Volume 65, No. 156 Monday, November 25, 2019 50¢ QUEENS Katz makes TODAY November 25, 2019 moves Queens DA-elect unveils THE QUEENS COLLEGE CHORAL 31-member transition team Society will perform the cantata Carmina By David Brand Burana at its 79th annual Winter Concert Queens Daily Eagle on Dec. 14, at 8 p.m., in Colden Auditorium. Queens District Attorney-elect Melinda Based on medieval texts, the cantata is one Katz has unveiled her 31-member transition of the most popular choral works of all time, team as she prepares to take over as the bor- celebrating the joys, sorrows and passions of ough’s top prosecutor. Katz will lead an of- life. fice that has been run by the same core group  of executive staff members for nearly three decades. THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPOR- Retired Judge Randall Eng and defense at- tation gave out traffic tickets to participants to torney Christopher Renfroe will co-chair the a 9/11 memorial parade, according to Queens team. Deputy Borough President Sharon Lee Patch. The Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Queens DA-elect Melinda Katz named her 31-member transition team on Friday. Continued on page 15 Corps, who hosts the parade, told Patch that Photo via the borough president’s office the DOT is supposed to turn off all traffic and red light cameras during parades, but in this instance, the agency did not. DOT said they would review the violations.  NYC pols to Albany: Legalize It THE E QUE NS COUNCIL ON THE ARTS By Victoria Merlino has announced its 2019-2020 cohort of Queens Daily Eagle Art Commissioners which will represent After failing to fully legalize marijuana in the Maspeth, Ridgewood and Flushing as last state legislative session, advocates and law- they select projects that resonate with makers are reigniting the effort to remove weed the neighborhoods. The commissioners from the penal code and end the deep racial dis- will award four $10,000 commissions to parities in marijuana arrests. choreographers, composers and playwrights, “There’s no reason except for pure political or $40,000 total by the end of the year. will that this is not done,” said Public Advocate Jumaane Williams on the steps of City Hall on  Thursday. “THC E VOI ES OF THE COMMUNITY Williams was surrounded by legalization should be in the center of the process when it advocates who called on the state legislature comes to integrating the arts into…the larger to pass the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation American historical narrative and cultural Act, which would legalize recreational marijua- landscape,” said Flushing Art Commissioner na usage for New Yorkers over the age of 21. The bill faced opposition from senators representing Ya Yun Teng. “QCA’s program provides an Long Island, Brooklyn and Westchester, as well opportunity to return art-making ownership as Queens State Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky during to the stakeholders of the Queens community.” the last session.  The act never made it to a floor vote, though a “decriminalization” bill was passed to reduce S EVEraL SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS penalties for teeny possession and to expunge entrepreneurs, Business Improvement some low-level marijuana convictions in cer- Districts and community leaders from tain circumstances. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has throughout Queens gathered at the Bulova previously expressed his support for legalizing Corporate Center in Jackson Heights on Nov. marijuana. 20 as the Queens Chamber of Commerce State Sen. Liz Krueger, who sponsored the hosted Bronx Councilmember Mark Gjonaj marijuana legalization bill, underscored the for a Small Business Town Hall. importance of the measure for communities of  color who have felt the drastically disproportion- ate impact of marijuana-related arrests. As the GJ ONAJ IS THE CHAIR OF THE CITY Eagle reported in August, black and Latinx New Council’s Committee on Small Business. Yorkers accounted for nearly every low-level This town hall was part of Council Member marijuana arrest in the first half of the year. Queens Councilmember Antonio Reynoso participated in a rally to legalize marijuana Continued on page 12 Continued on page 2 at City Hall on Nov. 21. Eagle photo by Victoria Merlino

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2 • Queens Daily Eagle • Monday, November 25, 2019 Can the ‘Uber of energy’ prevent Opinion: We can no longer another citywide blackout? accept traffic deaths By Michael Stahl BQ Daily Eagle By Timothy Cardinal Dolan, as their members have paid On a Sunday evening during the summer’s first Rev. A.R. Bernard and the ultimate price during major heatwave last July, Con Edison cut off pow- Rabbi Joseph Potasnik this epidemic, from burying er to more than 30,000 southeast Brooklyn resi- Today, more than 3,000 loved ones, to losing limbs, dents. The company, citing a new regional power men, women and children cognitive function and in usage record set earlier that day, called the action a will likely be killed in a traf- many cases, their homes “pre-emptive move” that was set in motion to fic crash around the globe. and financial means. They “protect the integrity of the energy system.” That is why we, as reli- have most certainly lost their Many in the area were upset about the utili- gious leaders here in New sense of safety, yet they have ty-induced blackout, which for some stretched into York, joined together with garnered the strength and vi- a second day, and questioned why their specific the United Nations, the World sion to transform their pain neighborhood was targeted. The incident also led Health Organization, Fami- and grief into action, fighting to a hearing where Con Edison President Timothy lies for Safe Streets and faith each day to prevent anyone Cawley was forced to