2 times • JULY 7, 2016 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com MTA meeting tonight on major L&M train projects Photo via Wikimedia Commons The MTA is holding a community meeting to discuss the future L train and M train reconstruction work on Thursday, July 7. Glendale park project leads CB 5 meeting Middle Village man nabbed for molesting girl BY ROBERT POZARYCKI After she replied that she went rpozarycki@ridgewoodtimes.com to middle school and was 11 years @robbpoz of age, prosecutors said, Para allegedly commented on her shirt, then Detectives picked up a Middle Village man on June 30 for allegedly sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl on an Elmhurst street a week earlier. Police said Jose Para of 83rd Place allegedly attacked the girl at 7:45 a.m. on June 23 in front of a catering hall on Albion Avenue near Queens Boulevard. He was arrested as a result of an investigation conducted by Detective Danielle Febus of the NYPD Queens Child Abuse Squad. According to Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, Para walked up to the girl and began speaking to her; neither the suspect nor the victim knew each other. Para allegedly asked her where she went to school and told her that he was 20 years old. grabbed her right breast. The girl ran off and alerted school officials, who then reported the incident to the 110th Precinct. Para, whom police sources noted has 21 prior arrests, was charged with first-degree sexual abuse and acting in a manner injurious to a child. He is currently awaiting arraignment in Queens Criminal Court. “Young children walking to school in broad daylight should not have to worry about a stranger walking up to them and then touching them in an inappropriate way,” Brown said in a statement on July 1. He encouraged anyone who believes they may have been abused by Para to call the NYPD Queens Special Victims Squad at 718- 520-9277. Photo via Google Maps/Inset courtesy of NYPD Learn more about renovations to a park in Glendale during the next Community Board 5 (CB 5) meeting scheduled to take place on Wednesday, July 13, in Middle Village. As announced by District Manager Gary Giordano, the session will take place at 7:30 p.m. at Christ the King Regional High School’s CNL Center, located at 68-02 Metropolitan Ave. (enter through Door 10, take stairs/elevator to the third floor). Representatives of the Parks Department will be on hand to give a presentation on the second phase of its renovation project at Evergreen Park in Glendale. Following the presentation, the board will proceed with its regular agenda, which includes the public forum, reports from District Manager Giordano and CB 5 Chairperson Vincent Arcuri, reviews of demolition notices and liquor license applications, and committee reports. For more information or to register to speak in advance, call the CB 5 office in Glendale at 718- 366-1834. BY ANTHONY GIUDICE agiudice@ridgewoodtimes.com @A_GiudiceReport Ahead of the pending construction work to be done to both train lines that run through Ridgewood — the M and the L — the MTA is holding a community meeting to discuss the future of the work to the Canarsie Tunnel and Myrtle viaduct. The MTA is calling residents to attend the meeting on Thursday, July 7, at First Bushwick Middle School, which is co-located at Intermediate School 383, located at 1300 Greene Ave. in Brooklyn. Doors open at 5: 30 p.m. and the program will run from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. This meeting is the community’s chance to hear from MTA and NYC Transit leadership and technical staff about the necessary line work for both trains and what impact it will have on service. The M train work will come in two phases. Phase 1 will see the entire segment of the M line between Metropolitan Avenue and Myrtle Avenue-Broadway close as crews take down and replace a bridge over the freight rail tracks between the Fresh Pond Road and Metropolitan Avenue stations. This phase is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2017. Phase 2 involves demolishing and replacing the concrete viaduct connecting the Myrtle Avenue Line with the Broadway Line, and is expected to last 10 months. The total work on the M line is expected to be completed by the summer of 2018 in order to accommodate for an increase in M train service as work then begins on the L train’s Canarsie tube. The L line is in need of repairs in the tunnel underneath the East River after Hurricane Sandy dumped 7 million gallons of saltwater into the tunnel in October 2012, damaging the concrete lining in the tube, which holds important pieces of infrastructure for the line. The timeline for repairs to the Canarsie tube is still up in the air as there are several options for construction that would take anywhere between 18 months and 5+ years, depending on which approach is taken.
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