TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2014 • 24 Cuff R’wood Man For Assault Members of the 104th Precinct -CONTINUED FROM PG. 1- Cops Find Drug Stash In Crash Squad Co. 288, Engine Co. 291, Ladder companies 136 and 140, Rescue 4, Battalion 46 and EMS units. Paramedics brought Soto, Colon and Taveras to Elmhurst Hospital Center. The Mercedes-Benz’s driver was not injured. All three suspects were charged with multiple counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal possession of marijuana. Soto was additionally charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the impairment of drugs and various traffic violations. According to the Queens District Attorney’s office, the suspects are being held pending arraignment. -CONTINUED FROM PG. 1- CEC 24 Braces For Glendale Shelter Gretel deli meat company could be used for a new school, City Council Member Elizabeth Crowley suggested at the meeting. Crowley mentioned using eminent domain powers to possibly take over the sites if the owners were unwilling to sell. “It’s an injustice to the kids that will be coming into the school,” Crowley said. “These kids need seats in this district. I believe with the right pressure we can get the School Construction Authority to look again at this site.” “I think it’s irresponsible to put any homeless shelter in District 24,” Comaianni added. “Every school is overcrowded. Where are you going to put all these kids?” “One of our most severe needs is for seats in Elmhurst and Corona,” according to CEC 24’s letter to Fariña. “The existence of these homeless shelters would prove to be a ‘double edged sword’ for District 24. Two valuable school sites would be lost and the most overcrowded school district in New York City would have to accept the potential challenge of absorbing hundreds of new students into schools that cannot accommodate them.” Mary Leas, director of external affairs at the School Construction Authority (SCA), stated the site has been considered, as well as the Pan American Hotel. “We did consider the Pan Am Hotel for a school,” she said, but the proposal was met with community opposition, “so we backed away from that.” Leas noted that she, Comaianni and Crowley recently looked again at the Glendale sites, but that the SCA is only interested if the land of all three can be included. responded to the scene; the victim suffered minor injuries. Following an investigation, Det. Steven Lundy of the 104th Precinct Detective Squad charged Burchici early on Sunday morning, Aug. 10, with first-degree burglary, seconddegree assault, menacing, criminal obstruction of breathing and harassment. Court records noted that Judge Ernest Hart ordered Burchici held on $25,000 bail during an arraignment hearing in Queens Criminal Court on Sunday. The suspect is scheduled to return to court on Aug. 25. -CONTINUED FROM PG. 1- CB 9 Meets Aug. 21 On Plaza Woes complained about the plaza are also scheduled to attend. All parties who signed petitions for and against the plaza project will be notified of the meeting. “When Community Board 9 voted in favor of the pedestrian plaza, we did so with the understanding that we would monitor the plaza’s local impacts and keep an eye on whether it remained an asset to the community,” Gonzalez said. “With this meeting, we hope to give all sides of this discussion a seat at the table, and we are aiming to arrive at the best resolution possible.” The meeting will be open to the public. All Board 9 members have been invited to attend as well. For more information, call Board 9’s Kew Gardens office at 1-718- 286-2686. -CONTINUED FROM PG. 4- CB 5 Committee Defends Removal Of Trash Baskets Manager Gary Giordano said. “What you’re getting is a lot of shopping bags filled with household garbage,” Maier said. “If they see like one of those circulars or newspaper dispensers, they’ll just start building it up around there, to the point that right in front of the Capital One bank on Fresh Pond Road near 67th Avenue about three weeks ago ... there was just a giant mound. And then they throw their coffee cups on top of that.” “It’s outrageous,” Board 5 member Kathy Masi said. Kerzner said he believes there are only a few problematic corners. “We have one or two other corners that are now part of that number of fifty that are perfectly clean,” he said. “The other two locations we have are Woodbine (Street), on the southwest corner by the post office ... and the other location, Gates (Avenue) on the southeast corner. Those are the locations that also, every once in a while, they slip and we have household refuse there,” Kerzner said. Previously, “every single one was abused,” he said. “Those five baskets are still being abused.” Reacting to a Times Newsweekly editorial on July 24 that called the experiment a failure, Kerzner said he disagrees. Kerzner told fellow members he would call the Sanitation Department the day after the meeting to find out why officials did not want to remove the remaining baskets. Glendale street cleaning The committee debated establishing street cleaning regulations along Myrtle Avenue in Glendale from 71st Street to Woodhaven Boulevard, and on Cooper Avenue to Woodwaven Boulevard. At issue was whether to recommend implementing Alternate Side Parking rules, or hiring private cleaning