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Queens Weekly, Sept LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 15 Sept. 7, 2014 Your Neighborhood — Your News® Boro monitors G train back on track after fi xes record jet noise harmful to ears LIC welcomes return of Brooklyn link as Q103 art bus nears permanent run five-week shutdown. perform critical work still needed fore faced by our organization,” BY BILL PARRY The Metropolitan Trans- after the tunnel was flooded by New York City Transit President BY KELSEY DURHAM portation Authority closed down Hurricane Sandy in fall 2012. Carmen Bianco said. “However, Straphangers in Long Island the Greenpoint subway tube that “Superstorm Sandy’s devas- we rose to this challenge and are As a battle against increased City got their G train service re- runs under Newtown Creek and tating impact on our subway net- rebuilding our system better and airplane noise reverberates across stored Tuesday morning after a connects LIC with Brooklyn to work posed a challenge never be- stronger than before.” the city, some northeast Queens The full-phase closure of residents are lamenting readings the tunnel began July 25 to al- from portable noise monitors that low crews to make the $84 mil- are registering levels as high as CULTURAL EXCHANGE lion “Fix&Fortify” repairs to the 96 decibels from planes flying in damaged tubes that were flooded and out of LaGuardia Airport. with more than 3 million gal- In response to a push from lons of saltwater. The Greenpoint hundreds of community advo- tube was one of nine of the sys- cates who say the continuously tem’s 14 underwater tunnels that growing jet noise is disrupting sustained extensive damage to their quality of life, the Port Au- tracks, signals, water pumps and thority of New York & New Jersey other sensitive equipment that has begun putting noise monitors were completely submerged by in neighborhoods around the tri- the 15 feet of water. state area. Crews from every major di- The two newest devices in vision of the Department of Sub- Queens were placed on top of a ways installed more than 14,000 residential building in downtown feet of continuous welded track, Flushing and on a private home installed 128,000 feet of cable and in the northern part of Bayside, wire that had corroded from the and some residents say they have inside after the exposure to salt- gotten “interesting” readings off water and replaced integrated fi- the devices that contradict the ef- ber optic cable. forts the Port Authority says it is “The timely restoration of Priests from the Hindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing disperse offerings of fruits and flowers to making to combat the noise. G service and the infrastruc- spectators during a procession honoring the Hindu deity Ganesh. Photo by Ken Maldonado “Northeast Queens is getting ture improvements completed Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 12 Queens College’s new president Silent Disco rocks in Queens starts job on fi rst day of classes BY BILL PARRY (D-Sunnyside) are teaming Lincoln Center, further il- BY ALEX ROBINSON up with Lincoln Center to lustrates why residents and The latest dance craze bring a free night of silent visitors to Queens never Queens College welcomed a number of new is coming to Hunters Point disco dancing to the event have to cross a bridge or faces last week as students flowed into campus for South Park in Long Island space at LIC Landing by drive through a tunnel to the upcoming school year. City next Friday night. Coffeed. enjoy top quality arts and Among them was Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Silent Disco is coming to the Queens wa- Borough President Me- “This upcoming event, entertainment,” Katz said. the Flushing school’s new president, who had his terfront Sept. 12. linda Katz and City Coun- the first of its kind in Silent Disco is becom- Continued on Page 12 Photo courtesy Kevin Yatarola cilman Jimmy Van Bramer Queens in partnership with Continued on Page 13 A CNG Publication • Vol. 3, No. 36 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT TIMESLEDGER.COM QUEENS WEEKLY, SEPT. 7, 2014 2 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ PRIMARY REVIEW ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ GOVERNOR LT. GOVERNOR Randy Andrew Zephyr Kathy Timothy Q Credico Cuomo* Teachout Hochul Wu UEENS Randy Credico is Andrew Cuomo Zephyr Teachout, Kathy Hochul, Tim Wu is a comedian and served as secre- a law professor at who was a professor W political satirist tary of the Hous- Fordham Univer- known dur- at Columbia EEKLY who previously ing and Urban sity, won a court ing her tenure Law School , S ran for mayor of Development, the challenge to run in Congress and prides EPT New York City in 2013 and U.S. federal agency, and state attorney on the Democratic line for gover- as a major pro- himself as being 2014 . 