State Senate Candidate Stumps For Votes At FOCA Meeting In R’wood -CONTINUED FROM PG. 10- Now you have income flowing and businesses thriving. This is key, because without the ability to put money back into the area, you start seeing the quality of life drop.” Traffic and safety issues Residents also voiced concerns over traffic hazards surrounding nearby Mafera Park. The major issue at hand was the influx of traffic to the blocks surrounding the park during football games and sporting events. According to residents, illegally or double parked vehicles posed a significant safety hazard during the games. One resident who wished to remain anonymous recalled an incident in which a child was injured on the football field at the park. “EMS and FDNY had to walk a block and a half to get to the park,” she explained. “Cars were double parked, and nobody moved to let the ambulance through. They had to run up the block with a gurney in hand.” In addition to illegally parked cars, residents said that the number of large school buses “barreling down 68th Avenue” also creates potentially hazardous conditions. Leilani Blira-Koessler of State Senate candidate Michael Conigliaro (center) is pictured with Farmers Oval CivicAssociation President DieterVey (at left) and Secretary Alice Kokasch. (photo: KellyMarieMancuso) Assemblyman Mike Miller’s office urged residents to contact Det. Thomas Bell at the 104th Precinct CommunityAffairs Unit to report these unsafe conditions. Despite these issues, certain traffic concerns in the area were remedied. FOCA member Anthony Salvatore stated he was able to work with City Council Member Elizabeth Crowley and Miller in getting a four-way stop approved for the intersection 68th Avenue and 65th Street. Salvatore also hopes to reduce local accidents due to speeding by requesting speed bumps and posted speed limit signs similar to those that exist around schools. * * * The next Farmers Oval Civic Association meeting is scheduled to take place on Thursday night, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m. at Ridgewood Baptist Church, located at 64-13 Catalpa Ave. and now resides in Rego Park with his wife and two young daughters. “At the end of the day,” Conigliaro added. “It’s our children that are the future. We want to make sure their lives are good and our community is strong.” A major issue at the heart of Conigliaro’s campaign is the quality of life within the district. Conigliaro is an outspoken opponent of the mayor's plan to build a homeless shelter in Glendale. One alternative Conigliaro suggested was the notion of tax breaks for homeowners willing to house low-income families or individuals. “There are buildings that have gone up in Brooklyn,” Conigliaro explained, “where building owners were given the opportunity to have tax abatements if they have a certain amount of units for individuals considered in the low-income range.” Conigliaro also spoke in favor of building a school on the shelter site to help ease overcrowding in the district, or “a commercial or industrial plant there that would create jobs for the area.” Another big quality of life concern is the rumored drug treatment center housed within the proposed Samaritan Village facility. “The key that a lot of people don't know about is that they want to put a methadone clinic inside that homeless shelter,” Conigliaro said. “If they do that, you're going to have an element coming into the area who want to find these people and try and get them hooked back onto drugs.” He added that the proposed plan would, essentially, “bring drug dealers into the area.” Conigliaro hopes to raise the quality of life in the district by reinvigorating the local economy. He hopes to attract more businesses to the area by offering tax cuts and incentives. The candidate vowed to make a proposal in Albany that would cut the state sales tax on businesses in half, from 8.6 to 4.3 percent, and eliminate the corporate tax all together. “If business comes into the area,” he continued, “then they create jobs. If more jobs are now in the area, it creates vibrancy. Richmond Hill Robbers On Lam -CONTINUED FROM PG. 11- Auto Body Shop Owner Towed To Jail For Fraud Selling A Home Or Car? Renting An Apartment? Having A Yard Sale? Let The Times Newsweekly Classified Section Work For You! Call Us At 1-718-821-7500 53 • TIMES, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2014 Gonzalez, 19, of Ozone Park was apprehended on Thursday, Sept. 25, and charged with first-degree robbery, police stated. Anyone with information in regards to this robbery is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577. Police are seeking the public’s help in locating this suspect pictured in connection with a robbery within the 106th Precinct. The suspect is described by authorities as a black male between 17-19 years old, with a slim build. $70,537.15 owed to the state and $81,070.17 owed to city municipalities. The investigation was conducted by the Criminal Investigation Division of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, with assistance from Sgt. Elizabeth A. Curcio and Detectives Jeffrey A. Boyce, Joseph Brancaccio, John J. Keeley, David Matos and John R. Warner of the District Attorney’s Detective Bureau, under the supervision of Deputy Bureau Chief Robert J. Burke and Chief Investigator Franco Russo; and by the Queens District Attorney’s Chief Forensic Accountant James Dever, Staff Accountants John M. Murphy and Joseph Plonski and financial Analysts Andrew W. Risi and Stephen H. Panattieri. Assistant District Attorney Andrew H. Kaufman, chief of the District Attorney’s Crimes Against Revenue Unit, is prosecuting the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Anthony M. Communiello, chief of the District Attorney’s Special Proceedings Bureau, and Oscar W. Ruiz, deputy bureau chief, and the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Investigations Peter A. Crusco and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorney for Investigations Linda M. Cantoni. It was noted that a criminal complaint is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty. -CONTINUED FROM PG. 17-
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