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Tens Of Thousands Mourn Fallen Officer In Glendale
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill
de Blasio and Police
Commissioner William Bratton
eulogized the slain officer—a
seven-year NYPD veteran
assigned to the 84th Precinct—as
someone committed to his faith,
his family, public service and the
job he loved.
Ramos and his partner, P.O.
Wenjian Liu, were shot to death
one week earlier, Dec. 20, while
working on a special patrol at the
corner of Myrtle and Tompkins
avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Their killer—29-year-old
Ismaaiyl Brinsley of Baltimore—
reportedly took his own life after
the shooting. In a social media
post, Brinsley said he was
coming to New York to kill
police officers to avenge the
high-profile, police-involved
deaths of Michael Brown and
Eric Garner.
Thousands of police officers
began arriving in Glendale last
Friday, Dec. 26, for Ramos’
wake, also held at Christ
Tabernacle. The line of mourners
stretched several blocks from the
church’s front door on Myrtle
Avenue down Cypress Hills
Street and connecting roads.
Sections of Myrtle Avenue,
Central Avenue, Otto Road and
Cypress Hills Street were closed
to traffic and/or had parking
restrictions to accommodate
official vehicles and mourners.
Because the church only seats
700, speakers and large
television screens were set up
along Cypress Hills Street so the
crowd could view the services.
Glendale residents, for their
part, exhibited various symbols
of sympathy and support for the
NYPD.
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by Robert Pozarycki
From every corner of the city and country, thousands of
police officers and other public servants came to Glendale last
Saturday, Dec. 27, to pay their respects to P.O. Rafael Ramos,
who was gunned down with his partner a week earlier while on
patrol in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
More than 25,000 crammed
the area around Christ Tabernacle
Church on Myrtle Avenue near
Cypress Hills Street for the
memorial service at the house of
worship where the 40-year-old
Ramos—a Cypress Hills
resident—was an active and
faithful member.
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Members of New York’s Finest salute P.O. Rafael Ramos one last time as his casket is carried from Glendale’s Christ Tabernacle Church to a waiting hearse last Saturday,
Dec. 27. (photo: Marcin Zurawicz)
Full Coverage Continues On Page 12
The Ridgewood Times celebrated its centennial in grand style with the
publication of its 100th anniversary issue in October of 2008. The massive
152-page issue, which was wrapped around that week’s paper, sold
at newsstands for a special $1 price and featured a treasure trove of
historic photos from around the Ridgewood area. You can view a digital
version of the special issue by logging on to digital-editions.qns.com/
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SPECIAL STORM EDITION
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SLAMMED BY SANDY
Historic Storm Decimates NYC, Northeast U.S.
Above, a fallen tree crushed a car on 74th Street in Middle Village. At right, the storm
surge on Monday flooded not only Manhattan, but also Long Island City’s Gantry
Plaaza State Park. (top photo: Robert Holden; right photo courtesy City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer)
the storm’s damage in New York
City. Not only were homes severely
damaged by the storm surge, but as
many as 100 homes in the neighborhood
at the eastern tip of the Rockaway
Peninsula were burned to the
ground by a six-alarm blaze that
broke out on Monday night. Firefighters
rushed to the scene but could
do little to stop the inferno due to
high winds and low water pressure.
No fatalities or injuries were reported.
Among those who lost homes in
the Breezy Point blaze were Rep.
Bob Turner of the Ninth Congressional
District and Michael Long,
chairperson of the state Conservative
Party.
The storm surge in Manhattan
also flooded out many of the subway
tunnels below the East River connecting
the island with Brooklyn and
Queens. As MTAChairman and CEO
Joe Lhota said in a statement on
Tuesday morning: “The New York
City subway system is 108 years old,
but it has never faced a disaster as
devastating as what we experienced
Monday night.”
Buses were back on their routes
on Tuesday afternoon, starting out
with limited service. Full bus service
was restored by the Wednesday
morning rush hour but many were
packed with riders who used them as
an alternate route to the still-disabled
subway system.
Limited subway service was restored
on Thursday, Nov. 1, but it
may take several more days for the
entire subway system to be active
once again, as workers continue to repair
tunnels and mechanisms dam-
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Days before her arrival, New
Yorkers and government agencies
alike braced themselves for the predicted
onslaught. Schools and public
venues were closed, the entire public
transportation system was shut down
and evacuations were ordered in the
low-lying areas of the city.
Even with those preparations,
based largely on what was thought to
be the worst case scenario, the city
sustained an incredible amount of
damage, as the storm proved stronger
than anticipated.
Thousands of residents in the
Times Newsweekly coverage area
were mostly affected by power outages
resulting from utility lines
which were downed by the wind or
fallen trees. Homes, streets and sidewalks
were also damaged from trees
young and old which were either
tipped over or split in half from the
force of the storm.
In these neighborhoods, the recovery
has already begun, as firefighters,
volunteers and local
residents worked together to remove
fallen limbs. Con Edison crews are
also in the process of restoring power.
As of press time, while thousands
in the area have had their power restored,
many remain in the dark; it
may take several more days before all
other customers in the area are
brought back online.
Even so, those damages were
minor in comparison to the carnage
experienced by low-lying communities.
Each of these areas were
drenched by a record storm surge that
came ashore Monday night, flooding
out homes and businesses.
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by Sam Goldman and Robert Pozarycki
Unlike any weather event to visit New York City in its history,
the hybrid storm known as Hurricane Sandy wreaked
havoc locally during her extended stay between late Sunday,
Oct. 28, and Tuesday, Oct. 30, paralyzing the city with unprecedented
destruction from her heavy winds and record-setting
storm surges that will take weeks to fully remedy.
A resident surveys the damage inflicted upon waterfront homes in the Rockaway community of
Roxbury, which sits on Jamaica Bay. The storm surge severely damaged many homes and caused
some to be ripped off their foundations. (photo: Horatio Baltz)
The superstorm known as Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the northeast
United States in October 2012 and devastated coastal areas of New
York City. In the weeks that followed, the Ridgewood Times documented
the damage wrought Sandy’s winds and heavy surf, as well as the
herculean eff orts by local residents to assist storm-stricken residents.
Since the storm blasted the area, the paper also informed readers about
rebuilding programs, some of which are still going even as the sixth
anniversary of the superstorm approaches later this year.
The shocking murder of Police Offi cers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in
Brooklyn just days before Christmas in 2014 outraged New Yorkers and
much of the country. Ramos was a member of Christ Tabernacle Church in
Glendale, and the house of worship hosted his wake and funeral on Dec.
26-27. More than 25,000 people, the vast majority of whom were police
offi cers, crowded the streets around the church to view the services on widescreen
televisions. Attendees included Vice President Joe Biden, Governor
Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
No one alive to witness the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 can
forget where they were or what they were doing when they fi rst heard
about them. Community news went to the backburner that week as the
Ridgewood Times changed the focus of its front page on the attacks on and
collapse of the World Trade Center. In the weeks that followed, the newspaper
would run “The Lost List,” a listing of the names of victims who were
missing or presumed dead in the rubble at “Ground Zero.” The Ridgewood
Times would also cover the various funerals for Fire Department and Police
Department personnel killed in the attacks, and the ceremonial renaming of
streets and other public places in honor of the 9/11 victims.
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