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• JAMAICA TIMES • ASTORIA TIMES • FOREST HILLS LEDGER • LAURELTON TIMES LARGEST AUDITED • QUEENS VILLAGE TIMES COMMUNITY • RIDGEWOOD LEDGER NEWSPAPER IN QUEENS • HOWARD BEACH TIMES • RICHMOND HILL TIMES June 28-July 4, 2013 Your Neighborhood - Your News® FREE ALSO COVERING ELMHURST, JACKSON HEIGHTS, LONG ISLAND CITY, MASPETH, MIDDLE VILLAGE, REGO PARK, SUNNYSIDE Rock group Supreme Court heads to gig at tennis club invalidates key BY BIANCA FORTIS The Forest Hills Tennis Sta- dium has reached a major turn- ing point in its history. Although it has not been used for a major civil rights law event in years, the arena will host English folk rock band Mumford and Sons in August. Boro reps want to rewrite legislation The Aug. 28 concert is a trial run of sorts. If all goes well, the venue will have six more concerts BY RICH BOCKMANN the bi-partisanship and near a year for the next three years. unanimity that produced the “Not only is it a great venue Despite the partisan quag- 2006 authorization [of the act] Continued on Page 49 mire in Washington that has was achieved by a Congress in thwarted efforts to tackle gun which Republicans controlled reform, immigration and a farm both the House and Senate,” U.S. bill, Queens congressional mem- Rep. Gregory Meeks said. “Let Queens pols welcome bers said it was imperative their us come together, craft a cre- CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE colleagues come together to re- ative legislative strategy, and get Fireworks light up the Hellgate Bridge and East River during Central gay marriage ruling write a key provision of the 1965 to work on renewing the Voting Astoria’s 31st annual Waterfront Independence celebration, which Voting Rights Act the Supreme Rights Act.” also included a performance by the Queens Symphony Orchestra. Court invalidated Tuesday. On Tuesday, the court split See story on Page 9 Photo by Steven Malecki “We must remember that Continued on Page 54 A CNG Publication Vol. 1 No. 25 60 total pages CATS For MAYOR A New Yorker for all New Yorkers cats2013.com Paid for by Catsimatidis 2013 2 TL Man gunned down COM . in Corona: NYPD TIMESLEDGER BY CHRIS ENGELHARDT struck and pierced the front metal door, entering Police were still the hallway wall. 4, 2013 4, 2013 searching for a suspect in- Corona resident An- ULY volved in the fatal shooting dre, who declined to pro- of a 27-year-old man in a vide his last name, said 28-J residential section of Coro- his elderly mother lives in UNE na early Tuesday morning, the house and was sleep- , J the NYPD said. ing when the shooting oc- EDGER Police said that around curred. He quickly pointed L 1:55 a.m. Tuesday, officers out, however, that the in- IMES T Newly released state figures show Jamaica High School posted a 28 percent graduation rate last year as the city began phasing out the responded to a 911 call of a cident actually took place troubled school. man shot in front of a house next door. A small amount on 104th Street near 37th of blood remained on the Road within the confines of ground in front of the steps the 115th Precinct. outside that property. When they arrived, “I ran over here Jamaica HS gets poor grade officers found the victim around 9 a.m. The police unconscious and unre- wanted authorization to sponsive with one gunshot remove the bullet from the Graduation rate plummets as city phases out embattled school wound to his head. EMS ar- hallway,” he said, noting rived at the scene and pro- that sometimes a group of nounced the victim dead on between six to seven teen- BY RICH BOCKMANN should be phased out over two schools’ rates side-by- maica. “[Those students] arrival. agers would gather from a three-year period and side was like comparing are now a lost generation. As of Wednesday, po- next door and sit outside Newly released fig- replaced with the Jamaica apples and oranges. They’re taking away re- lice still had not identified on his mother’s property. ures by the state show Gateway to the Sciences Last summer the state sources and the students the victim and the investi- “I’d say, listen, you have to Jamaica High School saw school, which had existed Education Department are disadvantaged and the gation was continuing. No leave me some space.” its graduation rate drop as a successful program issued a report saying Ja- graduation rate demon- arrests had been made. Andre said police said almost 40 percent the year within JHS. maica High students were strates that.” A group of resi- the recovered bullet came the city started phasing Jamaica Gateway was not being offered honors All schools in New dents gathered outside a from a .45 caliber hand- out the troubled institu- one of the best perform- courses, advanced place- York City receive about home on 104th Street told gun. tion, and supporters of the ing schools in the 2011-12 ment classes or SAT prepa- two-thirds of their bud- TimesLedger Newspapers Another resident, who school said the numbers school year, graduating 85 ration courses. get through a formulation that two gunshots struck declined to give her name, are proof the school has percent of its students. Supporters of Jamai- known as Fair Student the house: One hit the front said she was shocked by the been left to fail. James Eterno, a social ca High said its students Funding, which allocates of the home and the other Continued on Page 54 The historic high studies teacher at Jamaica were stripped of resources dollars based on the num- school graduated just 28 High and the school’s Unit- and left to languish while ber of students and their percent of its students last ed Federation of Teachers pupils in other schools at needs, such as whether year, according to num- chapter leader, said part of the campus had an abun- they are English Language bers the state Education the problem is that high- dance of resources. Learners or students with Department put out ear- achieving students head “They didn’t have disabilities. lier this month. That was for Jamaica Gateway, leav- computers, they didn’t Jamaica High lost down 37 percent from the ing Jamaica High with a have smartboards, they about $1.8 million in its year earlier. high proportion of pupils had class sizes of 35 or Fair Student Funding the The city cited more facing uphill battles to get more,” said state Sen. first year of its phase-out. than a decade of gradu- to graduation day. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), ation rates that hovered “I’d take everything a vocal critic of Mayor Mi- Reach reporter Rich below 50 percent when it you hear about Jamaica chael Bloomberg and city Bockmann by e-mail at A small amount of blood remains on the ground in front of the recommended in early with a grain of salt,” he Schools Chancellor Den- [email protected] steps outside the property where the fatal shooting occurred. 2011 that Jamaica High said, adding putting the nis Walcott’s plan for Ja- or by phone at 718-260-4574. 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POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the TimesLedger C/O News Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. 41-02 Bell Boulevard, Bayside, N.Y. 11361. 3 Forest Park carousel gets landmark designation TL T IMES L New status ensures future modifi cations of beloved attraction must be vetted by city commission EDGER , J UNE BY BIANCA FORTIS ignation means a property Landmarks Preservation 28-J has special historical, cul- Commission for making The Forest Park Car- tural or aesthetic value and the right decision to bestow ULY ousel spun its way onto is an important part of the landmark status on this 4, 2013 the prestigious list of New city’s heritage. The new beautiful treasure.” York City landmarks af- status also means the car- The merry-go-round, ter the city Landmarks ousel is required to be kept originally located in TIMESLEDGER Preservation Commission in good condition and the Dracut, Mass., was hand- announced Tuesday that it commission must approve carved by famed artist and would give the special des- any alteration, reconstruc- carousel maker D.C. Muller . ignation to the attraction. tion, demolition or new in 1903. In 1972 it was COM “This is tremendous construction that could af- moved to Woodhaven. It is news,” Ed Wendell, presi- fect it. one of only two D.C. Muller dent of the Woodhaven The decision comes carousels in the country in- Residents’ Block Associa- after a long campaign by tact and still spinning.