FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com APRIL 10, 2014 • The Courier SUN 3 QUEENS SNAPS Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! Submit them to us via our Facebook page at www. facebook.com/QueensCourier, by tweeting @queenscourier or by emailing them to ctumola@queenscourier. com. If You’re Ready to Buy a Home,We are Ready to Help. The State of New York M ortgage Agency offers: Up to $15,000 Down Payment Assistance 1-800-382-HOME(4663) for Housing www.sonyma.org UNITED ADULT MINISTRY TO HONOR ADVOCATES OF OLDER ADULTS BY KATRINA MEDOFF United Adult Ministries will present the Rose Kryzak Senior Leadership Award to three honorees at the Flushing House Gala at Flushing Town Hall on May 8. Honorees state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing), Steven Goodman, Ed.D., and Alan Weinberg, LCSW, “have all soldiered on in the tradition of Rose Kryzak, making major contributions of service and caring for older adults,” said Robert F. Salant, Flushing House director of community relations. The UAM Older Adult Ministry Award will be presented to Doris Walker, an elder of the Hollis Presbyterian Church, and Doris Ramsay, a deacon of the Valley Stream Presbyterian Church. Tenor Daniel Rodriguez will perform at the event and will be honored with a special award for his support of various nonprofits, especially those that serve older adults. All proceeds from the fundraising gala will support an endowment fund that allows Flushing House to remain affordable for many of the older adults who live there. For more info, call 347-532- 3025, email [email protected] or visit www.flushinghouse.com. WORLD’S FAIR SUBMISSIONS CALL Did you or someone you know attend the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair at Flushing Meadows- Corona Park? If yes, The Queens Courier is asking you to share your memorabilia and/or memories with us to commemorate the event’s 50th anniversary this April. You could win a dinner for two. Please email your entries to editorial@ queenscourier.com with the subject line “World’s Fair Anniversary” or mail your entries to Editorial, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361. Note: All photos/items become property of The Queens Courier. New Commanding Officer appointed for Police Service Area 9 BY KATRINA MEDOFF Captain Mark Simmons will replace Deputy Inspector Miguel Iglesias as commanding officer of Police Service Area 9. After 18 months of serving as commanding officer of PSA 9, Iglesias has been given a new assignment as the commanding officer of PSA 2. Simmons was appointed to the New York City Police Department in 1997 and has worked in the 101st, 28th, 34th, 24th, 33rd and 20th Precincts as well as Central Records and Patrol Borough Manhattan North. He also served as Deputy Commissioner of Equal Employment Opportunity. PSA 9 is located in Flushing, with the Ravenswood Satellite located in Long Island City. Photo courtesy of NYPD Car Share service motors to Forest Hills BY LIAM LA GUERE [email protected]/@liamlaguerre A Brooklyn-based car share company is rolling into Queens. Carpingo, a subset of All Car Rent-a-Car, opened its second location in Queens in Forest Hills on April 4, part of a plan to accelerate their business into the second most populous borough. The company, which opened in Brooklyn in 2012, has more than 40 locations in its home borough, but officials said they’ve had their eyes on Queens for a while and are thinking of expanding here because of the wide potential for more users. “Shared mobility is a big, big deal,” said Gladstone McFarlane, director of business development for Carpingo. “It’s something that is catching on. I know people who have owned cars, but are moving on, because they see a financial benefit or an environmental benefit.” Registered Carpingo members can reserve cars through the web or from their mobile devices at any time during the day. Then they can pick up the cars from local parking garages and use membership cards to access the vehicles. Carpingo’s Long Island City location opened last year, but since then the company has had trouble expanding in Queens while fighting rivals such as Zipcar. Now it’s moving forward cautiously with its new location. The Forest Hills site has just two cars in the Central Parking garage on Queens Boulevard, but McFarlane said based on its performance they’ll add more cars and different makes and models. “We’re a small company and we are trying to be the little engine that could,” McFarlane said. “Once we gauge activity then we will proceed.” Photo courtesy of Carpingo Car share company Carpingo opened its second Queens location in its ongoing plan to expand into the borough.
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