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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 Aug. 23-29, 2013 Your Neighborhood - Your News® FREE ALSO COVERING ELMHURST, JACKSON HEIGHTS, LONG ISLAND CITY, MASPETH, MIDDLE VILLAGE, REGO PARK, SUNNYSIDE South Jamaica fi re kills College Pt. famous chair designer virtuoso Page 2 QGuide PagePage 33 City passes plan Rockaway hospital open to merger to tear down Health care options 5Pointz in LIC EAST RIVER CELEBRATION on peninsula may BY JOE ANUTA dwindle: employees The city approved a contro- versial plan Wednesday to tear BY BIANCA FORTIS down the graffiti mecca in Long Island City known as 5Pointz and The future of St. John’s Epis- allow a developer to build high copal Hospital — the only hospi- rises in its stead. tal on the Rockaway peninsula The City Planning Commis- — is uncertain, according to staff sion voted in favor to allow the members, who say that the facil- Wolkoff family to construct 41- ity has already closed its chemi- and 47-story residential buildings cal dependency unit, transferred that would house 1,000 units on ownership of two nursing homes the corner of Jackson Avenue and and has failed to expand its emer- Davis Street, where the former gency department. warehouse currently stands, the Debbie Friedland, a regis- city said. tered nurse who has worked at The City Council now has the hospital for 20 years, said 20 days to decide whether or not there are fears that the hospital’s to also vote on the project, which dialysis unit could be next to go. lies in the district of Councilman She and Iona Folks, also a Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunny- registered nurse, said the prob- side). lem began with Hurricane San- The councilman issued a Tenzin Choezom, 7, tests her strength with a display set up by the New York National Guard at the third and final in- dy: the hospital provided care to statement in the wake of Wednes- stallment of the annual Shore Fest in Astoria Park. 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Photo by Christina Santucci “anybody and everybody” from day’s vote that he would indeed be the Rockaways and received no Continued on Page 32 Continued on Page 46 A CNG Publication Vol. 1 No. 33 52 total pages CATS For MAYOR A New Yorker for all New Yorkers cats2013.com Paid for by Catsimatidis 2013 2 TL Famed designer dies in fi re 2011 shooting suspect COM . cuffed in South: DA Inventor of Pollock Executive Chair lived in South Jamaica home TIMESLEDGER BY RICH BOCKMANN ing nearly a dozen inno- BY CHRISTINA SANTUCCI cent people — including a A fugitive who alleged- young girl now confined He was an internation- ly paralyzed a 14-year-old to a wheelchair because of ally renowned furniture girl when he opened fire on his alleged actions,” Brown designer who spent the a South Jamaica barbecue said. “This case will be vig- . 23-29, 2013 2013 . 23-29, UG last year of his life living in 2011 was arrested Mon- orously prosecuted.” , A in a studio apartment in a day in North Carolina and According to the South Jamaica house. was waiting to be brought charges, Miller left a late- EDGER L And on Tuesday, back to Queens, where night barbecue on Inwood IMES T 83-year-old Charles Pollock nearly a dozen counts of at- Road in August 2011 after died after a fire broke out tempted murder await him, he got into an argument in his first-floor residence, law enforcement officials with someone at the party, neighbors and his former said. Brown said. partner said. Tyrone Miller, 22, was He returned about 10 Pollock, who designed arrested near Charlotte, minutes later with two oth- the Pollock Executive Chair N.C., by the Charlotte- er individuals who remain in 1963, had lived in a four- Mecklenburg Police De- at large, and all three alleg- family home on 157th Street partment on charges of be- edly opened fire with hand- near 115th Avenue, accord- ing a fugitive from another guns, the DA said. ing to fellow residents. state, the local district at- Among the 11 victims Constance Smith, who torney’s office said. who were taken to hospitals had been Pollock’s partner Queens District At- for gunshot wounds was at Charles Pollock Design, Workers from the city medical examiner’s office remove the body of Charles Pollock from the home torney Richard Brown said then 14-year-old Lenaesha described it as possibly on 157th Street. Photo by Christina Santucci the 22-year-old was wait- Cheatham, who was hit in the best selling chair of all ing to be extradited to New the back by two bullets and time. repetitive loud sounds be- worst and headed outside visited his long-time girl- York to be arraigned on 11 is now paralyzed from the “It’s a great shock,” fore she smelled smoke at to wait for emergency re- friend, Sheryl Fratell, on counts of attempted mur- waist down, Brown said. Smith said, after wiping about 7 a.m. sponders. the Upper East Side and der. Deshawn Curtin, away tears. “We were still “That banging was Hours later members traveled by Access-a-Ride “The defendant is ac- who was also shot, told working on furniture to- coming from Charles, may- of the city medical exam- around the neighborhood. cused of taking mindless TimesLedger Newspapers day. He has paintings hang- be asking for help,” Kayulu iner’s office removed Pol- “It is sad,” Ebouki gun violence to new heights last year that he initially ing that he just completed said, explaining that as she lock’s body from the home. said. “My mom was just by deliberately firing into a thought he had twisted his last week. His ideas went and her two children evac- A Michigan native who complaining, how it was backyard filled with young ankle. on and on. He’s a wonderful uated, she asked her daugh- graduated from Pratt Insti- unfair ... how he needed partygoers and wound- Continued on Page 32 designer.” ter to check on Pollock, who tute, Pollock had garnered needed someone to take A spokeswoman for used a walker. acclaim from the executive care of him.” the Fire Department con- “I’m thinking, he’s chair’s design, and it was Pollock encouraged firmed Tuesday that an dead. He’s dead. We cannot put on display at the Met- his downstairs neighbor unidentified person was get in,” Kayulu said. ropolitan Museum of Art to pursue her dream of be- killed in the blaze and two Her daughter, 20-year- andthe Louvre in Paris, coming a singer by playing firefighters suffered minor old Naomi Ebouki, then among other locations. jazz classics like those sung injuries. Fire marshals used a key to open the door He had recently col- by Ella Fitzgerald. were investigating the to the senior’s apartment laborated with Jerry Hell- “He basically talks cause of the blaze. and was met with a wall of ing, president of Bernhardt about his char, how you Residents said they smoke. Design in North Carolina, design them,” Ebouki said. had tried to check on Pol- “I saw black smoke and to create a new chair — the “I was surprised. This man lock, who uses a walker. a fire up to here,” she said, CP Lounge Chair, which is famous. I said to myself, Mary Kayulu, who pointing to about a foot and was unveiled last year. ‘What is he doing here?’ He lives in the apartment be- a half off the ground. Ebouki said the re- is supposed to be in a better A shooting in a South Jamaica backyard, which left bulletholes (in- low Pollock’s, first heard The family feared the nowned designer often place.” set) in a fence, paralyzed a teenage girl. 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