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Olympic Champs' Names Recalled Mar. 15-21, 2012 Your Neighborhood - Your News ® FREE THE NEWSPAPER OF LONG ISLAND CITY, WOODSIDE, SUNNYSIDE, ELMHURST, EAST ELMHURST & CORONA Pages G1-G8 Pages S1-S52 Parents want Olympic champs’ names recalled PS 78 in LIC to stay open Renamed Sunnyside street salutes great athletes who gathered at Celtic Park some of the greatest Olympic historian Ian McGowan hope the About 70 people turned out BY REBECCA HENELY BY REBECCA HENELY champions. stadium and those athletes will for the street renaming to honor With Saturday’s unveiling never be forgotten. the Irish-American Athletic Club, Community District Edu- Where apartments and car- of Winged Fist Way, a street co- “This is a recognition that an athletic and cultural organiza- cation Council 30 held a meet- filled streets now stand in Sunny- named for 43rd Street and 48th is long, long overdue,” U.S. Rep. tion whose members won 50 Olym- ing on the upcoming middle and side, there was once a grand sta- Avenue, City Councilman Jimmy Joseph Crowley (D-Jackson pic medals from 1900 to 1924. The high school to be built in Hunters dium, Celtic Park, that produced Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) and Heights) said. Continued on Page 14 Point, but many of the parents of younger children were more con- cerned about the future of PS 78, the school where the meeting was HAPPY HOLI held. “This is a far-off issue for many of these parents,” said Isaac Carmignani, co-president of CDEC 30, about the new school. The council invited repre- sentatives of the city School Con- struction Authority and the city Division of Portfolio Planning to PS 78, at 48-09 Center Blvd. in Long Island City, to discuss IS/ HS 404, a school planned for 150 51st Ave. in Hunters Point. Monica Gutierrez, of the SCA, said IS/HS 404 will have 432 junior high school seats and 433 high school seats and is on track to open in 2013. The school is ac- cessible to those with disabilities , set up to deal with special educa- tion and will have an auditorium, air conditioning, Smart Boards and a terrace on the roof. “You name it, it has it,” Guti- errez said of the school. About 60 attendees at last Thursday’s meeting were asked about their objectives for the new Astoria resident Bibi Nazir sports colorful dye on her face during the Phagwah parade, which celebrates the Hindu holiday. See coverage on Pages 5,18. school. Many, when asked to raise Photo by Christina Santucci Continued on Page 14 A CNG Publication • Vol. 15, No. 11 112 total pages 2 AT Big Six wants bus restored Astoria cabbie claims COM . Van Bramer says lack of service puts kids going to PS 229 at risk banker ballistic: Cops BY REBECCA HENELY the open partition, causing TIMESLEDGER injuries to Ammar’s hand A Morgan Stanley ex- that required stitches, Dar- ecutive pleaded not guilty ien police said. in Connecticut Superior Jennings allegedly Court Friday to attacking also said to Ammar, “I’m . 15-21, 2012 . 15-21, 2012 a New York City cab driver going to kill you, you should AR when the cabbie asked for go back to your country!” , M his $204 fare for driving the Stamford Advocate re- EDGER L him from Manhattan to his ported. home in Darien, Conn. After the alleged at- IMES T The New York Post tack, Ammar drove to the identified the driver as Mo- side of the road and called hamed Ammar of Astoria. 911. “He was drunk and The Morgan Stanley out of control, and he could banker contacted the po- have killed me,” Ammar lice two weeks after the told the Post. “That was one incident and was arrested of the scariest moments of Feb. 29, Darien police said. my life.” He paid a $9,500 cash bond William Bryan Jen- and was released on bail, nings faces charges of as- Darien police said. sault, intimidation due to Jennings has claimed bias and larceny in connec- he was afraid he was being tion with the Dec. 22 inci- abducted and acted in self- Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (c.) stands with Big Six Towers children who go to PS 229 and their parents to protest the DOE’s elimina- dent, according to the Con- defense, the Stamford Ad- tion of bus service across the intersection of 61st Street and Laurel Hill Boulevard. Photo by Rebecca Henely necticut courts’ website. vocate reported. The Darien Police De- Ammar told the Post BY REBECCA HENELY said. of Education spokeswoman was cited as being danger- partment said Jennings Continued on Page 14 PS 229, at 67-25 51st Marge Feinberg said all ous 45 years ago and has agreed to pay Ammar $204, City Councilman Road, is on the Woodside school-wide waivers have not changed since then. He the city Taxi and Limou- Jimmy Van Bramer (D- and Maspeth border, less been done away with, al- said 15 children are also al- sine Commission driver’s Sunnyside) held a rally last than a mile away from Big though parents can request ready able to take the bus to rate for the approximately Thursday with Big Six Tow- Six at Queens Boulevard them individually for their PS 229 in the morning. 40-mile drive, before they ers residents protesting the and 61st Street, which children. “Please put the kids left the city Dec. 22. lack of bus service for chil- makes it ineligible for bus “We conducted a thor- on the bus,” Haggerty said. But when they got to dren of the Woodside apart- service. ough review as a result of “It’s as simple as that. No Jennings’ house, the bank- ment complex to PS 229. But the quickest eliminating the school-wide money needs to be expend- er allegedly refused to pay The councilman and way to get to the school is waiver,” Feinberg said. ed here.” and an argument began, others say this decision, through an intersection “The review determined Van Bramer said he Darien police said. made in 2010, has forced of the north side of Laurel that the intersection over was calling on the DOE to Ammar tried to call students in Grades 3 to 6 Hill Boulevard, the east which concern has been reconsider the decision in the police, but when he to walk across Laurel Hill and west sides of 61st Street expressed has both a traffic light of the accidents that could not find a signal to Boulevard and 61st Street, north of the boulevard and signal and a sidewalk along have occurred at the inter- call 911 on his cell phone, Morgan Stanley banker which the adults character- where 61st Street becomes the underpass.” section. he tried to drive to the ize as a dangerous intersec- a two-way street beneath Yet residents say the “We cannot wait until center of town to find an William Bryan Jennings says tion where multiple acci- the Brooklyn-Queens Ex- spot can be scary to navi- a child is hurt,” he said. officer, Darien police said. he is not guilty of stabbing dents have occurred. pressway. gate, especially for a child. Residents said they As Ammar was driving an Astoria cabbie after a dis- “I am as outraged to- Big Six residents once Tom Haggerty, a member had witnessed bad acci- away, Jennings allegedly pute over fare from Manhattan day as I was the day they had a waiver for bus ser- of Big Six’s board of direc- dents and been in some of took a pen knife out and to a Connecticut town. announced it,” Van Bramer vice, but city Department tors, said the intersection Continued on Page 14 stabbed at Ammar through Photo courtesy Darien Police IN THIS ISSUE HOW TO REACH US Police Blotter ........................................................8 Going Green in Queens .............................G1-G8 MAIL: 41-02 Bell Boulevard, Bayside, NY 11361 PHONE: Display Advertising: (718) 260-4521 — Editorial: (718) 260-4545 Editorials & Letters .......................................10-11 Guide to Queens ........................................S1-S52 FAX: Editorial (718) 224-2934 — Display: (718) 224-5821 Dishing with Dee .................................................12 QGuide ............................................................23-27 Classified: (718) 260-2549 Political Action ....................................................12 Sports ............................................................ 33-36 E-MAIL: Editorial: [email protected] Focus on Queens ................................................20 Classified .......................................................37-42 Display Advertising: [email protected] Classified: [email protected] TO SUBSCRIBE: Call (718) 260-4521 Copyright©2011 Queens Publishing Corp. 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