SILVERCUP W. PROPOSAL OK Board 2 Approves New LIC Development The long-awaited Silvercup Studios expansion was recommended unanimously by Board 2 and now moves to the City Planning Commission. The project was scheduled to be completed by 2010, but has been pushed back because of New York Power Authority facilities on three acres of land at the site, which must be decommissioned and relocated before construction can begin, according to published reports. Board 2, the City Council, Borough President and Department of City Planning by Noah Zuss During its meeting at Sunnyside Community Services on Thursday, Oct. 2, Community Board 2 recommended the approval of special permits to finalize the Silvercup West development in Long Island City and called for the number of affordable housing units there to be doubled. -SEE BOARD 2 ON PG. 28- TIMES, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 • 6 R’wood Students Receive Awards For Character Kept Sex Slaves In Maspeth Home Florida Authorities Cuff Two Alleged Pimps St. Matthias School in Ridgewood started off the school year The suspects were identified in published reports as Viktor Berki, 28, and Andras Janos Vass, 24, two Hungarian nationals who were taken into custody at a 61st Street location. According to the Miami Herald, Berki, Vass and a third individual—Gabor Acs, arrested in Florida—held three young gay men inside locations in Maspeth and Miami and forced them into selling their bodies, sometimes working in 20-hour shifts. Reportedly, the victims— males in their 20s—made contacts with the ringleaders by Robert Pozarycki Law enforcement officials from Florida traveled to Maspeth last Friday, Oct. 3, and picked up two residents allegedly connected to a prostitution ring involving gay men, it was reported. -SEE SLAVES ON PG. 24- with their first Character Award presentation in the school auditorium on Thursday, Oct. 2. Pictured are the Character Award winners for September. The award is given to students for being respectful. Students, pictured in the back row from left to right, are: Cody Serrano, Chloe Guay, David Fernandez, Kayla Loeffel, Rodolfo Lezama, Gabriela Sleszynska and Samira Rodriguez; middle, left to right: Kaylee Soto, Lily Tugaw, Aleksandra Pawlowska, Ingrid Oleas-Pesantez, Kacper Szymanowski and Bruce Garzon Picon; and, in the front: David Palaguchi, Jayden Almonte, Sophia Quinones, Layla Skibinski, Camila Aguilar-Pesantez and Alitza Carchi. ©Times Newsweekly - 2014 - ADDABBO Join me this Columbus Day in honoring Christopher Columbus, and celebrating all the contributions of Italian-Americans. JOSEPH P. ADDABBO, Jr. New York State Senator District 15 District Offices: 159-53 102nd Street Howard Beach, NY 11414 (718) 738-1111 (718) 322-5760 FAX 66-85 73rd Place Middle Village, NY 11317 (718) 497-1630 (718) 497-1761 FAX
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