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LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 11 Aug. 10, 2014 Your Neighborhood — Your News® Klein Farm purchased Old LIRR rail spur revisited Assemblyman Miller fl oats compromise for shuttered Rockaway Beach line by a Huang BY SARINA TRANGLE commuters, park proponents and of the A train in Ozone Park to lyn, which connects to several wary homeowners, but the com- connect subway riders with the subway lines and would offer rid- BY ALEX ROBINSON State Assemblyman Michael promise seems on track to create Atlantic Avenue Long Island Rail ers a quicker route o Manhattan Miller (D-Woodhaven) says his some controversy of its own. Road line. Linking the tracks than riding the entirely of the A Fresh Meadows’ Klein Farm plan for the abandoned Rockaway Miller proposed using a few would bring passengers to Atlan- train, according to Miller. has been sold to tenants who re- Beach LIRR spur would please blocks of the spur near the end tic Terminal in downtown Brook- The rest of the roughly 3.5- cently accepted responsibility for mile spur, running from Rego illegally cutting down trees on Park to Howard Beach, would re- the historic property. main untouched south of Myrtle Ziming Shen’s Fresh Mead- BEFORE THE PARADE PASSES BY Avenue. Miller said residents in ows Children’s Farm LLC bought southern Queens have balked the farm, at 194-15 73rd Ave., last at the idea of trains barrelling week for $5.6 million from Au- through their yards or passers-by drey Realty Corp., a firm headed using it as a trail. by Henry Huang, son of notorious North of Myrtle Avenue, he developer Thomas Huang. said neighbors have clamored Shen was hit with $1,600 in for transforming the tracks into fines by the city after his daycare a High Line-inspired park, so a center, Preschool for America, path would be fitting. which leased the farm, altered “There’s something that the driveway and cut down trees should be appealing to everyone without the necessary permits. involved,” Miller said. “South of The farm sits in the Fresh Myrtle Avenue, they want to see Meadows Special Planned Com- nothing .... Forest Hills and Kew munity Preservation District, Gardens, those are people that re- meaning any significant changes ally want a parkway, a walkway.” to the property have to be ap- Most elected officials have proved by the City Planning Com- not waded into the foray. mission. The Friends of the Queen- Outraged neighbors and sWay group wants to transform Jessica Lucero and her 4-year-old daughter Lizeth Lucero watch the New York Ecuadorian parade marching along community leaders first noticed the rail bed, which has not car- Northern Boulevard Sunday. Photo by Ken Maldonado the trees being cut down last fall ried trains since 1962, into park- Continued on Page 10 Continued on Page 10 Sikhs call dragging attack a hate crime Jamaica is sweet on JAMS would attend the two-day maica Avenue. BY ALEX ROBINSON affair, which flaunts south- A diverse array of mu- BY SARINA TRANGLE east Queens’ music, food, sicians took to the stage Tens of thousands of fashion and arts. throughout the afternoon, The turban that made a 29-year-old Sikh man shoppers streamed through A concert in Rufus including reggae duo Shaf- the target in a vicious hit-and-run in Ozone Park downtown Jamaica Satur- King Park kicked off the fick and singer Stephanie last week also helped him emerge from the attack day afternoon to take in the festivities Friday evening Courtney. The crowd also without a scratch on his head, the victim’s family Craig Crawford entertains the crowd with 18th annual JAMS festival. and music continued into danced along to a zumba said. his saxophone on Jamaica Avenue. Organizers expected the next day from a stage class and were treated to Continued on Page 9 Photo by Nat Valentine more than 185,000 people set up in the middle of Ja- Continued on Page 9 A CNG Publication • Vol. 3, No. 32 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT TIMESLEDGER.COM 2 Vision Zero proposal for Broadway on tap . 