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CF:8C :C8JJ@=@<;J @EJ@;< June 9, 2013 Your Neighborhood — Your News® Fund shortage Townsend leads borough’s stars may sink pool at Fort Totten Queens HS for Science also ranked among country’s 100 best high schools BY PHIL CORSO annual Top 2,000 list put out by for the Sciences at York College in assessing how prepared their stu- BY PHIL CORSO Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Jamaica at 73. dents are for college, analyzing Two Bayside high schools, But only two broke the Top The America’s Best High graduation rates, college appli- Residents of northeast along with eight others from 10 0 : Tow n s end H a r r i s H i g h S cho ol Schools 2013 ranking compiles cants and test scores. All but two Queens were hot with rage after across the borough landed in the in Flushing at 43 and Queens HS the country’s top high schools by of the 10 Queens schools to make learning they might lose their the list came from communities own free public pool unless the in the more northern part of the City Council can find the funding borough like Bayside, Flushing, to keep it afloat. Corona and Astoria. The city Parks commission- FELINE FORTRESS Bayside HS was ranked 331 er testified in a Council hearing out of the country’s 2,000 best, May 30 that an additional $1.5 mil- with an overall graduation rate lion was needed to keep four city of 91 percent and a college-bound pools open this year, including senior rate of 99 percent. Nearby the one at Fort Totten. If the mon- Benjamin Cardozo HS also made ey is not restored into the budget, the list at 1,153 with a graduation the Parks Department would be rate of 85 percent and college ac- forced to close the Bayside pool ceptance rate of 96 percent. along with Wagner Pool in Man- Both schools have enjoyed hattan, Howard Pool in Brooklyn plenty of recognition and suc- and Faber Pool in Staten Island. cess over the years as part of one Pool season will also be of the city’s most prestigious and shortened by two weeks for all celebrated districts: District 26, city facilities, Parks said, if the which includes schools in Belle- money is not there. rose, Floral Park, Oakland Gar- “Our decision was based on dens and Queens Village. several factors, including atten- One district over, Flushing’s dance figures, proximity to other Townsend Harris topped all the pools, access to public transit and borough schools in the listing at One of nearly two dozen cats and kittens peeks its head from Kitty City, a mini metropolis created by children, art- the location of the pools relative 43. The school aced a perfect 100 to residential communities,” a ists and city planners at Flux Factory in Long Island City for a one-day exhibit and adoption event. See story on percent for both graduation rate Parks spokesman said. Page 5. Photo by Christina Santucci and college-bound senior rates, Continued on Page 8 Continued on Page 8 City authors state Senate bill Sandy aid heads to Rockaway to lease parkland to USTA BY PHILIP NEWMAN Sandy. from the hurricane, which The process will start struck more than seven BY JOE ANUTA New York City will next month and registra- months ago. provide more than $640 tion has already begun. The Rockaways and A controversial bill that would help trans- million in federal money to Mayor Michael Broad Channel were dev- fer Queens parkland to the United States Tennis help thousands in the city, Bloomberg announced at astated by the superstorm, Association was introduced in Albany Monday Mayor Michael Bloomberg (c.) takes including residents of the City Hall Monday that the leaving such severe dam- without any names attached, although a source questions on the NYC Build It Back ini- Rockaways and other parts program, Build It Back, will age behind that empty said it was written by the mayor’s office. tiative at City Hall in Manhattan. of Queens still struggling include grants and loans to homes and shuttered busi- Continued on Page 10 Photo courtesy Michael Bloomberg to recover from Hurricane New Yorkers recovering Continued on Page 10 A CNG Publication • Vol. 2, No. 23 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT TIMESLEDGER.COM 2 Flushing food festival NYHQ Posts 9, 2013 features exotic dishes UNE , J BY JOE ANUTA EEKLY Excellent Results in W The Flushing Food UEENS Q Joint Commission Festival’s first year going public was so successful that the 450 lucky ticket holders devoured the entire Accreditation Survey stockpile of curries, noo- dles, sandwiches and sushi before the event was sched- When was the last time you said, “I