30 THE QUEENS COURIER • KING OF QUEENS • NOVEMBER 22, 2018 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM
Geoffrey Mazel
Founding Partner
Hankin & Mazel, PLLC
2018 HONOREES
Anthony Antoniou
Project Manager
VRH Construction Corp.
Vincenzo Armano
President
Societa Di Polizzi Generosa
Robert Bishop
Partner
Pitta Law
James Bonner
President
New York & Atlantic Railway
John Bues
Forchelli Deegan Terrana
Fred Catanese
Airway LLC
Yang Chen
Executive Director
Asian American Bar Association of
New York
Wayne Clarke
Creative Director & Co-Founder
The Giannola family
My Time Inc.
George Eliopoulos
Principal
Velios Capital
Elijah Felix
People’s United Bank
Robert M. Ferrito
State President
Grand Lodge of New York ~ Order Sons
of Italy in America
Dr. Vladimir Gasca
Director of Psychiatry, NYC Health +
Hospitals/Elmhurst
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn
School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Loycent Gordon
Owner
Neir’s Tavern & Grills
Mark Gregorio
Managing Partner President
TEI Group
Kyle Griffith
Managing Partner
The NYBB Group
John J. Helly
General Manager
Flushing Cemetery
Bill Hutchingson
AVP – Financial Advisor
Flushing Bank
Peter Kaplan
Assurance Partner
New York Metro Private Company
Services (PCS)
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Dr. Back Kim
Cardiovascular Specialist
Heart Vein NYC
Chris LaVecchia
Private Chef
Midnite’s Peak Productions
Anthony LoCastro
JetBlue
General Manager Ground Operations-JFK
Dr. Timothy G. Lynch
Interim President
Queensborough Community College
Rev. Dr. Les Mullings
CEO/Founder
Challenge Charter Schools
William L. Murphy, J.D.
Professor, Division of Criminal Justice,
Legal Studies, and Homeland Security
St. John’s University, College of
Professional Studies
John O’Kane
NYS Associate
O’Kane Realty
Andrew-Paul Ragusa
Associate Broker
Keller Williams Realty
Martin Ridgers
Owner
MKR Specialty Insurance Brokerage
Anthony Ringston
President
RIIS Financial
Joe Schramm
President & CEO
Schramm Marketing Group | Fantástico
John Sotirakis
Coritsidis Sotirakis & Saketos, PLLC
Albert Teekasingh
Owner
Tropical Revival
Vito Turso
Deputy Commissioner for Public
Affairs
New York City Department of Sanitation
Anthony Vero, PE
Deputy General Manager
My Time, Inc.
Honoree Vincenzo Armano and guests
Anthony LoCastro (right)
Honoree William Murphy
and guest
City Councilmember Eric Ulrich
takes the mic
Honoree Vito Turso and
guests Trattoria 35
Honoree John J. Helly with his guests
Trattoria 35
Anthony Antoniou and guests
LaGuardia Airport
Edwin Wong
President
Forest Hills Asian Association
PHOTOBOOTH SPONSOR: Airway
LLC
COCKTAIL SPONSOR: Globe Air
Cargo
SPONSORS: Flushing Bank, SB One
Bank, Investors Bank, People’s United
Bank, Trattoria 35, Schramm Marketing
Group, John J. Ciafone, Esq., Challenge
Charter School, PwC, Pitta Law LLP, TEI
Group, New York & Atlantic Railway,
Asian American Bar Association of New
York, Forchelli, Deegan and Terrana,
Societa di Polizzi Generosa, Flushing
Cemetery, Queensborough Community
College, and Broadway Stages.
Photos by Corazon Aguirre and Matthew Kropp