SERVING UP HOUSING 3 around Bushwick Avenue and Montieth Street. “We hope to break ground in the first quarter of 2015,” he said. Phase 2, along Flushing Avenue and Montieth Street will also break ground in the first quarter of 2015, Klein said. Phases three and four Water Board Approves Reduced Rate Increase Some Owners Will Get A Pass In This Week’s Times Newsweekly... LOCAL NEWS HIGHLIGHTS GLENDALE/BUSHWICK: Phone Scammer Gets Busted..........Pg. 1 RIDGEWOOD: Borough President Approves Rezoning...........Pg. 1 MIDDLE VILLAGE: Residents Bash Proposed Glendale Homeless Shelter At Board 5 Public Hearing.........................................Pg. 1 BUSHWICK: Board 4 Update On Rheingold Development........Pg. 3 GLENDALE: Pizza Party For ‘Math Bowl’Champs........Photo, Pg. 3 RIDGEWOOD/GLENDALE: Board 5 Transit Committees Approve Improvements For Dangerous Intersection............................Pg. 6 GLENDALE: St. Pancras Students Reel In Fun..............Photo, Pg. 6 OZONE PARK: Group Bashes And Slashes Victim....................Pg. 8 MIDDLE VILLAGE: CK Flexes Science Muscles............Photo, Pg. 8 FOREST HILLS: 112th Precinct Zeroes In On Streets.............Pg. 10 MASPETH: State DOT To Clean Underpass Bird Messes........Pg. 10 ELMHURST: Lawmakers Feted At Fund-Raiser............Photo, Pg. 10 CORONA: 110th Precinct Talks Crime Prevention..................Pg. 11 BUSHWICK: Cops Honored By 83rd Precinct..........................Pg. 11 RICHMOND HILL: New Senior Housing Opens Doors............Pg. 12 FOREST HILLS: Man Fatally Struck By Truck.........................Pg. 12 QUEENSBRIDGE: Creative Kids Attend Fair.................Photo, Pg. 12 SUNNYSIDE: Getting A Taste Of Local Eats...............Photos, Pg. 13 FOREST HILLS: P.S. 101 Celebrates Centennial.........Photos, Pg. 13 MIDDLE VILLAGE: 104th Pct. Boss Eyes Knockdown Ctr.....Pg. 14 BUSHWICK: Identifiying Lost Soldiers At Cemetery...............Pg. 21 EAST ELMHURST: Composer’s Memorial Concert.....Photo, Pg. 21 JACKSON HEIGHTS: Queens Pride Parade On June 1..........Pg. 24 WOODHAVEN: GWDC Dinner/Dance Gala June 6...................Pg. 24 BUSHWICK/GLENDALE: Students Enjoy Career Days At Two Area Public Schools..........................................................Photos, Pg. 25 GLENDALE: Organist Honored At Concert..................Photo, Pg. 27 LONG ISLAND CITY: Library Comes To State Park.................Pg. 29 QUEENS & BROOKLYN BOROUGH-WIDE NEWS Memorial Day Parades & Ceremonies................Photos Pg. 1, 31-33 Water Board Approves Reduced Rate Increase.......................Pg. 3 CURES Tells Freight Rail Operates To Seal Up Cars................Pg. 6 Pols Call For State Bill Mandating Queens Library Reform.....Pg. 8 Fast Food Joint Bandit Gets 110 Years Behind Bars...............Pg. 13 Queens Had Most Perps Arrested In Child Porn Bust............Pg. 19 COLUMNS & LISTINGS Pat Buchanan...................Pg. 4 News From TheWRBA....Pg. 4 104th Precinct Blotter....Pg. 11 Transit & Traffic News....Pg. 20 It’s In Queens!................Pg. 22 Community Calendar....Pg. 22 Crossword & Sudoku....Pg. 22 TV Listings.....................Pg. 23 Social Security News.....Pg. 27 Sports..............................Pg. 62 SUBSCRIBE TO THE TIMES NEWSWEEKLY! SEE PAGE 29 around Mill and Melrose streets, and Evergreen Avenue will only begin when phases one and two are finished. When complete the project will build “almost one thousand units of residential housing,” Kevin Worthington, a representative of City Council Member Antonio Reynoso, said.T he project was approved under Reynoso’s predecessor, Diana Reyna for whom Worthington previously worked. Worthington began the public by Noah Zuss The project to build 1,000 apartments on the former Rheingold Brewery site is inching closer to becoming a reality, a project manager told Community Board 4 at its monthly meeting last Wednesday, May 21, at Hope Gardens Senior Center in Bushwick. The Reed Property Group will develop the property, with work expected to be completed in four phases, the first beginning in the first quarter of 2015, according to Project Manager Aaron Klein. “Right now we’re only in the schematic design phase,” he told Board 4 lastWednesday. Phase 1 work will be focused -SEE BOARD 4 ON PG. 28- Rheingold Plan Set To Start • TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2014 by Robert Pozarycki Water bills for city property owners will go up once again in July, as the New York City Water Board approved a 3.35 percent hike last Friday, May 23. The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) hailed the increase as the lowest in nine years and less than half of the originally projected 7.8 percent increase. When the new rates take effect on July 1—the start of New York City’s 2015 fiscal year—the average homeowner will pay about $3 more per month for water services. Owners of apartment houses with metered billing can expect a monthly increase of just under $2. 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