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City to add 548 seats at overcrowded Cardozo HS
BY SUZANNE MONTEVERDI
smonteverdi@qns.com / @smont76
A high school in Bayside that’s operating
well over capacity will soon see a sorely
needed enlargement.
Benjamin Cardozo High School will
undergo an expansion that will bring
approximately 548 seats to the school,
Councilman Barry Grodenchik and the
School Construction Authority (SCA)
confi rmed. Th e project is entering the
design phase, which will take approximately
a year.
Th e extension will be built on unused
land adjacent to the property on 58th
Avenue. An SCA spokesperson said the
city agency estimates that the addition
will open in fall 2022.
Th e 50,000-square-foot extension will
feature additional classrooms, the SCA
spokesperson noted, but the agency has
not yet determined what additional amenities
will be constructed.
With 3,744 students currently enrolled,
Cardozo is operating at 156 percent
capacity. Th e expansion is not meant to
serve an additional student population,
Grodenchik said, but to serve the existing
one.
“Th e community and the SCA have
been looking for new high school seats in
Queens,” Grodenchik said. “Th e expansion
is desperately needed and will go
a long way to relieve the overcrowding.”
Th e councilman said his offi ce will work
with the SCA to minimize the eff ects of
construction on the surrounding community.
Photo by Suzanne Monteverdi/The Courier
The Gap store in Bay Terrace
Photo courtesy of NYPD
Cops want to
question man
in violent Qns.
sexual assault
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
rpozarycki@qns.com / @robbpoz
Police have released images of a
person of interest linked to the violent
sexual assault in Kew Gardens
Hills on Monday morning that left
a 52-year-old woman unconscious
and in critical condition.
At 8:33 a.m. on April 30, police
said, officers from the 107th Precinct
and EMS units responded to a 911
call about a possible sexual assault
in the vicinity of Kissena Boulevard
and 72nd Road.
Upon arriving at the location,
authorities said, police found the
victim lying at the bottom of an
exterior stairwell unconscious, with
trauma to her face and body.
Paramedics rushed the woman to
a local hospital in serious condition;
according to published reports,
she remains hospitalized in critical
but stable condition, but has been
unable to speak with detectives.
According to sources familiar
with the investigation, it is believed
that the victim was pulled down to
the stairwell and sexually assaulted
there. WABC-TV reported that
the woman had been walking home
after dropping off a child at a nearby
school.
On May 1, the NYPD released
security camera footage of the person
of interest walking in the area
where the attack occurred. He is pictured
wearing a dark-colored jacket,
a gray hooded sweatshirt, a black
and red baseball cap and red pants.
The NYPD Queens Special Victims
Squad is investigating the case.
Anyone with information regarding
the person of interest’s whereabouts
is urged to call Crime Stoppers at
800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-
57-PISTA). All calls and messages
are kept confidential.
Photo via Google Maps
Cardozo High School in Bayside
Gap retail store at Bayside shopping center to close
BY SUZANNE MONTEVERDI
smonteverdi@qns.com / @smont76
Th e Gap, which has occupied a storefront
within a Bayside shopping center for
many years, will close this summer and be
replaced with another retail shop.
Located within the Bay Terrace Shopping
Center on Bell Boulevard, the Gap storefront
will close this July, according to an
employee at the location. Th e large storefront
on the lower level of the complex —
owned by Cord Meyer Development —
features a Gap and GapKids.
However, aft er closing to undergo renovations
in the summer months, the location
will re-open as an Old Navy, according
to a Cord Meyer Development spokesperson.
Th e Gap Inc. announced earlier this
year that it would close approximately
200 underperforming Gap and Banana
Republic stores worldwide, even while
making plans to expand Old Navy’s brickand
mortar retail presence. Company
president and CEO Jeff Kirwan was reportedly
booted from his role in February
aft er the company saw disappointing sales
growth.
Th e Gap store has begun off ering customers
stock priced at 30 to 50 percent off
ticket value. A variety of men’s, women’s
and children’s clothing and accessories line
the shelves.
Th e open-air mall has seen a number
of changes in recent years. Shoewear
chain Aerosoles vacated its retail space
on Dec. 31. In September 2017, beauty
chain Sephora moved into a storefront
which formerly housed teen retail store
Aeropostale.
On Dec. 31, 2015, Barnes and Noble
book store moved out of the shopping center.
Th e space was taken over by homeware
chain Homegoods in October 2016.
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