FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com DECEMBER 31, 2015 • TIMES 17 s year in review WILEY COYOTE CAUGHT April was the month of the coyote in Queens as one was found on top of a bar in Long Island City and another was seen running around near Juniper Valley Park and captured in Middle Village. The Midville coyote led police on a pursuit through Juniper Valley Park before being caught behind a home on Caldwell Avenue the next night. JUNIOR’S FLEES MASPETH FOR JERSEY Junior’s, the famous Brooklyn cheesecake institution, moved its baking operation from 58-42 Maurice Ave. in Maspeth to Burlington, New Jersey, the company announced in April. Alan Rosen, one of the company’s owners, told Crain’s New York Business that the company couldn’t afford the rent to remain in the area. Junior’s new baking facility provided them with more space — 103,000 square feet compared to 20,000 square feet in Queens — and features more refrigeration, freezers and loading docks, according to Rosen. Junior’s had been reportedly renting the Maspeth facility for the last 15 years to supply its four restaurants in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Connecticut, as well as its wholesale and mail-order businesses. APRIL EVERGREEN PARK RENOVATIONS BEGIN Work began in April on the long-awaited reconstruction of Glendale‘s Evergreen Park, the Parks Department announced. The first phase of renovations to the 1.1-acre green space on 60th Place between 75th and St. Felix avenues includes removing “underused” bocce and shuffleboard courts in order to reconstruct an expanded playground that will feature, among other amenities, new spray showers. City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Mayor Bill de Blasio each provided funding for the project.
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