26 12 times THE COURIER • JUNE 11,SUN 2015 • JUNE 11, 2015 FOR BREAKING FOR BREAKING NEWS NEWS VISIT VISIT www.timesnewsweekly.www.couriersun.com com editorial sun WWW.COURIERSUN.COM VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS BOB BRENNAN ROBERT POZARYCKI AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ NIRMAL SINGH GRAZIELLA ZERILLI STEPHEN REINA RON TORINA, JENNIFER DECIO, CHERYL GALLAGHER LIAM LA GUERRE, CRISTABELLE TUMOLA, ANGY ALTAMIRANO KATRINA MEDOFF, ANTHONY GIUDICE, ANGELA MATUA, ALINA SURIEL CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI CRISTABELLE TUMOLA DEMETRA PLAGAKIS WARREN SUSSMAN CELESTE ALAMIN MARIA VALENCIA VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. 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What is your favorite NYC summer hotspot? “South Street Seaport. There’s nice people and good food.” Greg Amentas BY ALINA SURIEL “I’ll tell you where I don’t like to go: the High Line Park because it’s so crowded.” Riley Bae “Every month I go to Central Park, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and then take the long walk back down to the LIRR.” Thomas Carroll “Central Park, because I like the fresh air and to be around a lot of people.” Jose Guardado “Katz’s Deli. Their pastrami is the best and they have awesome pickles.” Maryam McCann “Carmine’s in Times Square, because we love the family-style food.” Shahla Savino street talk “The High Line Park. It’s beautifully designed, and above the noise.” Connie Demidio “The Boil, a bar in the Lower East Side that gives you gloves and a big bag of spicy, Cajunstyle crawfi sh.” Lucy Malone SNAPS QUEENS Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City // Photo courtesy of @AstoriaHaiku Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! Submit them to us via our Instagram @queenscourier, Facebook page, tweeting @queenscourier or by emailing editorial@queenscourier.com (subject: Queens Snaps). Make it an endless ‘Summer All Out’ With shootings and homicides on the rise, the Police Department is looking to go “all out” this summer in some of the most crime-prone areas of the city. Reportedly, the NYPD will assign 330 new offi cers to evening and overnight tours where shooting incidents and murders have risen this year, including the 113th Precinct, which covers South Jamaica, St. Albans, Springfi eld Gardens and other southeast Queens neighborhoods. The precinct has had seven homicides thus far in 2015. The Summer All Out operation was implemented last year and helped reduce violent crime 26 percent in the targeted areas, according to Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. Certainly, it helped the city achieve yet another record low in homicides last year, with just 326 cases reported for all of 2014 — and it is hoped this year’s operation will achieve another all-time low at year’s end. Summer All Out is very similar to the NYPD’s Operation IMPACT implemented during the Bloomberg administration, in which the NYPD greatly increased its presence in areas hardest hit by crime. The operation proved successful in making the streets safer, and that an increased police presence will keep the bad guys away. As the NYPD launches Summer All Out, the mayor and City Council are deliberating how many new offi cers to hire in the upcoming fi scal year which begins in July. Commissioner Bratton says the NYPD needs 500 new cops to help enhance counterterrorism duties; many in the City Council want double that number to boost the NYPD’s overall duties. Why not give Bratton 500 new cops for the NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau and 1,000 new cops for our crime-prone neighborhoods? Why should an increased police presence in the 113th Precinct be only seasonal? Let’s give the Police Department and the people it nobly serves the increased police needed to keep every street in every neighborhood safe. Keep the Flushing Meadows fair alive Thousands again gathered at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on June 7 for a festival commemorating the glory of the 1939-40 and 1964-65 World’s Fairs. Some have suggested that it might be time for another World’s Fair for New York City. That prospect, however, is unlikely, considering that both of the previous fairs — beloved though they are — didn’t make a profi t. But the public’s turnout at the World’s Fair Anniversary Festivals of 2014 and 2015 suggests that perhaps a smaller, cost-effective fair in Flushing Meadows would work. The park shouldn’t be transformed into Disney World for two years or even for two months. But maybe it’s time to consider expanding the World’s Fair festivals from one weekend to two weekends, or make it a weeklong affair. Asking for a small admission fee or a suggested donation could help fund renovations to the New York State Pavilion and other areas of Flushing Meadows Park. Queens residents seem to like having a fair in Flushing Meadows. Let’s keep this new tradition alive. 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