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Bay Terrace gets welcoming brand-new sign
BY JENNA BAGCAL
jbagcal@qns.com
@jenna_bagcal
Bay Terrace is the latest Queens neighborhood
to get a personalized welcome
sign.
On July 26, lawmakers, civic leaders
and members of the community joined
together to unveil the new Welcome to
Bay Terrace sign at the corner of Bell
Boulevard and 26th Avenue.
According to Bay Terrace Community
Alliance (BTCA) President Matthew
Silverstein, he and Councilman Paul
Vallone discussed the idea of putting up
a sign for the neighborhood similar to the
ones in Whitestone and Sunnyside.
“We called Cord Meyer and they were
kind enough to do this. We’re really excited,
I think this is the fi rst offi cial designation
that says this is Bay Terrace or welcome
to Bay Terrace. So as people come
down Bell Boulevard they will be welcomed
by this beautiful sign into our
community,” Silverstein said.
Bay Terrace was established in 1949 and
is oft en considered to be part of the larger
Bayside area. Th e neighborhood was
originally comprised of farms and large
estates until Cord and Charles Meyer sold
their farm for development in the 1950s.
Residential development began in
1952 and continued into the 1960s.
Commercial development, including the
creation of the Bay Terrace shopping center,
also began in the 1950s.
“It was a perfect summer day for the
grand unveiling of the new Welcome to Bay
Terrace sign Friday morning!” said Vallone.
“I was happy to work with Cord Meyer
and the Bay Terrace Community Alliance,
which is celebrating 20 years of civic activism,
to see this great idea come to fruition.”
Th e welcome sign installation coincides
with the BTCA 20th anniversary. In 1999,
residents formed the coalition which now
represents 5,000 households in northeast
Queens.
“People know Bayside and they hear
about Bay Terrace but they might not
exactly know where Bay Terrace is,”
said Assemblyman Ed Braunstein. “So
now when they’re coming down Bell
Boulevard, they’ll see this sign and they’ll
say, ‘Oh, now I’m entering Bay Terrace.
Th is is what all the fuss is about. I have to
check it out.’”
Jamaica woman cuff ed for trying to perform
an animal sacrifi ce ritual at a Long Island park
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
edavenport@qns.com
@QNS
A Jamaica woman was arrested alongside
three other individuals for attempting
to perform an animal sacrifi ce ritual
in a Long Island park.
Heidy Ralda Guardado, 49, was
charged with animal cruelty, according
to the Suff olk County SPCA.
Guardado allegedly admitted to purchasing
two chickens in New York City
and put them in her trunk to drive two
hours to Bubble Falls, a fi shing area in
Great River, Long Island. At the time,
4:30 p.m., it was 83 degrees outside and
the chickens appeared to be lethargic
inside of the cage. No food or water was
available to the chickens.
Th e SPCA stated that the chickens
were found by the water along with ritualistic
items consistent with performing
a specifi c ritual that is black magic
against an individual, which requires a
sacrifi ce. Th e chickens were confi scated
at the time of Guardado’s arrest and were
transported to an animal sanctuary on
Long Island.
Guardado is due to return to court on
Sept. 24. New York State DEC Offi cers
also issued summonses to Guardado for
illegal activities at a New York State Park
facility. Photos courtesy of the Suff olk County SPCA
A San Diego In-N-Out burger
RightCowLeftCoast/Wikimedia Commons
Fast food sleuth
tracks down
Jamaica In-N-Out
burger owner
BY MAX PARROTT
mparrott@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
Aft er resigning himself to living the
rest of his life never knowing how
an In-N-Out burger appeared along
Sutphin Boulevard in Jamaica earlier
this week, Lincoln Boehm, the burger
sleuth of Queens, had a massive breakthrough.
In an article he penned on Vice,
Boehm details the investigation he performed
aft er a 16-year-old high school
student from Flushing sent him a direct
message claiming she had brought the
incongruous, yet impeccably wrapped
burger to Queens on a 5 a.m. fl ight
from San Diego, California.
Armed with a heavy dose of skepticism,
Boehm meticulously pieced
together the story of how Helen Vivas,
teen badminton player and AP student
at the Veritas Academy, ended up
transporting a burger over 2,500 miles
in pristine condition.
Aft er intuiting that Vivas’ was sincere,
Boehm executed a rigorous inquiry
into her travel route. He looked
up the details of her JetBlue fl ight,
demanded her burger receipts, asked
about her method of carrying the burgers
on the plane and learned the tragic
accident that led a single burger to
tumble onto Sutphin Boulevard.
He even asked for her height to verify
the consistency of the position the
burger landed in.
His sleuthing complete, Boehm invited
Vivas and her family over for a barbecue
to celebrate his victory for the
truth. “We’ll probably have hot dogs
and chicken,” Boehm wrote.
For fans of the saga who want to
commemorate the great mystery,
Boehm printed a batch of shirts, with
all proceeds going to New York City
Food Bank. To order a shirt, visit ja-maica
queens.myshopify.com/.
Photo by Jenna Bagcal/QNS
Unveiling of the Welcome to Bay Terrace sign
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