• JAMAICA TIMES • ASTORIA TIMES • FOREST HILLS LEDGER • LAURELTON TIMES LARGEST AUDITED • QUEENS VILLAGE TIMES COMMUNITY • RIDGEWOOD LEDGER NEWSPAPER IN QUEENS • HOWARD BEACH TIMES • RICHMOND HILL TIMES May 24-30, 2013 Your Neighborhood - Your News® FREE ALSO COVERING ELMHURST, JACKSON HEIGHTS, LONG ISLAND CITY, MASPETH, MIDDLE VILLAGE, REGO PARK, SUNNYSIDE Doubts mount soccer stadium Cops searching will be in park Major League Soccer ended for teen’s killer months of speculation by an- nouncing that a new team called New York City Football Club will begin playing in 2015. The league had sought to in S. Jamaica build a stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, but docu- ments suggest otherwise. NYPD offers $22K for info on shooter See story on Page 4 BY PHIL CORSO AND CHRISTINA section of Rockaway and Sutphin SANTUCCI boulevards when an unknown gunman pumped at least nine Police in South Jamaica put rounds into it from the outside, out a $22,000 bounty on the sus- cops said. The girl, nicknamed pect wanted for shooting and kill- “Asia,” had just left a nearby ing a 14-year-old girl on a city bus Sweet 16 party with friends when 5C723B= last weekend with hopes to bring she boarded the bus just six blocks justice to a wounded community. away from her home. 8K`d\jC\[^\iJg\Z`XcJ\Zk`feDXp)+$*'#)'(* D’aja Robinson, 14, was shot The shooter fled into nearby Shadia Sands (l.), D’aja Robinson’s mother, hugs her own mother, Rini in the head around 8:30 p.m. Sat- Baisley Pond Park and has re- See Special Section Sands. See related story on Page 6. Photo by Christina Santucci urday as she sat near the back of mained at large, but investigators PAGE 33 an idling Q6 bus near the inter- Continued on Page 50 A CNG Publication Vol. 1 No. 20 64 total pages CATS For MAYOR A New Yorker for all New Yorkers cats2013.com Paid for by Catsimatidis 2013 2 TL Utility aids storm recovery Airport workers plan COM . National Grid pledges cash as its volunteers assist Breezy Point to crash JFK party TIMESLEDGER BY RICH BOCKMANN Paul Sonn, legal co-direc- BY STEVE MOSCO tor of the National Employ- Delta Airlines and ment Law Project, said at a More than six months the Port Authority plan to labor rally in Queens Vil- after Hurricane Sandy, the cut the ribbon Friday on lage last week. 24-30, 2013 2013 24-30, small community of Breezy a $1.2 billion expansion to According to a New AY Point is still fighting to re- Kennedy Airport’s Termi- York University survey, , M build and return a sense of nal 4, but as the airport about a quarter of the normalcy to everyday life. continues to grow, those 67,000 employees at JFK, EDGER L Residents of the sea- who work at JFK and live LaGuardia and Newark IMES T side town got many helping in the neighborhoods sur- airports work in service hands last week as close rounding it said they are positions such as secu- to 70 National Grid volun- not sharing in the wealth rity, baggage handler and teers joined with Habitat and they are planning to cabin cleaner, and the vast for Humanity to assist in make their voices heard majority of them are con- the massive cleanup effort. on the big day. tracted workers. The groups worked togeth- For several months Sonn said that 20 to 30 er gutting houses, painting now, security workers at years ago airport employ- and installing floors, sheet- Global Elite and Air Serv, ees had better jobs work- rock and insulation. two companies contracted ing directly for the air- But this was no ordi- Volunteers from Habitat for Humanity return from rebuilding duties to loud appreciation. by airlines at JFK, have lines, but a trend toward nary cleanup effort. Na- Photo by Steve Mosco been trying to unionize, low bidding contracts that tional Grid President Ken citing low wages and poor started with industry de- Daly stood in front of the Point Lumber, which needs of Westchester County is from recycled blue jeans. benefits. regulation and accelerated throngs of volunteers and to accelerate its recovery so helping the community re- “It has all of the bene- “The median wages by the recession has left residents at Christ Commu- it can continue to help the turn from the brink. James fits of insulation, with none for these service jobs at airport jobs on par with nity Church, at 60 W. Mar- town rebuild. Killoran, executive direc- of the dangers,” said Kil- Kennedy and the other those at Walmart. ket St., and announced the Kathy Dady, a 24-year tor of the organization, has loran, referring to carcino- Port Authority airports Nationwide, he said, power supplier has given Breezy Point resident and been on the ground with gens found in the standard are between $8 and $9 an 60 percent of job growth grants to three local busi- operator of Breezy Point his crew since the damage pink insulation. “Habitat hour .... those are really during the recession has nesses to expedite the re- Lumber on West Market from the October super- for Humanity was green be- fast-food wages, and these been for jobs paying $12 an building process. Street, said her lumberyard storm was first being real- fore green was in vogue.” are again for security hour. “These grants will opened three weeks after ized. State Assemblyman guards and other people “It’s really worse in give businesses a boost and the superstorm hit. “Some people are just Phil Goldfeder (D-Ozone caring for this vital trans- New York because New help the locals get up and Dady said the yard getting back into their Park) and City Councilman portation infrastructure,” Continued on Page 50 running,” said Daly, add- was devastated — she lost houses. And some houses Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) ing that National Grid has inventory, trucks and com- are still being gutted,” said were also on hand to thank replaced 14 miles’ worth of puters — but Dady contin- Killoran. “But disaster the volunteers and pledge gas lines in Breezy Point. ued to take orders and work doesn’t take a vacation and their continued support “But this is not the end of through the crisis because neither do we.” to all the residents of the our work here. This is our she knew the lumberyard Killoran said the com- proud peninsula neighbor- extended family and we will would be instrumental in munity has a chance to hood. see this effort through.” rebuilding the community. rebuild better than it was “Volunteers know that Daly announced Na- “Everyone relies on before, taking into account when they are rebuilding tional Grid will provide the lumberyard,” she said. damage prevention from fu- homes and businesses, they $125,000 in grants to Ken- “We’ll be supplying lumber ture storms and integrating are also rebuilding lives,” nedy’s Restaurant and for the houses that were green building methods. said Ulrich. “It’s people Bayhouse, two restaurants burnt. It will be a different Along with his team of helping people and that is in the community in need kind of normal, but Breezy volunteers, Killoran has al- what makes this commu- State Sen. James Sanders says contract workers at JFK should be of help opening in time for Point will be back.” ready begun to build better, nity so special.” paid higher wages as the airport expands with the help of tax-free the summer, and Breezy Habitat for Humanity installing insulation made bonds. 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He said the space opens on Flag Day, O’Neill 2013 24-30, see it now: a packed dining cery store, a barbershop, a will hold around 300 to 350 expects another son-in-law room, a raucous bar and liquor store, a cleaners, a patrons and will be avail- to be there: former New a Maspeth neighborhood bakery, a delicatessen. able for every party imag- York Ranger and hockey thrilled to have its favorite Throughout the years, inable.