drive and 78th Street as “Steven Frosch Way.” Frosch, 43, died in June after being fatally struck by a street sweeper while performing maintenance work at the DSNY’s Maspeth garage. He spent 15 years with the agency after serving for four years as an NYPD officer and briefly as a member of the FDNY. “Steven dedicated his life to helping others, even before he became a uniformed serviceman. Those who were close to him tell stories of his selfless ways, always encouraging those around him to be their best,” Crowley said. “People like Steven Frosch are few and far between, and will always live on in the hearts of those they touched. I’m proud of this street renaming and thank my colleagues and everyone who helped make this possible.” Frosch is survived by his wife, Bina, their four children Stevie, Charlize, Frederica and Jesse, and his brother Robert. “We always had a group and endless laughs,” said Frosch’s close friend, Frank Ciccione, to the group of over 100 who were at the unveiling. “The city just recognized what we already knew—that this is Steve’s block.” Last September, Greg Heihs, a friend of Frosch, came to Crowley’s offi ce to request the co-naming. After a push from her offi ce, the community and Frosch’s DSNY family, the name change request was submitted in November and approved by a City Council vote in January. Addabbo talks homeless shelter at M V meeting TIMES NEWSWEEKLY/Phgoto by Anthony Giudice State Senator Joseph Addabbo BY ANTHONY GIUDICE [email protected] @A_GiudiceReport After reports surfaced of the emergency homeless shelter located at the former Pan American Hotel being infested with rats, members of the Juniper Park Civic Association (JPCA) continue to voice their concerns over the planned opening of a homeless shelter in Glendale. During the April 30 JPCA meeting in Middle Village, president Robert Holden asked state Senator Joseph Addabbo to write a letter to NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, asking him not to sign any contracts with Samaritan Village. The nonprofi t group operates the Pan American emergency shelter and has a pending contract to operate a shelter at 78-16 Cooper Ave. in Glendale. “Can you write us a letter and say, with all the problems with Samaritan Village, we need them to back off and don’t expand into other facilities?” Holden asked Addabbo, adding that there would be “rats and other things” at the proposed Cooper Avenue shelter — just like in the Pan Am shelter. “Certainly they don’t deserve to run any facility.” Addabbo responded that he will have a personal conversation with Stringer about the proposed Glendale shelter. “This is what my community needs, I don’t think you should sign it,” Addabbo said he would tell Stringer. “I think it’s a wrong road going down with Samaritan Village.” Addabbo also mentioned a town hall meeting last May in which the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) said no families would be put into the Pan Am Hotel location due to the fact that there were no kitchens in the rooms where they wanted families to live. “And about four weeks later, what do you know, families are in there,” Addabbo said. “It just confi rmed for me that you cannot trust Samaritan Village, you cannot trust Department of Homeless Services.” Holden assured those in attendance that their fi ghting, largely conducted in partnership with the Glendale Middle Village Coalition, has not gone unheard. The opening of the shelter has been delayed due to their continuing fi ght. “We’ve been winning rounds, by the way,” Holden said. “The reason this thing hasn’t gone forward is because the coalition has been battling; every time they put something in with the Department of Buildings, we challenge it.” TIMES NEWSWEEKLY (USPS 465-940) is published weekly by Schneps NY Media LLC, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361. Periodicals postage paid at Flushing, NY. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Times Newsweekly/Ridgewood Times, P.O. Box 863299, Ridgewood, N.Y. 11386-0299.
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