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ROBERT POZARYCKI
AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ
NIRMAL SINGH
EMILY DAVENPORT
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SUZANNE MONTEVERDI
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STORY: Popular Greek restaurant Taverna Kyclades prepares to open
its Bayside location on Bell Boulevard
SUMMARY: Bayside residents can expect a new eatery serving
authentic Greek food to open up on a bustling commercial strip in the
next couple of weeks.
REACH: 17,692 people (as of 12/11/17)
Time for a master plan on city education
Two Queens schools that have long wished for additional classroom space
are fi nally getting what they’ve wanted.
In Forest Hills, the city’s School Construction Authority (SCA) is erecting a
four-story extension at P.S. 144 that will provide 26 new classrooms and additional
amenities. Th e SCA is also building a 440-seat extension to the four-story
P.S./I.S. 128 in Middle Village — which was built less than a decade ago to
accommodate additional students and replace an obsolete, one-story school
building.
Both schools, along with too many other Queens public schools to mention,
are way overcrowded. More students than ever are moving into the
city’s public schools system, the result of a population surge and the rising
cost of private school tuition, which has sadly become prohibitive for too
many families in our area.
Queens is rapidly running out of real estate, and the city needs to start
being more creative when it comes to meeting the demand for school space.
Th e city should bring together education offi cials, both public and private,
and others to examine the projected need for school space over the next
three decades and formulate a master plan to ensure all children will be provided
with a proper education in a comfortable, safe and less crowded environment.
Th e challenge isn’t easy, but it’s one we can’t aff ord to shirk.
Our unshakable city
For the second time this year, a lone wolf terrorist tried to strike fear, mayhem
and death in the heart of New York — and failed.
Th e Halloween attack cost eight people their lives, but Monday’s bombing
in a Manhattan subway tunnel passageway was thankfully a complete fi asco.
Th e would-be suicide bomber’s homemade explosive device caused more
injury to himself than anyone — and he’ll live to be brought to justice.
Unfortunately, the day will come when another nutjob — radicalized
through internet videos and hellbent on harming strangers — will try to blow
themselves up in a corridor or drive a truck through a crowd.
When that happens, we again must step up and show the same resolve we
demonstrated this year: to quickly comfort the wounded, secure the city,
bring the suspects to justice and go on with our lives. Th ere is no greater and
more eff ective response to terrorism than that.
We will never cower to terrorists. We will never let them prevail.
Publisher & E ditor Victoria Schneps-Yunis
Co-Publisher Joshua A. Schneps
Associate Publisher Bob Brennan
E ditor-In-Chief Robert Pozarycki
VP, Events, Web & Social Media Amy Amato-Sanchez
Art Director Nirmal Singh
S ocial Media Manager Emily Davenport
S taff Reporters Katrina Medoff, Angela Matua
Suzanne Monteverdi
Contributing Reporters Cliff Kasden, Samantha Sohmer, Elizabeth Aloni
Assistant to Publisher Deborah Cusick
Classified Manager Celeste Alamin
Controller Maria Valencia
President & CEO Victoria Schneps-Yunis
Vice President Joshua A. Schneps
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