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More trash services for downtown Flushing
BY SUZANNE MONTEVERDI
smonteverdi@qns.com / @smont76
Flushing‘s bustling downtown area will
receive additional sanitation services in
an eff ort to maintain cleaner streets.
Starting on Nov. 22, the city doubled
street cleaning eff orts in downtown
Flushing. Trash will now be picked up
twice a day, increased from once a day.
Th e need for increased sanitation services
was one of many topics covered at a
recent town hall with Mayor Bill de Blasio
at Flushing International High School on
Barclay Avenue.
John Choe, executive director of the
Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce,
welcomed news of the expanded service
and said the organization will “continue
to put pressure on the city to prioritize
Flushing” for resources.
Th e city is also working with the Greater
Flushing Chamber of Commerce to identify
locations for up to 50 new heavy-duty
garbage cans. Local business owners and
residents are invited to provide suggestions
for bin placement via email by contacting
johnatfl ushingchamber.nyc.
Th e garbage cans will be purchased
by the city and maintained by the NYC
Department of Sanitation, according to
the Chamber. Offi cials hope the cans
reduce litter in the neighborhood’s most
congested areas.
“Th is expansion of sanitation services
for downtown Flushing will have a signifi
cant impact on the neighborhood and
greatly improve safety and cleanliness
for local businesses and residents,” Choe
said.
Cardozo HS in Bayside receives
emailed bomb threat: cops
BY SUZANNE MONTEVERDI
police at 7:13 a.m. that morning aft er
evacuation sites as the investigation proceeded,
smonteverdi@qns.com / @smont76
receiving an email from an unknown
according to the school’s website.
sender threatening to bomb the school
Classes resumed as normal at 9:15 a.m.
Classes resumed as usual at a Bayside
located at 57th Avenue and 223rd Street.
aft er the investigation on campus was
school that received an online bomb
Law enforcement sources said the
completed and the threat was deemed not
threat on Nov. 27, according to authorities.
threat was reported before school started
credible, sources said. Th e school fi led an
following the Th anksgiving weekend.
aggravated harassment complaint against
According to police, the principal at
Students and staff who arrived aft er the
an unknown perpetrator.
Benjamin Cardozo High School contacted
threat was received were taken to nearby
Police are still looking into the matter.
Photo via Google Maps
A woman jumped from a third-fl oor window
at this Flushing building to her death on
Nov. 25.
Woman takes
a deadly fall in
Flushing sex sting
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
rpozarycki@qns.com / @robbpoz
Police are continuing to investigate
the death of a 38-year-old woman who
jumped from a third-fl oor window of a
Flushing building during a police raid
on Saturday night.
Members of the Queens North Vice
Enforcement Division conducted the
operation at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 25 at an
apartment located above businesses on
40th Road near Main Street as part of
an ongoing investigation.
According to published reports, the
woman allegedly off ered to perform a
sex act on a man in exchange for cash;
the man subsequently identifi ed himself
as a cop and called for backup.
Reportedly, the woman panicked
and jumped out of a third-fl oor window.
Police said that offi cers stationed
outside the building witnessed her fall
to the sidewalk, and immediately called
for EMS units.
Paramedics found the woman
with severe injuries to her head and
body and rushed her to NewYork-
Presbyterian/Queens hospital, where
she died the next day. Her identity
was not disclosed, and the Medical
Examiner’s offi ce is conducting an
autopsy.
Th e NYPD Force Investigation
Division is looking into the incident.
Photo via Google Maps
Benjamin Cardozo High School in Bayside
Photo via Wikimedia Commons/Daniel Schwen
Downtown Flushing