Aug. 18-24, 2011 Your Neighborhood - Your News® 75 cents THE NEWSPAPER OF LITTLE NECK, DOUGLASTON, GLEN OAKS, FLORAL PARK & NORTH SHORE TOWERS Proposal to extend Q36 to NE Queens rejected Page 2 Page 31 Health Dept. Douglaston residents revel in fun drops $2K fi ne for Doug hive Community day helps out charities as neighbors get autographs of ex-Mets BY RICH BOCKMANN BY CONNOR ADAMS SHEETS The Douglaston homeowner Thousands of baseball fans who was surprised last month and neighborhood residents when he was threatened with a flooded the commercial center of hefty fine over his beehive will Douglaston Saturday afternoon not have to pay up, but he said the for Douglaston Community Day, a city’s position on the matter is a first-time event aimed at celebrat- tough pill to swallow. ing the community and raising Tip Sempliner received a funds for charity. notice of violation when a city The festival was hosted by Department of Health inspector the Douglaston Chamber of Com- came by his home and claimed the merce and Strawberry’s Sports TimesLedger Newspapers car- Grill, which former New York toonist and inventor did not have Mets and Yankees star Darryl Continued on Page 18 Strawberry opened at 42-15 235th St. The huge crowd flocked to the celebration to enjoy good food, music and games and to get their Mets gear signed by former Amazin’s, including Kevin Mitch- ell, Bud Harrelson, Barry Ly- ons, Terry Leach and, of course, Strawberry himself. Strawberry, who began to MAILING ADDRESS GOES HERE plan the festivities with the Doug- laston chamber a year ago when his eatery opened to the public, also brought his friend Joey Fa- tone from the musical group ‘N Sync and former New York Jets player Sean Landetta, all in the name of raising money for The Darryl Strawberry Foundation’s Fight Against Autism, his chari- table organization, the chamber and Lady Lions basketball. Julia Marshall, 7, gets her Mets shirt autographed by former Amazin’ pitcher Terry Leach during Douglaston Day. Nicholas Greenberg, a Photo by Steven Malecki Continued on Page 19 A CNG Publication • Vol. 92, No. 33 64 total pages 2 LN Home focuses on Alzheimer’s MTA nixes proposal Brandywine Assisted Living will host forum to discuss U.S. strategy to extend Q36 route BY HOWARD KOPLOWITZ Queens neighborhoods. Glen Oaks, Floral . 18-24, 2011 . 18-24, UG The MTA shot down a Park, New Hyde Park and , A plan by eastern Queens civ- Bellerose are without a ic leaders to extend the Q36 north-south bus line after EDGER L bus line into a north-south- the MTA dissolved the Q79 IMES T route in their neighbor- last year, citing poor rider- hoods because the agency ship. said the proposal was too Ortiz said the line had costly. the second-lowest ridership “We have said previ- in the city, with about 650 ously that reinstating ser- weekday customers a day vice would have to be cost and 160 Saturday custom- neutral and the proposal ers a day on average. The made by the coalition for average ridership in the an extension to the Q36 city was about 12,000 cus- does not meet that crite- tomers a day. rion,” said Metropolitan The city Taxi & Lim- Transportation Authority ousine Commission insti- spokesman Kevin Ortiz. tuted a commuter van pilot Brandywine Assisted Living in Little Neck will host an input session for the National Alzheimer’s Plan Aug. 18. The Q36 runs from the program in the area, but Photo by Christina Santucci Jamaica bus terminal to it was discontinued after BY RICH BOCKMANN term care facilities to share ing, the prevalence of the strategy that will more ef- 256th Street in Floral Park. three months because of their views, comments and disease is expected to rise. fectively allocate resources The area does not low ridership. As part of an effort to perspectives about what ele- According to the Al- for research and medical have any north-south bus Glen Oaks Village develop a national plan to ments need to be addressed zheimer’s Association’s studies. routes. President Bob Friedrich, address Alzheimer’s dis- to help those affected by the website, Alzheimer’s is the “We desperately need Ortiz said the plan who helped devise the plan, ease, Brandywine Assisted disease. sixth leading cause of death funding to fill in the gaps,” would have cost the MTA said the proposal did not Living in Little Neck will The Alzheimer’s Asso- in the United States and is she said. $400,000 to add one more stand a chance during a host a meeting Aug. 18 to ciation had worked to urge the only one among the top The Alzheimer’s Asso- bus an hour to the line meeting last Thursday with solicit input from the stake- the federal government to 10 in the country without ciation hopes that by mak- and have it run to eastern Continued on Page 19 holders in the Alzheimer’s pass the National Alzheim- a way to prevent, cure or ing Alzheimer’s a national community. er’s Project Act earlier this even slow its progression. priority, the federal govern- Brandywine has a 24- year. “We continue to do a ment will be able to mirror bed capacity dementia unit, The act will create a better job and improve the the successes made in help- at 55-15 Little Neck Pkwy., coordinated national plan quality of life for people ing to lower the number of with 24-hour nurses on to overcome the Alzheim- with dementia,” Cohen deaths from other major duty for patients with a va- er’s crisis and will ensure said. “I think it’s important diseases such as HIV/AIDS, riety of memory-declining the coordination and evalu- for us to hear where we’ve influenza, pneumonia and issues. ation of all national efforts fallen short.” stroke. The New York City in Alzheimer’s research, Cohen said it is im- “There are so many and Long Island chapters clinical care, institutional portant to hear a variety ways we can appreciate of the Alzheimer’s Associa- and home- and community- of voices, such as those liv- and really improve on how tion will ask those living based programs. ing with Alzheimer’s who we deal with people with with Alzheimer’s and their “We’re expecting an are still able to express Alzheimer’s,” Cohen said. caregivers as well as rep- avalanche of people who are themselves about the type The public input ses- resentatives from the state going to need care,” said Su- and quality of care they sion will be held from 6 p.m. and local governments, the san Cohen, a spokeswoman are receiving. All this in- to 8 p.m. The Q79 bus route was axed by the MTA last year. The agency said research community and for Brandywine. With the put, she hopes, will serve ridership on the eastern Queens line was the second-lowest in the health systems and long- Baby Boom Generation ag- as the basis for a national city. 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Emmet Till or Martin Luther EDGER The Kupferberg Holocaust The Japanese government King Jr.,” he said, adding that , A Resource Center at Queensbor- abducted many of the women by not many Koreans are aware of UG ough Community College in Bay- telling them they would get good the comfort women. “These sto- 2011 . 18-24, side presented its first exhibit jobs in hospitals or factories, Park ries need to be told before they’re for the academic year last week said, and to this day it either out- gone.” entitled “Come from the Shad- right denies the women existed KAVC President Dongchan ows: Comfort Women,” which or claims they were commercial Kim said this exhibit was the first narrates the stories and history prostitutes. He said the issue only event held in conjunction with the of the women of Korea who were came to the public’s attention Jewish community. forced into sexual slavery during 60 years later, when in 1991 one Arthur Flug, the center’s the Japanese invasion of World woman came forward and admit- executive director, said QCC’s ap- War II.