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32 TIMES • NOVEMBER 26, 2015 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com Old Timer A dragnet, a toy run and smart students topped the Times back in December 1991 If you have any memories and photos that you’d like to share about “Our Neighborhood: e Way it Was,” write to e Old Timer, c/o Ridgewood Times, 62-70 Fresh Pond Rd., Ridgewood, NY 11385, or send an email to editorial@ridgewoodtimes.com. All mailed pictures will be carefully returned upon request. We once again turn back the pages of the Ridgewood Times and Times Newsweekly all the way back to Dec. 19, 1991. Though that was just a mere 24 years ago, the world is remarkably different today — but as you’ll read in this article, some of the issues affecting residents then are back in the headlines now. Here’s a look at what was happening: • Below the top story about a wild police pursuit involving suspected robbers from Forest Hills is a photo of two 104th Precinct offi cers who helped catch a graffi ti vandal in Glendale. Police Offi cers Keith Casey and John Barone busted a young man caught spray-painting graffi ti onto a wall at the corner of 65th Street and Otto Road. Upon being spotted, the vandal ran up to the Long Island Rail Road tracks. The vandal, a Glendale resident, was caught by the offi cers after attempting to run down the tracks moments later. • Community Board 5 meanwhile voted against then-Mayor David Dinkins’ fi veyear plan to open homeless shelters in residential neighborhoods. The plan included a proposed shelter at the corner of 65th Lane and Admiral Avenue in Middle Village. Members of the CB 5 Land Use Committee expressed concern that the shelter would house individuals suffering from addiction or mental illness. According to a committee report, “Many experts and an overwhelming majority of the public agree that shelters are not the place to treat mentally ill and substance-abusing homeless. There is surplus space in many existing state institutions that could be converted to provide a more humane and appropriate setting for treating and assisting this population.” • Certainly, this issue is one familiar to recent Times readers, as the city and local civic groups currently clash over a proposed homeless shelter in Glendale and a shelter currently in operation at the former Pan American Hotel in Elmhurst. • The Times’ front page also featured a story and photo of the Independent Bikers’ latest Toys for Tots run, in which motorcyclists from across the city brought bundles of toys to children through a motorcade that began in Richmond Hill and ended at the Bernard Fineson Developmental Center on Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach. • Page 2 featured a story from the most recent Community School Board 24 meeting in which members expressed concern about school overcrowding. Citing Board of Education projections, School District 24 was expected to have 10,101 additional elementary school enrollments and 4,474 extra middle school enrollments by the year 2000. But, as one board member noted, the fi ve-year capital plan for the district would leave a signifi cant shortfall of school seats. • Page 18 of the Times featured a story and photo of October’s Students of the Month from P.S. 229 in Woodside, which also educates students from nearby Maspeth. School Principal Peter McNally and Assistant Principal Helen Paladino and the teachers nominated the students, who received a specially designed ribbon. We wonder if any readers might recognize themselves in this photo and share with us someday their stories of attending P.S. 229. • There were plenty of advertisements to appeal to last-minute Christmas shoppers still looking for that perfect gift. Pants Pantry at 57-22 Myrtle Ave. in Ridgewood had a Page 11 ad featuring hyper color sweatshirts for $29.95 and Perry Ellis 100 percent wool jackets for $150 each. On the same page, New York Trains and Hobbies at 63-18 Flushing Ave. in Maspeth had a special Lionel Freight Flyer train set for $67.99 and a Lionel Union Pacifi c Limited set for $249.99. • Looking for a house? In the Times classifi ed section, Krisch Realty offered a one-family home off Central Avenue in Glendale for $147,500, while Home Hunters Real Estate listed a detached brick two-family home in Maspeth, complete with a two-car garage, for $265,000. Renters could also fi nd in the classifi eds a three-room apartment on Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood for $500 a month; a four-room apartment on Myrtle Avenue in Glendale for $600 a month; and a fi ve-room apartment near Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church in Ridgewood for $725 a month.


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