FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com JULY 24, 2014 • THE COURIER SUN 23 SNAPS QUEENS The view of the Manhattan Hedge from LIC Photo by Gildo What is your favorite food to barbecue? Steak because I like breaking out the grill. Bonnie L. Hamburgers and hot dogs. Ike G Ribs because they taste good. Joe L. Chicken because you can marinate it in a million ways. Donna M. Ribs are where it’s at! They’re not your average food like hamburgers and hot dogs and they are just delicious. Matthew F. Seafood because it is easy and it cooks faster. Joann H. oped street talk Spare ribs because I like the taste of it. Diana G Skirt steak because when you put it on the grill, you can hear it sizzle and it just tastes delicious. Jorge L. The Courier is awarding dinner for two (a $50 value) each week to the reader who submits the best summer shot. Please send your snaps (high resolution, if possible) to editorial@queenscourier.com. BY JANAE HUNTER and SARA TOUZARD Why a Business Improvement District will help our business BY MONICA CALDERÓN As a small business owner on Roosevelt Avenue, I understand what it is to a run momand pop shop in this neighborhood. My parents immigrated to Queens and set up the business I currently run. For over a decade, our business has served as our family pride and our lifeline, and we have called Roosevelt Avenue our home. We love Roosevelt Avenue, but we also know that it can be better. If you look just a few blocks away at the area within the current 82nd Street Partnership, you can see the difference. The street is clean and safe, with significantly less trash and graffi ti. The Partnership helped get grants to pay for new storefronts, awnings, lights and signs. Businesses benefi t from free marketing and promotion through the crowds that come to the street for events like Viva La Comida, as well as online and social media promotion. Businesses along 82nd Street have a voice and an advocate that represents their interests and needs with city government, and can connect them with free services and workshops to help them strengthen their business and succeed. We want that extra boost too. The good news is that we can have it. In the coming days and weeks, business owners, residents, and property owners located on Roosevelt Avenue from 81st Street to 104th Street, as well as Junction Boulevard from 40th Road to 35th Avenue, will have a chance to vote to extend the 82nd Street Partnership boundaries to form the Jackson-Heights – Corona Business Improvement District. To us it’s a no brainer, we will be voting yes. As small business owners in Queens face more and more challenges – online retailers, chain stores, high rents, navigating city rules and regulations – it is important that we come together as a community to create a stronger, safer, and cleaner Roosevelt Avenue where people want to live, do business, and shop, at all hours, day or night. We urge our neighbors to vote yes to the Jackson-Heights – Corona Business Improvement District. For more information on the proposed Jackson Heights – Corona Business Improvement District, please visit www. JHCoronaBID.org Monica Calderón is an owner of L&C Accounting Service Inc.
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