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These Queens vaccination sites are accepting
walk-ins for New Yorkers ages 50 and older
BY ANG LICA ACEVEDO
AACEVEDOSCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
QNS
New Yorkers who are 50 and older
are now able to walk into select city-run
vaccine sites to receive their COVID-19
vaccine without an appointment.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the new
expansion on April 17. Previously, walk-in
appointments were exclusively set for New
Yorkers 75 and older plus an eligible escort in
an eff ort to reach more at-risk communities.
Th e following Queens vaccine sites will
be accepting walk-in appointments:
• Citi Field mass vaccination site located
at 36-2 126th St. in Corona
• Queens Center Mall, former Modell’s
location, at 58-56 92nd St. in Elmhurst
• Korean Community Services, located
at 203-05 32nd Ave. in Bayside
• Beach Channel Educational Campus,
located at 100-00 Beach Channel Dr.
in Rockaway Park
• Long Island City vaccine site at Plaxall,
located at 5-17 46th Road
• Queens Public Library Flushing
branch, located at 41-17 Main St.
• Queens Public Library Ozone Park
branch, located at 92-24 Rockaway
Blvd.
Th e city will be sharing this opportunity
through local partners and communitybased
organizations, as well as through
social media, website promotion and
robocalls.
As of Monday, April 19, the city has
File photo via Reuters
administered more than 5 million vaccines.
“Our priority for the next few months is
clear: we need to vaccinate as many New
Yorkers as possible,” de Blasio said. “By making
it easier for New Yorkers 50 and older to
get vaccinated, we are on our way to fully
vaccinating 5 million New Yorkers by June.”
Th e COVID-19 vaccine is available to
all New Yorkers who are 16 and older, and
comes at no cost. Eligible New Yorkers
may search for appointments by calling
877-829-4692 or by visiting nyc.gov/
VaccineFinder.
Whitestone ‘Wolverine’ indicted on attempted murder charges
BY JACOB KAYE
JKAYESCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
QNS
A Flushing man was indicted Wednesday,
April 14, on nine counts of attempted
murder aft er he allegedly threatened to
kill a small group of Black Lives Matter
protesters with a Wolverine-type weapon
in Whitestone last summer.
Frank Cavalluzzi, 55, also faces attempted
assault, reckless endangerment,
reckless driving and criminal possession of
a weapon charges for threatening the group
of about a dozen racial justice demonstrators
in June 2020, according to Queens
District Attorney Melinda Katz.
If convicted, Cavalluzzi faces up to 25
years in prison for each of the nine victims.
On June 2, around 3:45 p.m., about a
dozen Black Lives Matter were holding a
peaceful demonstration, calling for justice
in the killing of George Floyd, on an overpass
at the intersection of the Cross Island
Parkway service road and Clintonville
Street, according to the charges.
Cavalluzzi drove by and began to yell at
the protesters, Katz said. He then jumped
out of his SUV with a four-bladed weapon,
similar to the blades that protrude out
of the fi ctional superhero Wolverine’s
hands, and walked toward the young
demonstrators.
“You are in the wrong neighborhood,”
the charges say Cavalluzzi told the protesters.
“I will kill you.”
Th e Flushing man began to run aft er one
of the protesters, shouting at him, according
to the criminal complaint.
He then hopped back into his car, made a
U-turn, and drove onto the sidewalk where
the protesters were standing. Cavalluzzi drove
along the length of the overpass, sending the
demonstrators into the street and onto the
fencing of the bridge. He then drove off .
Cavalluzzi was arrested two days later,
on Th ursday, June 4.
“Th e defendant in this case became
enraged when he spotted Black Lives
Matter protesters demonstrating in the
neighborhood. The moments that followed
were sheer terror for the victims,”
Katz said in a statement. “As alleged, the
defendant donned a glove made of knives
– something resembling a horror movie
prop – and chased the peaceful protesters
on foot. Th en with people running for their
lives, he allegedly stepped up the attack by
getting back in his SUV and tried to run
the victims over with the nearly two-ton
vehicle.”
Cavalluzzi wasn’t the only threat the
Frank Cavalluzzi was indicted on nine counts of attempted murder in Queens Criminal Court on
Wednesday, April 14, 2021.
small group of protesters faced during their
weekslong demonstration last summer.
A man identifi ed by Twitter users as
Anthony Abicca was spotted ripping down
protest signs hung over the overpass.
In a video uploaded to social media prior
to the incident, Abicca refers to Whitestone
as a “nice little white town,” and uses
Photo via Twitter/lambomursy
various racial slurs to refer to the protesters
in the neighborhood.
In a separate video that shows Abicca
tear down the signs, one of the demonstrators
calls him a “racist.”
“Yeah, and?” Abicca replied.
Cavalluzzi was ordered to return to
court on May 5.
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