www.timesnewsweekly.com On Twitter @timesnewsweekly THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2014 50 CENTS DOWN FOR THE COUNT State Denies Maspeth Venue’s Liquor Permit evening, Thursday, May 8. Tomorrow night’s show (May 9), however, is going on as planned. Last month, the SLA denied temporary liquor licenses for the Knockdown Center to serve alcoholic beverages at the M.I.A. concerts. The owners of the premises— DMI Inc., led by David Sklar—altered the application days after the SLAraised similar concerns at an Apr. 22 hearing. Through attorney Terrence Flynn, they Lots Triangle in Brooklyn and 71st Avenue Plaza in Ridgewood. The presentation also featured slides of the current spaces under the 7 line, and depictions of the proposed plazas when complete. Rachel Thieme, executive director of Sunnyside Shines BID, a nonprofit that works to enrich the economic life of the neighborhood VOL. 105, NO. 41 Counties’ Largest Classified Section Serving Queens And Brooklyn by Robert Pozarycki Maspeth’s Knockdown Center lost its bid for a liquor license on Tuesday, May 6, when the State Liquor Authority (SLA) denied its application. Community activists and elected officials cheered the rejection of a liquor license for the arts and entertainment venue located in a former glass factory at 52-19 Flushing Ave. Opponents feared the facility—which had planned to hold events accommodating up to 5,000 patrons—would cause myriad quality-of-life problems for nearby residents. The license would have allowed the facility to serve alcoholic beverages to 600 or more patrons at a given time. It was the latest setback for the Knockdown Center, which cancelled the first of two concerts featuring rap artist M.I.A. scheduled for this -SEE KNOCKDOWN ON PG. 28- Drawing Up Sunnyside Plaza Plans Community Gets Involved At ProjectWorkshop by Noah Zuss Department of Transportation (DOT) officials held a public workshop at Sunnyside Community Services last Wednesday, Apr. 30, to present a plan and get feedback from the community on creating two new public plazas underneath the elevated 7 line in Sunnyside. -SEE PLAZAS ON PG. 26- by Robert Pozarycki and Noah Zuss The investigation continues into last Friday’s (May 2) derailment of a Manhattan-bound F train in Woodside last Friday, May 2, that left 19 passengers injured and subway service in western Queens snarled for days. Man Impaled With Rod In Street Beef Corona Resident Cuffed For Attack by Robert Pozarycki Detectives charged a Corona man hours after he allegedly impaled one man and stabbed another during a dispute outside a neighborhood doughnut shop last Thursday night, May 1, law enforcement sources said. Police identified the perpetrator as Edward Franzese, 17, of 57th Avenue, who was booked last Friday, May 2, on charges including attempted murder and gang assault. Reportedly, the violence occurred at about 8:17 p.m. last Thursday outside a Dunkin’ Donuts shop located at the intersection of 108th Street and Martense Avenue. Law enforcement sources said Franzese was part of a group of unidentified males who allegedly -SEE IMPALED ON PG. 30- Heavy Rains Flood Part Of H. Beach See Story On Pg. 13 TO USPS: MAILING LABEL GOES HERE TN/RT 050814 The new pedestrian plazas will resemble other similar spaces in the city, David Breen, associate project manager for traffic and planning said at the meeting. He gave a presentation featuring slides showing other completed plaza projects, including Corona Plaza, the New Fitness Challenge At Ridgewood Y The Ridgewood YMCA, to support the annual campaign for the branch held a fitness challenge on Saturday morning, May 3, where participants worked out for two straight hours. Participants completed multiple rounds of kettlebell and circuit training workouts, as well a spin class and abdominal workouts. RAIL BREAK LED TO F TRAIN MESS 19 Hurt InWoodside Derailment Firefighters are pictured pulling a woman from a street grate following last Friday morning’s F train derailment near the 65th Street subway station inWoodside. (photo courtesy of MTA) Officials said the train derailed on a broken track near the 65th Street station on the express line at about 10:30 a.m. last Friday. The middle six cars of the eight-car train went off the track; firefighters and MTA officials evacuated 1,000 passengers through the tunnel, with some riders being pulled through street grates. An E train on the express tracks near the derailed F train, carrying about 100 passengers, was pulled to the Queens Plaza station and safely evacuated, with no injuries reported. “I was riding on the on the train on the way to Brooklyn and I heard a slight noise and a bang, then a boom -SEE F TRAIN ON PG. 26-
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