VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE QUEENS LIBRARY By Angy Altamirano aaltamirano@queenscourier.com @aaltamirano28 It’s time to show your neighborhood library some love. As of Nov. 7, nominations from the public are being accepted for the second annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards. The awards, held by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Charles H. Revson Foundation, honor library branches in the city’s three library systems including the Queens Library. After receiving nominations from community members, five libraries will be chosen as winners and announced during the award ceremony in May 2015. Each branch will be awarded $20,000. “Every day, New Yorkers enter their neighborhood libraries to seek the riches of the information age, available 4 The Courier sun • november 13, 2014 for breaking news visit www.couriersun.com to everyone and all for free,” said Julie Sandorf, president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation. “These awards celebrate the love New Yorkers have for their libraries.” Nominations, which are being accepted through Dec. 12, can be submitted at www.nyclibraryawards. org, through each library’s website or in person at any neighborhood library. The winning branches will be selected by a panel of judges, including THE COURIER/Photos by Salvatore Licata THREE INJURED IN FIERY HOWARD BEACH CAR CRASH BY SALVATORE LICATA THE COURIER/Photos by Salvatore slicata@queenscourier.com Licata @sal_licata1 Three lucky passengers managed to escape death after a fiery crash in Old Howard Beach caused a car to flip over and another to catch fire last week. The accident happened at 159th Avenue and 99th Street about noon on Nov. 5, authorities said. At the scene, one car was flipped on its side and hit the fence of the corner house on the block, while the other hit a utility pole and burst into flames. The fire was put out quickly by first responders. Three people were taken to Jamaica Hospital and one person refused to go to the hospital, according to the FDNY. One of the survivors was still recovering in hospital, a spokesperson said. authors Jonathan Safran Foer and Jacqueline Woodson, and children’s book publisher Julie Strauss-Gabel. “Neighborhood libraries in New York City are the center of many of our communities,” said Andreas Dracopoulos, co-president of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. “They welcome all New Yorkers and provide vital opportunities to learn, educate, reflect – and better ourselves.” The inaugural NYC Neighborhood Library Awards brought in more than 4,300 nominations and one of last year’s winners included Corona Library, located on 38-17 104th St., which received $10,000. $63K raised in fight against proposed homeless shelter BY SALVATORE LICATA slicata@queenscourier.com/@Sal_Licata1 The Glendale/Middle Village Coalition is making strides in their effort to combat the city on the proposed Cooper Avenue homeless shelter. The coalition announced that they have now raised just $300 shy of $63,000 for a legal fund. This money will go toward a lawsuit against the city as the coalition believes the agencies did not go through the proper steps to check how adding a homeless shelter to the neighborhood would affect it. “People are giving what they can, which is great,” said Brain Dooley, a member of the coalition. “I think in another three or four months we can get to our goal.” Out of the nearly $63,000 raised, about $15,000 has been allocated toward the coalition’s first legal step, filing an Article 78, which is an appeal to the Environmental Assessment the city did of the land. The coalition instead wants the city to do a full Environmental Impact study. As the coalition moves on, they are looking to raise at least another $65,000, which they believe will get them through the full legal process against the city. Dooley reiterated multiple times that the group was not against helping homeless people in the city. “We are not against giving homeless people housing,” Dooley said. “We are against the warehousing of 125 families in homeless shelters.”
SC11132014
To see the actual publication please follow the link above