want to go to the hospital?” If you uled to close last Saturday. are like most people, you don’t want to be hospitalized if you can avoid it. By noon, gourmands hoping to pick up unclaimed However, when you do need hospital care, and you want to feel better, passes lined up at the door you and your doctor want to choose the place where you can trust you of the Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel ballroom since will find a higher level of care and strong results. Adventurous eaters line up to try a wide variety of dishes at the the Downtown Flushing Flushing Food Festival. Photo courtesy Flushing BID Transit Hub Business Im- provement District had al- opened Malaysian restau- and garlicky dish accented “We have great news here at New York Hospital Queens. ready sold out of tickets. rant, at 35-20 Farrington with basil. In our latest Joint Commission accreditation survey Those who were autho- St., was spooning out halal After a closed trial run rized to enter found some of cuisine straight from the last year, the festival was we performed among the top handful of hospitals across Flushing’s best food gath- country’s Panang region. opened to the public for a $5 ered in one room. Mamak’s fare toed the fee, according to Dian Yu, the country surveyed in this period.” Restaurants represent- line between Indian- and executive director of the ing China, Taiwan, Viet- Southeast Asian-style cui- improvement district. nam, Thailand, Malaysia sine, since both are preva- “The people who want- The Joint Commission – THE authority in health care facility and Japan all had their own lent in the melting pot of ed to come really surpassed accreditation, conducts this survey. The survey reviews safety, quality unique dishes on display. Malaysia. On one hand, the number of tickets we and security for every health facility in the United States. One of the most dis- owner Nani Yusof Hughie had, which just shows that tinctive was beef tripe from whipped up lamb and chick- there is a market. People We are proud of our medical staff, administration, and employees. They have Cheng Du Tian Fu, a small en curries so hearty they are interested in trying dif- earned this survey result with what they do here each and every day – on our food stall in a subterranean seemed to defy the laws of ferent food,” he said. main campus and across our more than two dozen community medicine food court, at 41-28 Main gastronomy. On the other, The best part of the fes- St. Mamak was offering a tival was hearing from tick- facilities and primary care practice sites across the great boro of Queens. The prevalence of sweet dessert called cendol. et holders who discovered a And, we take this opportunity to share this news with our patients, our stomach and intestine in It is a coconut milk-based new restaurant or style of future patients, and the thousands of physicians who refer patients to us. Chinese and Taiwanese liquid containing beans, cooking that made them cuisine can test the limit palm sugar and a special want to go to the actual lo- See how we can help you feel better. Visit us online at nyhq.org or call of many adventurous eat- plant called the pandan leaf cation and have a proper 800-282-6684 to make an appointment with a member of our medical staff. ers. But rather than build often found in Thai cook- meal, telling friends about around the tripe or high- ing. In the restaurant, it is it in the process. If you want to read more about how the Joint Commission evaluates light it, the culinary minds poured over shaved ice. “Those experiences, health care facilities, go to www.jointcommission.org at the restaurant, named Pho Hoang, at 41-01 that is what we are aiming after the capital of Sichuan Kissena Blvd., returned for,” Yu said. “Our goal is Province, seemed to put the this year with wildly pop- to promote the local busi- flavor of the thinly sliced, ular Vietnamese ban mi nesses, which really helps tender offal on equal foot- sandwiches, which often the local economy.” ing with other ingredients include pork, cucumbers Yu predicts the festival — peanuts, cilantro and and heavy doses of cilantro will only return bigger and herbs cooked in what ap- — making them one of the better next year. Check out peared to be sesame oil — best sandwich-related inno- flushingbid.com for a list of making for a balanced and vations since the invention participating restaurants surprisingly refreshing of the handheld meal itself. and other suggestions for concoction. Also back at the fes- eating out in the neighbor- It was liberally spiced tival was 101 Taiwanese hood.