7, Senate general before being elected gov- nor. She specializes in antitrust ponent for women’s rights, the developer of the net in 2010. ernor in 2011. and media law. previously served as the Erie neutrality concept. County Clerk in western New York. District 16: Parts of Flushing, Forest Hills, 10TH SENATE DISTRICT 16TH SENATE DISTRICT Elmhurst, Fresh Meadows and Bayside 14TH SENATE DISTRICT District 10: Arverne, Far Rockaway, Rosedale, District 14: Jamaica, St. Albans, Laurelton, Springfi eld Gardens, South Jamaica, South S. J. Jung Toby Stavisky* Hollis and Queens Village Ozone Park and Richmond Hill S.J. Jung is a com- Toby Ann Stavisky munity advocate who was first elected to the most recently served state Senate 14 years Munir Avery Everly Brown ago. She is the only Everly Brown is a as the president of the Munir Avery, expert on woman in the Queens Rosedale resident who MinKwon Center for elder law, is in his first delegation. has a development com- Community Action in run for elected office. If pany and voluntarily Flushing. he wins, he will become helps families District 30: Maspeth, Woodside, Parts of Astoria, the first Muslim state facing foreclosure. 30TH ASSEMBLY Long Island City, Middle Village and Sunnysidee senator in New York. Gian Jones Dmytro Fedkowskyj Margaret Markey* Leroy Comrie Jr. Gian Jones is a real es- Dmytro Fedkowskyj, Margaret Markey was Leroy Comrie, a former tate businessman from a Community Board elected to the state As- three-term city coun- Bayswater. He worked 5 member, served sembly in 1998. She cilman from southeast as an aide to U.S. Rep. on the District 24 is chairwoman of the Queens, is a special as- Gregory Meeks when he Community Education Tourism, Parks, Arts sistant to Borough Pres- was in the Assembly. Council and the city and Sports Develop- ident Melinda Katz. Panel for Educational Policy. ment Committee. James Sanders* Malcolm Smith* James Sanders was 11TH SENATE DISTRICT District 11: Bayside, Whitestone, College Point, Bay Malcolm Smith (D-Hol- elected to the City Terrace, Douglaston, Hollis Hills and part of Flushing lis) was first elected to Council in 2001 and the state Senate after Tony Avella* John Liu winning a special elec- to the state Senate in Tony Avella, a commu- John Liu became the tion in March 2000. He 2012. He is the ranking nity activist, served first Asian-American was the first black to be member of the Civil two terms in the City city councilman when Services Committee. Council before he was he was elected in 2001. elected majority leader. elected to the state He then served a term Senate in 2010. as comptroller. running mate as lieuten- ant governor. Cuomo faces two primary challengers Cuomo’s campaign did not respond to a re- BY KELSEY DURHAM she feels her work so far ning mate for lieutenant subway stations. She said quest for comment, but the has certainly paid off. governor, Tim Wu, have she feels strongly about governor’s campaign web- As the Sept. 9 pri- “It’s been transfor- worked hard to facilitate a her chances at ending up site names several of his mary approaches, three mational,” Teachout said strong campaign focused on the ballot for the gener- achievements since tak- Democratic candidates in of her campaign. “A lot of on issues New Yorkers al election in November. ing office in 2011 as selling New York’s gubernatorial people wrote us off at first, truly care about. She said Randy Credico, a co- points his campaign has race are gearing up to face but the race has been far she and Wu, the son of two median, is also challeng- focused on this year. off for a chance to become more competitive than immigrants whom Tea- ing Cuomo for a spot on Gov. Andrew Cuomo The governor’s site governor of New York. [Cuomo] expected and I chout said is New York’s the ballot. He credits him- lists economic accomplish- Zephyr Teachout, think now we’re in a posi- first Asian American self as being the most pro- New York City in 2013, lists ments such as creating challenging Gov. Andrew tion to win.” running for a statewide gressive candidate for of- his priorities as raising 440,000 jobs in the private Cuomo, has spent several Teachout, a Brooklyn elected position, have a fice and said he is ready to minimum wage, expand- sector, lowering unemploy- months visiting commu- resident who teaches at strong team of thousands change the way the people ing Medicare, lowering ment to from 8.7 to 6.7 per- nity events across the Fordham Law, refers to of volunteers who spent of New York see politics. the costs of transportation cent and bringing income state hoping to unseat the herself as a true Democrat every day talking to vot- Credico, who ran un- and legalizing marijuana.
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