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• JAMAICA TIMES • ASTORIA TIMES • FOREST HILLS LEDGER • LAURELTON TIMES LARGEST AUDITED • QUEENS VILLAGE TIMES COMMUNITY • RIDGEWOOD LEDGER NEWSPAPER • HOWARD BEACH TIMES IN QUEENS • RICHMOND HILL TIMES Aug. 14–20, 2015 Your Neighborhood — Your News® FREE ALSO COVERING ELMHURST, JACKSON HEIGHTS, LONG ISLAND CITY, MASPETH, MIDDLE VILLAGE, REGO PARK, SUNNYSIDE Car ban plan Queens beats Legionnaires panned by fans Illness hits 13 in Flushing, but patients recover before Bronx outbreak of Astoria Park BY MADINA TOURE BY BILL PARRY In the aftermath of a small A SIZZLING SUMMER STREET FAIR outbreak of Legionnaires’ dis- A lawmaker’s request to ease in Queens this spring, bor- ban cars from Shore Boule- ough hospitals and buildings vard in Astoria Park is meet- are continuing to undertake ing resistance from residents safety preventive measures in of western Queens. light of the recent outbreak in Following the June 27 fatal the South Bronx. hit-and-run of Betty Jean DiBi- In April and May, 13 people asio at Ditmars Boulevard and got sick with Legionnaires’ in 19th Street at the northern Flushing, three of whom live edge of the park, City Coun- in the Bland Houses at 40-21 cilman Costa Constantinides College Point Blvd. in Flush- (D-Astoria) started a petition ing, according to a Health De- calling for better traffic safety partment spokeswoman. measures in the neighbor- As of Wednesday, there had hoods surrounding the park. been 115 cases and 12 deaths Last week, Assemblywom- in the South Bronx, accord- an Aravella Simotas (D-Asto- ing to Mayor Bill de Blasio. ria) went even further when There had been no new cases she penned a letter to the city since Aug. 3. Health Commis- DOT requesting that the agen- sioner Dr. Mary Bassett issued cy close Shore Boulevard be- an order Aug. 6 that owners of tween Astoria Park South and buildings with cooling towers Ditmars Boulevard to traffic, are required to register their citing numerous accidents buildings and disinfect their involving pedestrians and towers. motorists. Aside from the traf- Legionnaires’ disease is a fic conditions, residents have type of pneumonia caused by long complained of drag rac- Legionella bacteria that grow ing, loitering in idle vehicles, in warm water and are com- and persistent noise along the monly found in cooling tow- scenic waterfront roadway. ers. “One of the great things Some buildings use the about Astoria Park is the ac- towers in their air condition- cess it provides to the water- High above JAMS, the annual Jamaica Arts and Music Festival rocks. Jamaica Avenue is packed with ing, ventilation or heating sys- front,” Simotas said. “With food vendors, carts, performers and craft booths in one of the city's biggest annual street fairs. tems. cars racing up and down Shore More photos on Page 35. Photo by Nat Valentine The Health Department Continued on Page 54 Continued on Page 36 Mom said baby had evil spirit: DA BY SADEF ALI KULLY said, even though an elected of- window in their fourth-floor ficial pointed out that a medi- apartment at a little before 4 A young mother was cal center and police precinct a.m. Aug. 7. The infant fell 42 charged with tossing her three- were nearby. feet into the courtyard of the week-old son out of the window According to the criminal building on the corner of 115th at a Richmond Hill apartment complaint filed by the Queens Street and Myrtle Avenue. building because she feared he DA’s office, Rashida Chowd- Chowdhury, who faces murder Authorities take evidence from a Richmond Hill apartment building where a was possessed by an evil spirit, hury, 21, threw her son Riz- charges, said she had to “stop dead baby was found in a courtyard. Photo by Robert Stridiron the Queens district attorney wan Ahmad from a bathroom Continued on Page 54 A CNG Publication Vol. 3 No. 33 60 total pages Sunnyside loves Luke New bus lanes head Civic leader remembered with street co-naming honor to Woodhaven Blvd. BY GABRIEL ROM destrians. BY BILL PARRY The bus lanes, for the time New bus lanes are be- being, will not be monitored The late civic leader Luke ing added to both sides of by cameras, though that may Adams was so revered in Sun- Woodhaven Avenue, between change if Gov. Andrew Cuo- nyside that he had a street co- Dry Harbor Road and Met- mo signs a bill passed by the named in his honor less than ropolitan Avenue, a stretch state Senate to continue New a year after his death. Com- that covers approximately York City’s bus lane camera munity leaders, elected offi- 1.3 miles. Implementation of enforcement program. cials and nearly 200 residents the lanes—which consists The new lanes are a pre- gathered to unveil “Luke Ad- primarily of redrawing the cursor to a much larger re- ams Way” at the corner of 46th street lines—began in mid- design of Woodhaven Boule- Street and Queens Boulevard, July, according to the MTA. vard as part of the Select Bus right next to the iconic Sunny- The bus lanes will be in ef- Service program. SBS, which side Arch, that he helped build fect Monday through Friday has met opposition from area in the 1980s to revitalize the from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from civic organizations, prom- business district. 