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Pols Pass Queens Library Reform • 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 27–July 3, 2014 Your Neighborhood - Your News® FREE ALSO COVERING ELMHURST, JACKSON HEIGHTS, LONG ISLAND CITY, MASPETH, MIDDLE VILLAGE, REGO PARK, SUNNYSIDE July 4th fi reworks may Visit us online LIC artist be visible in boro TimesLedger.com emotes Page 4 QGuide Page 39 TimesLedger Pols pass Queens Library reform sold to former Board members president, wife HONORING A SOUTHEAST QUEENS LEADER can be replaced BY NATHAN TEMPEY under new rules News executives Les Good- stein and his wife Jennifer are BY ALEX ROBINSON buying the Community Newspa- per Group — the umbrella com- State lawmakers set politi- pany that publishes TimesLedger cal differences aside last week to Newspapers, the Brooklyn Paper, make sure the state Legislature Brooklyn Courier-Life, the Bronx passed a Queens Library reform Times, Caribbean Life and sev- bill. eral other weekly papers and spe- Once Gov. Andrew Cuomo cialty magazines — from News signs the bill, it will reform the Corp. library’s board of trustees, giving The husband-and-wife team the mayor and borough president made the announcement to the power to remove board members. assembled staff at the Brooklyn The bill was authored by headquarters of CNG Monday state Assemblyman Jeffrion Au- morning. bry (D-East Elmhurst) and Bor- Les Goodstein formed the ough President Melinda Katz af- Community Newspaper Group as ter the board of trustees failed to an executive for the international oust or suspend the library’s chief media conglomerate News Corp., executive officer, Thomas Galan- overseeing it as president until te, following allegations of fiscal his retirement in July 2013. Dancers from St. Benedict the Moor perform inside the Guy R. Brewer United Democratic Club during a ceremony to mismanagement and revelations “When I left I said, like Ar- co-name the corner of Linden Boulevard and 197th Street in memory of political activist Dora Young. See story on he made a $392,000 salary. nold Schwarzenegger in ‘The Page 3. Photo by Christina Santucci The state Senate passed the Continued on Page 49 Continued on Page 47 A CNG Publication Vol. 2 No. 26 60 total pages 2 TL Neighbors fi ght JFK plan City bars fi lm crews COM . Eastern Queens Alliance takes airport to court over runaway expansion from shoots in LIC TIMESLEDGER BY BILL PARRY The ban on production BY JUAN SOTO covers many of the streets The city declared a by the waterfront that are 3, 2014 3, 2014 Residents in southeast moratorium on film and so popular because of the ULY Queens want to ground the television production on views of the Manhattan Port Authority’s plan to several streets in the Hunt- skyline. The zone covers 27–J rehabilitate a runaway at ers Point section of Long 46th to 49th avenues be- UNE JFK Airport. Island City. tween Vernon and Center , J They filed court papers The move comes after boulevards. EDGER claiming that the project to years of complaints from The news was welcome L expand the tarmac 730 feet residents and businesses relief for Hunters Point IMES T closer toward the 160-acre that have been affected by resident Doreen Dwyer, a Idlewild Park should un- film crews and their ve- community activist who dergo, before any construc- hicles. has lobbied against the film tion begins, a full environ- “We sent a letter to the crews for years. mental impact study. mayor’s Office of Media “They are rude and The Federal Aviation and Entertainment listing abusive when they are sav- Administration approved the many complaints we’ve ing parking spots for the the plan’s take-off, contend- heard,” Community Board 2 big rigs,” she said. “There ing the project will have no Chairman Joe Conley said. have been fist fights over significant environmental “These crews take up two parking spaces. They wait impact on the area. days of parking for every with their parking cones But the Eastern day they shoot that incon- overnight to claim the Queens Alliance, a federa- veniences our residents. It spots. One morning I came tion of civic associations really costs our businesses out and found a large Snap- from southeast Queens, dif- customers because there’s ple bottle filled with urine. fers completely from that Map of JFK International Airport showing areas affected by noise pollution, according to some stud- no place to park and there’s That’s not acceptable at finding. The group filed an ies. Photo courtesy of the Eastern Queens