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year in review
The top stories from March 2019
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
cmohamed@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
CITY SHUTS DOWN BAYSIDE
BAGEL SHOP AFTER FINDING
MULTIPLE SANITARY VIOLATIONS
Bayside’s Top Bagels shop at 40-18 Bell Blvd. was
forced to close its doors aft er failing a New York City
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH)
inspection guideline, scoring a 67 during its February
inspection.
According to the DOHMH, the lower a restaurant
scores, the better. Scores fall into three categories: public
health hazard, critical violations and general violations.
Several sanitary violations — public health hazards and
critical violations — were cited in the restaurant: Failing
to keep the food at the correct temperature, failing to
wash raw foods before serving them (i.e salad) and general
violations for not properly sanitizing cooking utensils.
DOHMH records show that the bagel joint had earned
10 points during an inspection in February 2018, which
earned them an A rating.
QUEENS ‘GAME OF THRONES’
FAN FINDS IRON THRONE
AT FORT TOTTEN
In the lead up to the anticipated fi nal season of HBO’s
‘Game of Th rones in April,’ six Iron Th rones were hidden
in six locations around the world — including one
in Queens — where fans set out in the Quest For Th e
Th rone.
On March 28, 22-year-old Melanie Joaquin found the
last of the six thrones at the historic Fort Totten Torpedo
Battery. According to Joaquin, she already knew where
the Th rone of the Crypt was located aft er seeing a hint
posted on the show’s Twitter account. Following the
announcement, fans headed down to Fort Totten to
check out the throne and posted their pictures on social
media. Th e Quest For Th e Th rone honored the distances
traveled by characters in the show, according to HBO.
Fort Totten Torpedo Battery was selected because of its
dark ominous setting, which was reminiscent of the basement
of King’s Landing. Th e fi ve other thrones across the
globe included the Th rone of the Forest at Puzzlewood in
England; Th rone of Joy in Castillo Atienza Guadalajara,
Spain; Th rone of the North in Björkliden, Sweden;
Th rone of Ice in Babcock Seeps in Canada; and Th rone
of Valyria in Brazil’s Coliseum Beach.
MINOR ARRESTED AFTER BAYSIDE’S
BENJAMIN CARDOZO HIGH
SCHOOL GOES INTO LOCKDOWN
A social media threat caused Benjamin Cardozo High
School to go into a “soft lockdown,” resulting in a male
student placed under arrest.
Offi cers from the NYPD 111th Precinct had received
911 calls at 2:13 p.m. on March 15 regarding the situation
and arrived at the scene in search of the suspect that
was possibly armed. Social media reports indicated that
the school went on lockdown aft er a picture of a gun was
posted by a student and his friends and that another student
was caught with B.B. gun in his bag.
A DOE representative had confi rmed that the NYPD
conducted a thorough search and swift ly recovered the
B.B. gun. All students and staff were reported safe and the
lockdown was lift ed. Last December, Cardozo went into
a full lockdown aft er a student slashed another in a stairwell,
prompting a large police response.
BAYSIDE RESIDENT CITES QUALITY
OF LIFE ISSUE AND ‘HORRIFIC’
ODORS STEMMING FROM
NEIGHBORING ‘HOARDER’
A foul odor from a neighboring apartment in Th e Bay
Club resulted in a resident reporting the issue to the
building’s management company.
According to the woman — who wanted to remain
unknown — for the past fi ve years, her neighbor exhibited
“hoarding” tendencies, which she believes may have
contributed to the odors and a roach problem. Describing
the smell as “defecation laying around,” she confronted
her neighbor about the stench and claimed that she
received a threatening and creepy letter in response.
Meanwhile, building management, she says, wasn’t
handling the issue. However, a few days later, management
had taken legal action in the Supreme Court of
Queens County, saying “an order was issued and they
were able to clean out the apartment and fi x anything
that was wrong.”
File Photo
Phota via Twitter/Game of Thrones
Queens resident Melanie Joaquin sits upon the Throne of the Crypt at Fort Totten
Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside The Bay Club in Bayside
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