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Parking spaces ises to add pedestrian safety Adams, who died in No- and regulations will not be af- improvements, limited stop vember at 76, was involved fected by the new lanes. service, off-board fare collec- in daily community work for Queens Boulevard and 46th Street is co-named to honor the memory of The new bus lanes, which tion, and more bus lanes. Lo- more than 40 years as a leader Sunnyside civic leader Luke Adams. Photo by Bill Parry overlap with Select Bus Ser- cal transportation advocates of the Gateway Restoration vice lanes, are part of a sepa- worry that the bus lanes, SBS project and former president for his generosity, his laugh out the following week.” rate project, first alluded to or otherwise, will both take of the Sunnyside Chamber of and his spirit.” Many of his friends spoke in the city Department of up valuable parking spaces Commerce and the Sunnyside- Adams became the owner of during the ceremony. Transportation 2009 “Con- and depress neighborhood Woodside Lions Club. He was Don Bar Travel on 46th Street Kris Czerniachowicz said gested Corridors” study. The businesses during the con- most recently a vice president in 1972 and that’s where he Adams changed her life. study identified both short- struction process. and founding member of Sun- and like-minded friends would “He turned me into an ad- term and long-term improve- According to the city De- nyside Artists and a reluctant meet to discuss different ways dict, a service addict,” she ments to help reduce conges- partment of Transportation, recipient of the first Luke Ad- of promoting the neighborhood said. “The more you do to help tion and vehicular emissions, construction for the SBS ser- ams Sunnysider of the Year and all of its small businesses. people, the more you want to and to improve mobility in vice is expected to end in 2018. award. Friends like Tony Lana, the do. It’s like a drug.” the Woodhaven area. A 2014 “It is important that we longest serving member of the U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D- follow-up study found Wood- Reach reporter Gabriel never forget the life of Luke Kiwanis Club and director of Jackson Heights), who in Feb- haven Boulevard to be one of Rom by e-mail at grom@cn- Adams,” City Councilman the Sunnyside Drum Corps, ruary submitted a statement the most dangerous corridors glocal.com or by phone at (718) Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sun- which performed at the cer- to the Congressional Record in the city for drivers and pe- 260–4564. nyside) said. “His work helped emony. remembering his friend of put Sunnyside on the map and Lana was scheduled to 30 years, called the street co- has left a lasting impression speak but could not. naming a “fitting tribute to that will forever be felt in our “I was way too emotional someone who will not only be community. By ceremoniously and I didn’t want to get choked remembered for his accom- co-naming 46th Street in his up in front of my kids,” he plishments as a civic leader, honor we help ensure future said. “Luke and I started our but also for his generosity and generations of Sunnysiders businesses in ‘72 and worked selflessness.” remember his legacy and all together on Gateway and the Community Board 2 Chair- the great work he did for this other organization. We always man Pat O’Brien, whose family neighborhood.” had our heads in the same roots in Sunnyside date back State Assemblwoman Cath- place and he always put his to the 1870s, says he will be re- erine Nolan (D-Ridgewood) cut money up. If he was having membered as a great leader. short a family vacation to at- an event, he would pay for the “The beautiful and diverse tend and help honor her friend best cake.” fabric of Sunnyside has been of more than 30 years. Mark Wilensky, the current woven by a number of wonder- “Luke Adams was an out- president of the Sunnyside- ful, talented, and committed standing Sunnyside commu- Woodside Lions Club, said, “He individuals over the years,” nity treasure, a lover of travel, was like a big brother to me for he said.

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