• JAMAICA TIMES • ASTORIA TIMES • FOREST HILLS LEDGER • LAURELTON TIMES • QUEENS VILLAGE TIMES • RIDGEWOOD LEDGER • HOWARD BEACH TIMES • RICHMOND HILL TIMES Mar. 22-28, 2013 Your Neighborhood - Your News® FREE ALSO COVERING ELMHURST, JACKSON HEIGHTS, LONG ISLAND CITY, MASPETH, MIDDLE VILLAGE, REGO PARK, SUNNYSIDE Man arrested in killing Queens’ of Flushing MS teacher Own Quintett Page 8 PagePaageg 4141 Offi cials want Darryl Adams killer gets 25 years music back at Sean Barnhill copped West Side club SEAWORLD COMES TO ASTORIA to 2012 murder of BY STEVE MOSCO South Jamaica teen Acoustics at an iconic ten- nis stadium in Forest Hills might BY RICH BOCKMANN carry sound once again. Rumors began swirling last Two weeks after friends and week that operators of the West family of Darryl Adams gathered Side Tennis Stadium were in- outside the South Jamaica Hous- specting the structure’s integrity es on the first anniversary of for the possible return of concerts his death, they packed a Queens and other events to the venerable courtroom Tuesday and watched venue. as one of his killers was sentenced Now a neighborhood preser- to 25 years in prison. vationist says those inspections “I can’t believe I watched my did happen and a return of the son Darryl run for his life and die stadium’s glory days is on the ho- on film,” Shanta Merritt said as rizon. Sean Barnhill, 20, stood by stoi- “The rumors that have been cally in court. “Sean, you stole my circulating are true,” said Mi- son Darryl from me and his fam- chael Perlman, chairman of the ily and for that I hope you rot in Rego-Forest Preservation Coun- jail for the rest of your life.” cil. “The West Side Tennis Club State Supreme Court Justice is closely exploring the idea about Dorothy Chin gave Barnhill 25 opening up the stadium to accom- A bottlenose dolphin peeks its head out of the water of the East River near Shore Boulevard in Astoria. The mammal years in prison after he pleaded modate a small quantity of clas- delighted Astoria Park goers with its appearance. Coverage on Page 36. Photo by Christina Santucci guilty in February to shooting sical and modern music concerts Darryl Adams last March. 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Continuing her work struggle to make ends meet “It has become more of several years to improve in the Rockaways — some and more meaningful since Roosevelt Avenue, City of them still reeling from Sandy,” she said. 22-28, 2013 . 22-28, 2013 AR Councilwoman Julissa Fer- Hurricane Sandy — re- This year, in addition , M reras (D-East Elmhurst) ceived Passover meals from to the special kosher food, joined with city officials the Jewish Community the Met Council included EDGER L and community leaders Council of the Rockaway a Passover dish in its give- IMES Tuesday to unveil a seven- Peninsula Monday. away because many people T point plan to make the strip “It’s important to may have lost their Seder cleaner, brighter and safer. them,” said Ilene Marcus, plates in Hurricane Sandy, “Our community de- chief of staff of the Met Marcus said. serves better and we are Council on Jewish Poverty, “It’s a very meaningful getting better,” Ferreras the umbrella organization gift at this time,” she said. said. of the JCCRP. “It’s really a The Met Council is one At the church Iglesia lifeline. Especially for peo- of the few city organiza- Aliento de Vida, at 103-24 ple who are kosher.” tions that provides kosher Roosevelt Ave. in Corona, The Passover meal meals for people in need. It Ferreras laid out her “New Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (c.) presents her “7 Points Under the 7 Train” to clean Roosevelt Avenue. giveaway is an annual is the largest distributor of Deal for Roosevelt Avenue” Small Business Services Commissioner Robert Walsh (l.-r.), Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson, Borough event held by the Met Coun- food from City Harvest and as well as thanking Deputy President Helen Marshall, Queens DOT Commissioner Delilah Hall and Sanitation Commissioner John cil, which uses the occasion the city Food Bank and also Mayor Howard Wolfson, Doherty join her. Photo by Rebecca Henely to provide special kosher raises money to buy its own city Sanitation Commis- foods that are not normally food for distribution. sioner John Doherty, Dep- $500,000 to the NYPD for tion and illegal businesses included in its other food “We serve anybody, but uty Queens Transportation cameras throughout the on the avenue. distributions. People re- if you’re kosher, you can’t Commissioner Delilah Hall district. “Roosevelt Avenue is ceiving boxes of food are get these items at a differ- and city Small Businesses She has also advocated not just about the things treated to items such as ge- ent food bank. They just Services Commissioner for a rezoning for Roosevelt that go wrong here,” she filte fish, eggs and kosher won’t have them,” Marcus Robert Walsh for their Avenue which would make said. chicken. said. “So it’s really impor- partnership in the already- the south side of the street Both Wolfson and Marcus said people Continued on Page 59 changing thoroughfare. commercial from 90th to Walsh said Ferreras got “Today I’m happy to 114th streets. While busi- them more involved in im- see many of these dreams nesses have gone in there proving Roosevelt by tak- become reality,” Ferreras for decades, the area is still ing them on tours of the said. residential. neighborhood. The councilwoman’s Finally, Ferreras “We’ve begun to make vision incorporated some mentioned the changes to JULISSA FERRERAS the kind of changes in this changes that already had Corona Plaza on Roosevelt community that all of you been put in action or will and 104th Street, which But the seven-point want to see, that Julissa be in the near-future. Fer- was converted into an open plan also included future wants to see and that she reras said she funded more space with chairs and tables projects. Ferreras said the insisted on,” Wolfson said. than double the previous where it was once a heavily 82nd Street Partnership, amount of trash pickups congested parking lot. a business improvement Reach reporter Rebecca from the city Sanitation “This used to be full district, would be expand- Henely by e-mail at rhenely@ Department, $500,000 in of moving trucks and all ing along Roosevelt Avenue cnglocal.com or by phone at capital money to the city types of things,” Ferreras to 114th Street. She is also 718-260-4564. Department of Transporta- said. “We didn’t know what planning to create a task Genya Fidlyand, 80, receives kosher food at the Jewish Community tion for more lighting and was going on there.” force to fight the prostitu- Council of the Rockaway Peninsula. 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POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the FLUSHING TIMES C/O News Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. 41-02 Bell Boulevard, Bayside, N.Y. 11361 3 CUNY Law report says Muslims hurt by surveillance TL T IMES L NYPD’s controversial anti-terror tactics leave Islamic city residents distrustful of cops, neighbors EDGER , M BY REBECCA HENELY into mosques, hookah bars things were how the conse- public school, came to her AR and Muslim student asso- quences were felt across the house a few weeks later . 22-28, 2013 A CUNY School of ciations — some outside the board regardless of income, and searched through her Law project released a re- city — to listen for radical immigration status, educa- belongings and computer, port last week saying the activity. tion level, profession, any and then offered her work NYPD’s surveillance of Shamas said reporters of that,” Shamas said.