defend the company at the else from experiencing simi- behest of state legislators. Adrienne Smith, executive director of the leaders around the world in commemorating World Day lar devastation. They can’t — One emerging tech company in Brooklyn be- Brooklyn Microgrid. Photo by Brooklyn Microgrid of Remembrance for Road and shouldn’t have to — do it lieves it can help keep such circumstances from alone. Timothy Cardinal Dolan. If able to launch its program, the Brooklyn Mi- Traffic Victims earlier this unfolding, while generating new income streams As leaders of faith, we The Associated Press for environmentally-conscious homeowners and crogrid would get a cut of any transaction between month. Together, we mourn- not only honor the memory making the city’s energy supply greener. A pivotal the buyers and sellers plugged into the Pando app. ed the millions killed and of those who’ve perished meeting with state officials held on Friday could So would Con Edison, which, according to Smith, injured in crashes each year pave the way. would not suffer any revenue hit from the partner- and prayed for safer streets, and offer healing to those Described by Executive Director Adrienne ship. If anything, she said, the company stands to so that we might help to end who’ve been injured (and to Smith as “the Uber version of energy,” the Brook- benefit financially. Because the Brooklyn Micro- the horrific pain and suffer- the many caregivers too), but lyn Microgrid has built app-based technology to grid would be using Con Edison infrastructure to ing traffic accidents cause in encourage our community create a local, digital marketplace for solar power. move the power from the solar power producers to our city and communities. members to do what we can On one side of a transaction: homeowners with so- their neighboring consumers, the Brooklyn Micro- This is not just a New York as individuals each day to lar panels, who produce extra energy they do not grid would award Con Edison a percentage of the problem, however. Death and make our streets safer, and utilize. On the other side: their neighbors. fee agreed upon between the two parties. In a simi- injuries due to traffic crashes call on our city, state and These “prosumers” (those with solar panels, lar program established in Vermont last week, LO3 is a global problem that hurts federal elected officials to producing the electricity) would be able to sell the Energy has arranged a 5 percent transaction fee for individuals and families from demonstrate bold leadership excess power to the highest-bidding consumers in local energy provider Green Mountain Power. every religion, race, ethnicity on this issue. “The added benefit is that now their grid will their area via the Brooklyn Microgrid’s “Pando” and economic status. In the We hear a lot these days become more resilient, because now we’re incen- app. Con Edison would also be plugged into Pan- U.S., it is a national epidemic about repairing our “infra- tivizing more people to put solar panels on their do, channeling the purchased power through its and a public health crisis, as structure,” surely a necessary Rev. A. R. Bernard. roofs,” Smith said of Con Edison in the possible Photo by Kevin Pratt for Eric Gonza- infrastructure. lethal as gun violence or opi- undertaking. At the same Smith says the Brooklyn Microgrid provides New York scenario. “That’s less energy that [resi- lez for District Attorney oid addiction. Nearly 40,000 time, we hope equal attention a green solution to Con Edison’s grid problems, dents are] drawing from Con Edison’s grid.” Americans are killed every will be paid to ending the which were on display over the summer and Smith, who took over as executive director for year — the equivalent of a epidemic of traffic violence. during several other blackouts in recent memory. the Brooklyn Microgrid in July, told the Eagle that We shouldn’t simply accept the company has had limited engagement with regional plane crashing every The virtual marketplace model lightens the load the deaths of 100 people each Con Edison up until this point. Without regulatory single day — and millions on the utility’s infrastructure, while providing res- day in our country. Human idents with the opportunity to buy renewable ener- approval there wasn’t much need for it, she said. more are injured each year. As far as she could tell, Con Edison had histori- The numbers for New York life is precious, and its pro- gy at a lower rate than what Con Edison charges tection should be our top pri- for its power, according to Smith. The revenue that cally shown some openness to a partnership, but, City alone are staggering: ority. solar-panel investors generate from sales could be more recently, interest may have cooled. Every two hours, someone We offer our prayers, not used to pay off installation and maintenance costs “I think it’s just a matter of time, honestly,” she is killed or seriously injured for the machinery. said. “When you have a company that’s operated in a crash. A traffic crash can just for those who suffer, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in April the for over 100 years, they may see something as a become a divider for so many also for our political lead- state’s third annual solicitation for large-scale solution, but there’s still a lot of internal dialogue people, of a life before and a ers to have the wisdom and renewable energy projects, which he called in a and discussions that need to occur before an action much diminished life after. courage to guide our country can take place.” towards a vision of safety, Rabbi Joseph Potasnik. statement “a critical part of the state’s bold plan to We all know someone whose Photo courtesy of meet the unprecedented challenges posed by cli- Con Edison representative Allan Drury wrote life has been changed by a to implement solutions that Congregation