services along both commercial and residential streets in the Board 5 confines. “It’s clear that Myrtle Avenue in Glendale needs something,” Masi said. “What is that something. Right now it gets nothing, so anything would be better.” After discussing how many days a week, and what type of regulations should be established, Giordano suggested holding a public hearing to hear from the community on the issue. “I think we have to have a public hearing on this,” he said. “We should wait until after Labor Day.” “So the question is, it’s clear that Myrtle Avenue in Glendale needs something, what is that something?,” Kerzner said. “What’s going to give us enough relief without people going crazy,” he added. Several different times and days that would be least inconvenient to both residents and businesses were debated . “I would definitely say Monday though Friday is good. The way that New Yorkers litter, it’s intense, it’s crazy,” Maier said. Kerzner suggested that the committee hold a public hearing on the matter in the near future. -CONTINUED FROM PG. 3- At a meeting held by Community Education Council District 24 to discuss the possible influx of students housed at the proposed Glendale family homeless shelter, nearly 350 residents packed the auditorium at P.S./I.S. 128 in Middle Village last Wednesday, Aug. 6. City Council Member Elizabeth Crowley and State Sen. Joseph Addabbo, as shown, answered audience questions. (photo: Noah Zuss) “I know this is a very important issue for the community, “ she said. Of the 39 schools in the district, 31 are already over capacity, and at 110 to 150 percent saturation, according to City Council Member Elizabeth Crowley. “I will certainly echo what the president and vice president said in regards to overcrowding,” Leas said.M any residents lined up to ask how seats in the district would be found for kids living at the shelter, and in what ways the influx would effect schools in the district. District 24 member Arlenis Morel said that “homeless kids do not have priority” over others living in the district, but many residents remained concerned some seats would be taken away. “The rules dictate ... kids have a right to go to their district school,” she said. Maspeth resident Charlie Vavruska stated his opposition to the shelter and said he wants to see a “moratorium on all homeless shelters.” “As a resident of District 24 I have been told many times by the Department of Education there is nothing we can do,” he said. “But we fought. Do we want this homeless shelter? No!” Letters To The Editor preconditions for extracting money from us. We’ve written officials at all levels about this problem, with no success. Were New York City to terminate whoever’s responsible for pervasive negligence in Queens, may I hope his or her successor will have more respect for necessary sanitation. Richard Kostelanetz Bushwick Fighting To Keep ‘Net Neutrality’ Dear Editor: When we turn on our computer, tablet or phones, we expect that the business that provides our internet service will not block or slow down the internet as long as we pay our bills. This principle—that all data on and users of the internet be treated equally by Internet Service Providers (ISPs)—is known as net neutrality. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently proposed a regulation that would allow ISPs to slow down the websites of content providers like Netflix or HBO if they do not pay an additional fee to ISPs. In effect, this rule would create a “fast-track” for certain websites that would cost more to access. This new regulation would be disastrous for both content providers and for internet users. Most small businesses or individuals trying to start a website would not be able to afford to get on the fast track, and would see their web traffic slow down to a crawl. Moreover, the costs of this fee would almost certainly be passed down to consumers—meaning that you would pay more to visit many of the websites you use today. This is unacceptable. The FCC rule will end the open internet that we enjoy today. An open internet creates jobs, encourages innovation, and makes life easier for millions of Americans. I fully support net neutrality and will continue to fight to preserve it. You can also make your views on net neutrality known by sending a comment to the FCC by Wednesday, Sept. 10. Comments can be emailed to openinternet@fcc.gov or submitted online. I will continue to monitor this effort to ensure a free internet, but should the rulemaking process fail to serve the public interested, we in Congress will consider legislation to fix the problem. Rep. Grace Meng N.Y. Sixth Congressional District Letters from readers are invited and should be sent by regular mail to Times Newsweekly, P.O. Box 860299, Ridgewood, N.Y. 11386- 0299 or by e-mail to info@times newsweekly.com. All letters must be accompanied by the writer’s full name and address, which will be withheld upon request. Anonymous letters will not be considered for publication. All letters are subject to editing. The opinions expressed in each letter are not necessarily those of the Times Newsweekly or its staff. -CONTINUED FROM PG. 4- Learn The History Of Our Neighborhood! VISIT OUR ARCHIVES ONLINE AT www.timesnewsweekly.com
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