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Glendale native presents artshow
highlighting his childhood memories
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@QNS.COM / @QNS
Take a walk down memory lane
next month at a very special art
exhibit that’s coming to Glendale.
Glendale native Tom Huber will present
“Paintings by Tom Huber,” an exhibit
inspired by his childhood memories of
the neighborhood at the Glendale Library.
Although Huber has since moved
to Levittown, he still embraces his
old neighborhood. Each of the eight
paintings in the exhibit highlights a
time and place special to all residents
of the community.
The exhibit includes painting of
local Glendale favorites, including
the Durows Restaurant, where Huber
played piano on Thursday nights
during his childhood, Gebhardts
Restaurant, Bob’s Diner and the
Glendale Bakery. There will also be
paintings of Forest Park through the
diff erent seasons.
The exhibit will be on display at
the Glendale Library, located at 78-60
73rd Place, from Dec. 1 through Jan. 31.
Before the exhibit opens to the public,
the Glendale Library will be hosting
an Opening Night Meet and Greet the
Painter on Nov. 30 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Photo courtesy of Craig Schwab
Maspeth author of book on homelessness to host book signing
BY ANTHONY GIUDICE
AGIUDICE@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@A_GIUDICEREPORT
You can come out and meet the
author of the book that aims to
break down the causes of the
city’s growing homelessness crisis at a
book signing in Woodside next month.
Crystal Wolfe, author of “Our
Invisible Neighbors” and a Maspeth
resident, will be speaking on the
myths surrounding homelessness,
some of the main causes that lead to
homelessness, and the solutions to the
city’s crisis which sees nearly 60,000
people sleeping in the street every
night, during her very fi rst book signing
event at the St. Sebastian Parish
Center on Dec. 15, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
To gather information for her book,
Wolfe spoke to more than 100 organizations
and nearly 200 sources for
“Our Invisible Neighbors,” including
Community Board 5 (CB 5) and their
Homeless Subcommittee.
She spoke with elected offi cials and
heard their plans on how to curb the
rising homeless numbers, and help
prevent people from becoming
homeless in the fi rst place, including
Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi and
his Home Stability Support (HSS)
program.
Wolfe did not just pen a book
on homelessness; she has gotten
involved in other ways, such as
founding the nonprofi t organization
Catering for the Homeless, which
works with catering companies, acting
as an intermediary between the
caterers and food pantries, nonprofits,
church organizations and others
to bring left over food to the homeless.
She also worked tirelessly to help
an elderly homeless woman fi nd a job
and an apartment of her own so she
can get off the streets, among many
other initiatives to help the city’s
homeless live day to day.
Wolfe will be selling and signing
books at the event as well. Books are
$20 each and 10 percent of the proceeds
will be donated to St. Sebastian
Parish Center, which is located at 39-
60 57th St.
Photo courtesy of Crystal Wolfe
Crystal Wolfe is holding a book signing of "Our Invisible Neighbors" on
Dec. 15.