10, 2014 UG BY BILL PARRY , A Change is coming to EEKLY W Broadway. The city Department UEENS Q of Transportation started to alter the traffic patterns on a half-mile stretch of the dangerous Woodside road- way beginning last week. The agency will also bring Arterial Slow Zones, with its 25-miles-per-hour speed limits to Roosevelt Avenue in September and Metro- politan avenues in Decem- ber.. “It is good to see DOT continue to make good on its pledge to get serious about improving street safety in Queens,” state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D- Astoria) said. “For years it seemed our pleas for safer streets would fall on deaf ears, but Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero comes to Broadway in Woodside with a 25 mph speed Vision Zero has brought re- limit. Photo by Bill Parry www.divorcefast.com sults to the streets of west- ern Queens.” improvements at Northern Roosevelt Avenue between The improvements on Boulevard and 61st Street, Queens Boulevard and OBTAIN A Broadway, between North- where 8-year-old Noshat 154th Street and 5.6 miles ern Boulevard and 65th Nahian was struck and of Metropolitan Avenue be- FAST DIVORCE Street, will include con- killed while crossing the tween Onderdonk Avenue in as little as THE PROCESS Serving verting three lanes into Boulevard to get to class at and 132nd Street. four with a center medium PS 152 in December. “Slow zones are a criti- IS QUICK, 24 HOURS the to calm and better organize Councilman Jimmy cal and widely endorsed el- EASY, community traffic with wider parking Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) ement of Vision Zero,” Trot- LEGAL AND WE ARE HERE TO HELP!! for over lanes to facilitate safer bike pushed hard for the new tenberg said. “We are glad AFFORDABLE Visit us online or travel. traffic safety measures. to work closely with local 50 years Updated signaling at “The improvements communities in bringing CALL NOW! 34th Avenue will improve we are introducing to these life-saving measures pedestrian and vehicle safe- Broadway in Woodside will to corridors across the 978-443-8387 ty and the DOT will also improve safety for all mo- city.” install left-turn bays along torists, cyclists and pedes- The speed limit at all the stretch that will create trians who use this popular Slow Zones will be low- simpler, safer left turns. stretch every single day,” ered by 5 mph with new Broadway is consid- he said. “No family should distinctive signs. The DOT ered to be a high-crash ever have to suffer the trag- will update signal timing corridor, according to the edy of losing a loved one to to maintain mobility and GIVE. ADVOCATE. VOLUNTEER. DOT, where 238 injuries a traffic collision that could prevent diversions to resi- have occurred in the last have been prevented. These dential streets. The NYPD five years, 10 of them se- safety enhancements will will increase enforcement LIVE UNITED vere. There have been two decrease incidents of speed- of traffic laws in the zones. ),8>>97,50,/4110<08.048/9?>39A,>LIVEUNITED.ORG. deaths along the stretch ing and help prevent ve- “I applaud Mayor de since 2008, including the hicles from flouting traffic Blasio for not only talking Sept. 28 hit-and-run death regulations that are meant the talk, but walking the of 19-year-old Luis Bravo at to keep our neighborhoods walk when it comes to in- 58th Street and Broadway. safe.” stituting his Vision Zero The traffic safety mea- The new Arterial Slow plan,” Gianaris said. sures come after the DOT Zones were announced by reduced the speed limit on DOT Commissioner Polly Reach reporter Bill Northern Boulevard to 25 Trottenberg Friday. They Parry by e-mail at bparry@ mph. The agency also made will bring improvements cnglocal.com or by phone at significant traffic design to a 5.8-mile stretch of 718-260-4538. PanAm resistance focuses on the city 3 BY BILL PARRY families.” since a thousand people Q The Pan American, turned out for that first UEENS One of the lead orga- now known officially as protest after DHS quietly nizers of the protests at the Boulevard Family Resi- moved 21 homeless fami- W EEKLY the Pan American Hotel dence, is currently housing lies into the vacant hotel at in June and July is hitting nearly 650 residents from 79-00 Queens Blvd. A town , A the reset button. Jennifer 180 families, nearly half of hall meeting followed June UG . 10, 2014 Chu thinks the concerned them children. 30 with some of the mostly citizens of Elmhurst, and During a Community Asian protesters trading its surrounding neighbor- Board 5 hearing May 22, insults with a group of the hoods, have been unfairly city Department of Home- homeless residents, who maligned as racists. less Services Assistant were primarily black and The Elmhurst resident Commissioner Lisa Black Hispanic, outside the Elks may have a better read on called the hotel unsuitable Lodge at 82-20 Queens her neighbors than most. as a shelter. The agency’s Blvd. She is a member of Com- commissioner, Gilbert The situation became munity Board 4, the New- Taylor, confirmed that the so ugly that when a third town Civic Association and rooms have no kitchens and protest was scheduled July COMET, the Communities that three catered meals 22, DHS hired four school of Maspeth and Elmhurst a day are brought into the buses to take the children Together, the group that facility.