8 The Courier sun • november 12, 2015 for breaking news visit www.qns.com Photo via Twitter/@NYPDSpecialops The NYPD Special Operations Division tweeted photos of the wreckage, including parts of a tail, found after a small plane crashed off Breezy Point. Small plane crashes in water off Breezy Point, one body found: reports BY ANGY ALTAMIRANO aaltamirano@queenscourier.com @aaltamirano28 Authorities have recovered the debris of a small plane — along with the body of the possible pilot — which crashed off the coast of Breezy Point on the evening of Nov. 4, according to published reports. The single-engine aircraft hit the water before 8 p.m. and authorities reportedly began to discover parts of the wreckage more than a mile off of Beach 219th Street, reports said. Aviation and scuba search teams spent the night searching the water and also continued through the morning of Nov. 5. The body of one man, who authorities reportedly believe was the only person on board the plane, was pulled out of the water. Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate what caused the accident. However, authorities reportedly said there was no mayday call from the cockpit and the FAA had no reports of missing aircraft. According to reports, the plane was registered to a private owner from New Hampshire, James McGee, and had taken off from Philadelphia earlier that night. The NYPD Special Operations Division tweeted images of wreckage pulled out of the water, including parts of the plane’s tail. Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts speaks at Far Rockaway community clergy event BY KIRSTEN E. PAULSON Harlem. Butts, who has been a pastor editorial@queenscourier.com for the last 45 years, is the chairman @QueensCourier of a nonprofit that is responsible for over $600 million of commercial State Senator James Sanders and housing development Jr. held his monthly Community in Harlem. He also helped establish Clergy Breakfast on Oct. 30 at the Thurgood Marshall Academy for First Presbyterian Church in Far Learning and Social Change. Rockaway. Butts says that the foundation of These breakfasts are training the work he does in the ministry sessions aimed at educating clergy was set by the Rev. Dr. Martin and faith-based leaders across his Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” district and giving them the tools speech, which he heard as a young and information they need to help man. King’s dream was a blueprint themselves and their congregations. for him, a way to promote social Guest speakers are invited to each welfare and justice. breakfast to discuss a different topic. “The dream represents a prophetic This month’s speaker was Rev. vision,” he said. “You cannot Dr. Calvin Butts, the pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in expect to be engaged in a prophetic ministry without struggle.” Butts recalled the story of a woman who lived on a fixed income and was in danger of losing her rent-controlled apartment to private development. Butts worked with the City Council member for the area, who introduced legislation that would require private developers to partner with a communitybased organization before taking over property. “Guess what we are?” Butts asked. “That’s what a church is—a community-based organization, and then that community-based organization was eligible to purchase that property for $1, and that’s essentially how we ended up developing over 2,500 units of affordable housing.” Photo courtesy of the state Department of Transportation Traffic on Queens Boulevard traveling over the Van Wyck Expressway in Briarwood will be shifted onto a recently completed overpass. Queens Boulevard traffic pattern changes as Briarwood project continues BY ROBERT POZARYCKI rpozarycki@queenscourier.com/@robbpoz One side done, one more to go. The state Department of Transportation (DOT) announced a new traffic pattern on a Queens Boulevard overpass in Briarwood as it continues work to improve both the bridge and the Van Wyck Expressway below. Four lanes of traffic, two in either direction, will be moved from the existing south side of the boulevard to the north side, onto a new, recently completed overpass. This pattern will remain in place for the next year as DOT crews demolish and replace the southern side of the span. It’s part of the DOT’s $154 million reconstruction of the Van Wyck Expressway between the Main Street exit and the Kew Gardens Interchange, which is also being rebuilt. The lane shift is expected to be completed by Thursday night. The southern entrance to the Briarwood E subway station adjacent to the southern side of Queens Boulevard will also be closed for a one-year period as work progresses. Riders will need to enter the station on the newly completed subway station on the north side of Queens Boulevard at Main Street. A new sidewalk leading to the station will be completed next week, according to the DOT.
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