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LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 11 Jan. 31, 2016 Your Neighborhood — Your News® Medical pot Transit groups blast gov on MTA dispensary Advocates push to alert public about lack of funding in Cuomo’s new budget opens in boro BY BILL PARRY public transit advocates were try- Straphangers Campaign and gram, even after the governor ing to get the governor to address Tri-State Transportation Cam- announced plans to “modernize BY BILL PARRY When members of Riders Al- the MTA budget and its $14 billion paign, to alert 9 million daily and fundamentally transform the liance lugged a 6-foot-tall card- deficit. MTA riders that Cuomo’s 2016-17 MTA” with billions of dollars in As a medical professional for board cutout of Gov. Cuomo onto On Tuesday, the Alliance budget proposal contains no new investment. more than 20 years, 52-year-old the No. 7 subway line in July, the joined other groups, such as the money for the MTA capital pro- His critics claim instead of Emily Taylor of Rego Park was providing any of the $7.3 billion very much against drug use and in state funding the governor never tried marijuana in her promised toward the capital life. Then she began suffering program, Cuomo’s budget offers from multiple neuropathies with WALK IN THE PARK only a non-binding reiteration of chronic stabbing pains all over his 2015 promise to fund the pro- her body beginning six years gram. Mayor Bill de Blasio, who ago. committed $2.5 billion in MTA “I had to try and control the funding, to be provided when the pain with huge doses of opiates state makes its contribution, also and other narcotics that left me does not include any of that new useless,” said Taylor, which is not funding in his 2016-17 budget pro- her real name because she asked posal. that her identity be protected. “Gov. Cuomo promised the “Then came the recurrent mi- world to transit riders, but all he graines that made me suicidal.” is delivering is another IOU,” Rid- When Vireo Health of New ers Alliance Executive Director York opened the borough’s first John Raskin said. “After all these medical marijuana dispensary promises, transit riders assumed last Friday, Taylor was the first there would be cash in the bud- patient through the door. After get, but it turns out it’s just an- a consultation she left the facil- other promise. The emperor has ity, located at 89-55 Queens Blvd., no clothes, or more accurately, he just steps away from the Queens promises he will have clothes in a Center mall in Elmhurst, with a Among the most popular sledding spots in Queens is Juniper Valley Park in Middle Village, where scores of kids few years, but he won’t say exact- week’s supply of cannabis-based flocked this week for a thrilling run down the the steeply banked slopes. Photo by Michael Shain ly when. If Gov. Cuomo is serious medication products in the forms about investing in public transit, Continued on Page 10 Continued on Page 10 Julio Rivera movie TWA hotel OK’d by boards to debut in Jax Hgts BY SADEF ALI KULLY to its 1962 glory through a a new era of jet air travel. privately funded invest- Unable to support the size Community Boards 10, ment. It features two six- of modern aircraft, the ter- BY BILL PARRY 12 and 13 unanimously ap- story hotel structures, minal was closed in 2001 proved the $265 rehabilita- which would contain 505 and has remained dark for A documentary film exploring the brutal anti- tion and conversion of the rooms standing behind the the last 14 years. gay murder of Julio Rivera in 1990 will have its TWA Flight Center at JFK iconic terminal. “We are proud to have world premiere during the Queens World Film International Airport into Built by world-renowned the widespread support of Festival in March. Three community boards approved the a 505-room hotel. architect Eero Saarinen, the southeast Queens com- “Julio of Jackson Heights” will be shown at renovation of the TWA Flight Center at JFK The proposed hotel plan the TWA Flight Center Continued on Page 8 Airport into a hotel. 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CHICKEN MARSALA 64-21 53rd Drive, Maspeth, NY 11378 | www.oneillsmaspeth.com Historic homes approved for expansions 3 Douglaston construction projects given go-ahead by Landmarks Preservation Commission Q UEENS BY TOM MOMBERG an addition to the property. the sides of awider driveway The 1,900-square-foot sloped into the ground with W The city Landmarks house was originally built a retaining wall against the EEKLY Preservation Commission on a large corner lot in 1926 front of the property. , J has approved major reno- by postwar East Hampton- The commissioners did AN . 31, 2016 vations and expansions for based architect Alfred have some concerns about two historic-district homes Scheffer. the proposal. in Douglaston—one on Bay Stacom has proposed re- The LPC approved the Street and another on Bev- locating the house’s drive- project under the condition erly Road. way from Beverly Road that Stacom match the pitch The Libby family—who to Douglas Road, where it of the roof of the addition to have owned a free-standing would lead into a new base- the existing structure, and single-family Colonial Re- ment-level two-car garage. that the driveway be rede- vival house at 233-20 Bay Above the garage the home signed to match the neigh- St. since the 1930s—has expansion would mirror borhood contextually. proposed not only repairing the existing facade to make “While (the Historic Dis- some deteriorating features The owners of the historic district house at 233-20 Bay St. plan to build out the first floor to make a space for a sun room on the tricts Council) agreed that of the home, but they also new, larger kitchen. Google Earth first floor and a new master the expansion of the house want to enclose the front bedroom and bathroom on was well conceived, the porch and add space to re- detached garage, enclosing isting kitchen into a den, was unanimous. Commu- the second floor. driveway is another matter,” model the first-floor layout the front porch with glass convert the current dining nity Board 11 previously ap- The architect said the to- Historic Districts Council to accommodate their cur- panels and rebuilding the room into a media room and proved the proposal. tal living space of the home Director Kelly Carroll said rent needs. rear porch. update the current central Elizabeth and Michael would be increased to about during the LPC hearing. The 1,640-square-foot Other proposed renova- “salon” room into a dining Sitler—who bought their 2,775 square feet once the ex- “While the former driveway house was originally built tions include a major exca- room. English Cottage-style house pansion is completed. was subdued, the proposed in 1905. vation to expand the cellar The LPC commission- at 240-82 Beverly Road in Details of the plan show width is overwhelming, the Little Neck-based archi- floor to the footprint of the ers posed no objections to 2010—are no longer con- the addition matching the fieldstone posts are inappro- tect Kevin Wolfe is working new addition for a new large the proposal at the January tent with its small layout, existing structure, with a priate and non-contextual, with Alice Libby to replace kitchen, walk-in closet and hearing and said the plans according to Bayside archi- nearly symmetrical roof and the heavy wooden gate all the existing windows powder room. Wolfe has were respectful of the ex- tect John Stacom, whom the arch but at a different pitch. would fare better if it were and shutters. They have planned to reconfigure the isting house. The commis- Sitlers hired to design and The design also calls for a transparent.” also proposed restoring the first floor to turn the ex- sion’s approval of the project oversee the construction of gate and two stone posts on Change to make Shore Boulevard one-way street is on track BY BILL PARRY ing an online petition Since 2009, more than a our entire neighborhood.