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DOE Locks out Community Groups CF:8C :C8JJ@=@<;J @EJ@;< Dec. 9, 2012 Your Neighborhood — Your News® Kissena garden DOE locks out community groups looks to future Co-op owners barred from meeting in public schools, open only to nonprofi ts after suicide try ROCK RALLY BY PHIL CORSO BY JOE ANUTA Unless they are nonprofits, groups looking to use the city’s The new leaders of a Flush- public schools have been told to ing community garden held their back off by the city Department of first meeting last Thursday, Education, community leaders in months after a 75-year-old man Queens said this week. who long ruled the plots went on Bob Friedrich, the Presi- a hunger strike and threatened dents Co-op and Condo Council self-immolation to prevent his co-president and Glen Oaks Vil- ouster. lage president, said he received a On Sept. 25, two schools near letter from the DOE about a co-op Kissena Corridor Park were put meeting he was scheduling at a on lockdown as the NYPD’s Hos- local school in the middle of No- tage Negotiation Team and the vember. FDNY descended upon an unas- In the letter, Friedrich said suming green shed where Bay- the DOE told him he could not side’s San Ok Kim stood next to use public schools to hold meet- containers of gasoline clutching ings unless his group changes a lighter, according to police, to its status to nonprofit or confers protest the end of the Korean- with the DOE as to why they were American Senior Citizens Society meeting and whether or not it of Greater New York’s leadership served a public purpose. over the largely Korean green The co-op president said he space. hoped city legislation could over- Just hours earlier he had told turn the policy as he had never TimesLedger Newspapers he pre- before been barred from holding ferred death to relinquishing con- meetings in public schools. trol of the garden plots on Colden “The fact that the DOE has Street near Juniper Avenue. not defined what is or isn’t a pub- Kim was taken into custody Mikey Keller and his sister Kaleigh climb on the remaining structure of the Rockaway Beach boardwalk lic purpose and will leave that and in his absence power was near Beach 87th Street during a rally calling for rock jetties to be added to the shore. 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In particu- lar, Padavan is seeking to In a feat of legal gym- have the neighborhood of Q UEENS nastics, the commission in Broadway-Flushing put charge of redrawing the entirely into the district of W City Council districts Tues- City Councilman Dan Hal- EEKLY day took back its supposed loran (R-Whitestone). , D final version to make fur- In the commission’s EC . 9, 2012 . 9, ther changes and reunited Nov. 16 map, the neighbor- Flushing’s Mitchell-Linden hood was divided, with co-op and condo complex some of it falling into the into the same district. district of City Councilman The 15-member com- Peter Koo (D-Flushing). In mission is mandated by an interview after Padavan the City Charter to redraw voted to adopt that map, he the lines every decade in groused that he could not response to population see the final results clearly changes identified by the and was not aware that por- The City Districting Committee convenes to withdraw maps previously submitted to the City Council. Photo by Joe Anuta U.S. census. In mid-Novem- tions of Broadway-Flushing ber, it had completed its of Mitchell-Linden were in November that after the would have been desirable. the commission voted to had been split apart from task and sent a final draft reversed Tuesday by the group released its final ver- According to Hum, the formally withdraw its maps each other. of the lines to the Council. commission, which did not sion of the maps Nov. 16, commission then contacted from the Council, hold pub- Hum noted the origi- But those lines drew formally adopt the new dis- he thought the Charter re- the city Law Department to lic hearings over the next nal Mitchell-Linden deci- outrage from civics in tricts but included them in quired that the maps move see if there was any wiggle several weeks and have sion was a blatant mistake Queens and across the city maps that will be presented to the Council for review. room in the Charter allow- new maps by late January and hinted that the outcry for splitting several com- to the public for a third In other words, he believed ing them to take back the for the Council’s consider- over the redrawn Lopez munities, like Mitchell-Lin- round of public hearings. there was no time to hold maps. Hum said that pro- ation. district was so great after den, and specifically tailor- “These are the chang- another round of public cess had nothing to do with But former state Sen. the assemblyman’s sexual ing a district to include the es that the commission was hearings despite a sharp a letter he received from Frank Padavan took um- harassment scandal the home of embattled state As- asked to adopt,” said Carl public backlash. Council Speaker Christine brage with Tuesday morn- commission was compelled semblyman Vito Lopez (D- Hum, executive director for Along with the lines, Quinn (D-Manhattan) also ing’s decision, abstaining to make those changes in Brooklyn) in the Council the New York Districting the commission also sub- requesting a new version from the vote. He wondered advance of the yet-to-be seat he is eyeing next year. Commission. mitted a letter to the Coun- in response to anger over why Mitchell-Linden and scheduled hearings. Changes to the Brook- Hum had told cil indicating a further the lines. the Brooklyn changes were lyn seat and the splitting TimesLedger Newspapers round of public hearings On Tuesday morning, fixed, but the rest of the Civic Virtue statue heads to Brooklyn from Boro Hall BY STEVE MOSCO Anthony Weiner called the tion of the stone carving.
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