Alliance no trickle-down to the lo- all.” appeal with the U.S. Court cal economy because these Conley recalled a day of Appeals Second District needed to comply with new studies about air and noise airports.” The organization crews are self-contained.” two years ago when five dif- to ground the expansion of air safety requirements set pollution in communities believes that work at the He added, “They don’t ferent crews were shooting the runaway. by the FAA. The project, that live in a 6-mile radius runaway has not began. even use the restaurants in one day. “This project needs which includes widening of JFK. Because of the health because they have their Dwyer remembered an environmental impact the runaway from 150 to 200 “We are just trying to concerns, including re- own catering.” Continued on Page 47 study,” said Tamara Mitch- feet, should be completed have the communities that search that suggest there ell, environmental expert before the end of 2015. live around the airport to are a number of diseases from the alliance. “Noise Neighbors of the air- be environmentally safe,” associated with living near pollution, air pollution,” port are hoping the U.S. said Mitchell, adding that airports, Mitchell and the she added. “A lot of issues Court of Appeals Second although the FAA monitors association are calling for a are not being addressed.” District stops the project. airports, “there isn’t an multi-level research effort Mitchell, at a round- “We are fighting this agency that critically keeps that will analyze the effects table discussion sponsored expansion in court, and we an eye on them.” of air and traffic noise. by Eastern Queens Alli- hope the airport has to do According to the East- “We must find out ance, updated neighbors on an environmental study be- ern Queens Alliance, sev- what the real effects are on the efforts being made to fore anything else,” Mitch- eral studies have shown community members,” she halt the project to reshape ell added. that living within a 6-mile said. the tarmac. During the forum radius of an airport “you The Port Authority, held last week at St. Pe- may be at risk of dying pre- Reach reporter Juan which manages JFK Inter- ter’s Lutheran Church, in maturely from an environ- Soto by email at jsoto@cn- national Airport, said the Rosedale, residents dis- mental carcinogen, such as glocal.com or by phone at The Long Island City waterfront is closed to television and film expansion of the runaway is cussed findings of several chemicals associated with 718-260-4564. production crews for up to six months. 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TIMESLEDGER is published weekly by News Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., 41-02 Bell Boulevard, Bayside, NY. 11361, (718) 229-0300. The entire contents of this publication are copyright 2014. All rights reserved. The newspaper will not be liable for errors appearing in any advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Periodicals postage paid at Flushing, N.Y.. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the TimesLedger C/O News Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. 41-02 Bell Boulevard, Bayside, N.Y. 11361. 3 St. Albans street renamed in honor of late Dora Young TL T IMES Political activist, who died at 93, was fi rst woman to serve as vice chair of Queens Democratic Party L EDGER munity and a role model who was Archie Spigner, who worked with , J BY ALEX ROBINSON UNE instrumental in getting African Young for decades. 27–J Community leaders joined Americans elected to city, state Among the elected officials elected officials in St. Albans and federal offices. who came to pay tribute to Young ULY Saturday afternoon to honor and “She was responsible of were former Borough President 3, 2014 celebrate the life of Dora Young, making sure that many ladies in Claire Shulman, state Sen. Mal- a political activist, veteran of the southeast Queens became judg- colm Smith (D-Jamaica) and civil rights movement and promi- es,” said Renee Bluford, president Assembly members William TIMESLEDGER nent public servant. of the Democratic club. Scarborough (D-St. Albans) and City Councilman I. Daneek Young was a Democratic dis- Vivian Cook (D-Jamaica). Miller (D-St. Albans) and former trict leader for the 29th state As- Dancers and drummers . Deputy Borough President Leroy sembly District at the time of her from St. Benedict School of Dance COM Comrie hosted an event at the death.
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