Updated every day at June 10, 2012 Your Neighborhood — Your News® Queens South Koo fi ghts on for comfort women ranked No. 2 in pupil arrests Korean Americans back councilman in bid to honor WW II sex slavery victims BY RICH BOCKMANN BY JOE ANUTA The NYPD’s Queens South ARCH OF FLOWERS A group of Korean-American patrol borough ranked second civic organizations and city law- in the city, behind the Bronx, in makers gathered Monday night to the number of students arrested remember the Asian women who at public schools during the first they contend were forced into three months of 2012, according sex slavery during World War II, to an NYPD report released last a topic that has also heated up week by the New York Civil Lib- tensions between the group and erties Union. Japan. There were 54 arrests made “We are asking everyone in the patrol in the beginning of here to support constructing more the year, compared with 108 in the monuments for comfort women,” Bronx and 13 in Queens North, said Chang Han, president of The according to the report. Korean American Association of The city has eight patrol Greater New York. boroughs, and Queens South cov- Han spoke to a crowd of about ers Kew Gardens Hill, Pomonok, 100 people in the auditorium of Utopia and Fresh Meadows in ad- JHS 189, at 144-80 Barclay Ave. dition to the remainder of the bor- in Flushing, where he and other ough south of the Jackie Robinson speakers referred to a New Jersey and Grand Central parkways. plaque that was erected in 2009 as With the release of the num- the first monument in the country bers, the NYCLU called on Mayor to commemorate comfort women, Michael Bloomberg’s administra- who they said came primarily tion to reform the school-safety from Korea, China and the Philip- policies the group says dispropor- pines and were used as sex slaves tionately affects young black and by the Japanese military. Latino males. City Councilman Peter Koo Of the 327 arrests made (D-Flushing) also spoke, recall- throughout the city during the ing the fact that he met comfort 58-day period, 64 percent involved women at an event held at the St. Luke’s students Maxim Skibola and Angelina Rama (front) carry a crown of flowers with classmates Robert black students, who make up 31 Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Planz and Tara Lynch during a Mass on the great lawn of the Whitestone school to bless a new playground. percent of the city’s student popu- Queensborough Community Col- Photo by Christina Santucci Continued on Page 20 Continued on Page 20 A CNG Publication • Vol. 1, No. 11 LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS INSIDE FREE LAMINATES CARPET – 3 Rooms Any Room SHOP $ $699 AT FREE PADDING! FREE INSTALLATION! 1-800-RUGS-R-US 399(up to 288 sq ft) HOME 1-800 -784-7787 www.1800RugsRUs.net (up to 108 sq ft) 2 STATE OF THE ART PAIN TREATMENT COM . 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A&P, which owns mul- Some customers said tiple supermarket chains, they also bought groceries said in a statement last at supermarket Stop & Shop, week that the Pathmark, at 34-51 48th St. in Long Is- at 42-02 Northern Blvd., land City a few blocks from would be shutting its doors the Pathmark. A few others and any potential reassign- said they shopped for gro- ments for the employees ceries at the wholesale club would be handled on a case- retailer Costco, at 32-50 by-case basis. Vernon Blvd. near Raven- “While this is a very swood. difficult circumstance for Most said they would our associates, custom- miss the Pathmark when it ers, partners and the local left, however. communities, we remain “Here is better stuff,” focused on providing great said Manhattan resident value and service to our Emerick Csontos, who of- customers,” spokeswoman ten visits the neighborhood. Barbara Nieto admitted to performing a liposuction procedure on a woman at her spa, which once operated out of this Corona address, March Connor said in a “Everything looks fresh.” that put her client in the hospital. Photo by Rebecca Henely statement. The shoppers were not A&P did not cite a the only ones who said they BY REBECCA HENELY in a statement. “Instead, performed the procedure, cedures can be lifelong reason for the closure. The were not looking forward she nearly caused the death injecting her with a pain- deformity and even death,” Long Island City Pathmark to Pathmark’s flight. Ni- A Corona woman of the young woman by reliever, using a machine city Health Commissioner will be closing four months lufa Afrose, manager of the pleaded guilty to assault performing medical pro- to take out the stomach fat, Dr. Thomas Farley said in a prior to the end of its lease. Dunkin’ Donuts at the same and unlawfully practicing cedures for which she was injecting the pain reliever statement. “We urge anyone The supermarket is address, said her business medicine last week for per- neither licensed to perform into the buttocks and put- considering cosmetic sur- among many commercial would be slow after the loss forming a liposuction and nor capable of perform- ting the fat into her but- gery to have it performed properties along Northern of her longtime neighbor. fat re-injection on a client ing.” tocks, the DA said. After by a licensed, reputable Boulevard, such as auto She said her store and the that nearly killed her, the Nieto held New York it was over, Nieto said the health care provider.” dealerships and super- Pathmark often shared cus- Queens district attorney’s Department of State licens- woman would need to have Nieto has performed stores like Best Buy and tomers. office said. es for beauty enhancement follow-up massage sessions, this procedure on more The Home Depot. Many “If they’re busy, we’re Barbara Nieto, 29, businesses, but did not have the DA said. than 100 people, according shoppers interviewed by busy,” she said. of 58th Avenue and 99th the licenses to perform A few days after the to consent forms retrieved TimesLedger Newspapers Street in Corona, admitted the procedures or practice re-injection the client suf- from her offices, although her crime in court before medicine, the DA said. De- fered severe pain and high they had not suffered the Queens Supreme Court spite this, she operated two fever, the DA said. She went same medical emergency, Justice Barry Kron May 30, spas, Perfect Image Steth- to Flushing Hospital March the DA said. the DA said. Kron plans to ics, at Junction Boulevard 27 after finding it difficult She has been free on sentence her to two years near 41st Avenue in Co- to walk, the DA said. Doc- her own recognizance in prison and three years’ rona, and Bell Stetika Es- tors there found she had ab- since she was arrested, the post-release supervision thetics and Spa, on Corona scesses, or a buildup of pus, DA said.