Mount Sinai mate change.” in an email to the Eagle that the company “encour- crash: mothers and fathers, have worked elsewhere in Smith and some of her Brooklyn Microgrid age[s] our customers to consider solar energy.” He sons and daughters, sisters the world, and to do all they Center in Brooklyn. Rabbi team members pitched their business model on noted that Con Edison Inc., the utility’s parent and brothers, friends, neigh- can to make sure no one else Joseph Potasnik is executive Friday to some of Cuomo’s top officials. company, is “the second largest solar provider in bors, co-workers. is killed or injured in this vice president of the New Only state-approved energy providers can sell North America” and is committed “to a cleaner en- It is fundamentally im- senseless way. York Board of Rabbis. The ergy future,” as evidenced by its carbon-footprint electricity in New York, but the Brooklyn Microg- portant that, as a community, Timothy Cardinal Dolan is three are chair, president and reduction of 49 percent over the past 14 years. rid is seeking a temporary lift of such restrictions. we be united against traffic archbishop of New York. Rev. vice president respectively of (According to a 2017 New York Times article, The exemption, called a “regulatory sandbox,” violence. All of us — wheth- A.R. Bernard is senior pas- the Commission of Religious would allow the company to launch a pilot pro- less than a quarter of the electricity produced in er Christian, Jewish, Muslim, tor of the Christian Cultural Leaders. gram in Park Slope, Borough Park and Bay Ridge, New York State, across all providers, including Buddhist, Hindu, any faith or with hopes that its success would open the door for Con Edison, comes from renewable sources. Con permanent approval and, eventually, a broadening Edison’s website only vaguely mentions its reli- none at all — have the right SEEKING BIDS: to move around on livable, of their services across the city. ance on nonrenewable energy sources, saying the A nonprofit organization in Brooklyn is seeking sealed bids for “Everything’s ready to go right now,” Smith electricity the company provides comes “from all safe streets. It is up to all of us to be part of the solution. sales and installation of security related enhancements. The proj- told the Eagle. “It’s just these archaic rules and over New York, whether it’s from solar, wind, or ect includes: Installation of IP Cameras Selection Criteria will be Families for Safe Streets is regulations, which served their purpose during generating stations.”) based on knowledge of surveillance and security, adherence to their time, but climate change has occurred, tech- On the topic of the Brooklyn Microgrid, Drury one group helping to fight the work schedule, prior experience, references, and cost. Specifica- nology has developed, and we are in a position said Con Edison feels the company should operate rising tide of traffic crashes, tions and bid requirements can be obtained by contacting us at where we can have locally generated solar energy under the same rules as other competitive, state-ap- [email protected] produced and sold right here in Brooklyn.” proved energy suppliers, some of which also use BANKRUPTCY All interested firms will be required to sign forMaltz the proposal 60060 Smith told the Eagle about one of the Brooklyn Con Edison infrastructure to deliver energy. documents and provide primary contact, telephone,Brooklyn fax, and Eagle Microgrid’s prospective energy producers, who, When Con Edison acquires energy, including email address. 1.52” x 3” when he has excess power generated from his solar renewable energy, Drury wrote, “We employ a va- Bid will be accepted until end of business day on11.20.19 November 28, riety of buying strategies to get the best price for panels, is mandated to sell it to Con Edison for 4 AUCTIONUSBC EDNY • Re: Stephanie Sarria a/k/a Stephanie Santangelo a/k/a Stephanie Riddle • Case #19-42830 (NHL) 2019 work is to commence by: December 1, 2019 and completed cents per kilowatt hour — a common measurement the customer. We then pass that energy along to the December 12th • Brooklyn by January 1, 2019. of energy used. When his solar panels don’t pro- customer at cost. We don’t make OR lose money duce enough energy to power his brownstone and on the commodity. When the price of the energy 3,100+ SQ FT MULTI-FAM BLDG he has to tap into the Con Edison grid, he’s paying goes up, the end customer pays more. When it the utility approximately 20 cents per kilowatt hour. goes down, the end customer benefits.” PROJECT ACCOUNTANT, “If there were a free marketplace, that prosumer But the Brooklyn Microgrid doesn’t see itself would be able to sell his energy at a much higher as a commodity provider like those Con Edison BROOKLYN, NY. rate than 4 cents a kilowatt hour,” Smith said. has dealt with before. The company wouldn’t gen- The Brooklyn Microgrid’s parent company, erate any energy; the people would. LO3 Energy, recently released a report after ana- Should the regulatory sandbox be approved and Associate Deg. + 6ms. exp lyzing data from a similar setup in Australia. “The the Brooklyn Microgrid open for business, Smith results of the project showed users saved 6-12 says that about 40 producers and 200 consumers req. Eemail res to: percent on their energy bills,” a press release said, will be ready to make deals. A Change.org petition “while prosumers who bought energy but also for the regulatory sandbox netted more than 500 536 Willoughby Ave, Bed-Stuy [email protected], generated and sold it with their own private solar signatures. Smith presented the petition at the meet- RICH B. MALTZ, DCA #1240836, NY BROKER • DAVE CONSTANTINO DCA #1424944 panels, could generate 18-37 percent more reve- ing Friday, with some eager Brooklynite “prosum- 516.349.7022 • www.MaltzAuctions.com Tri State Dismantling Corp. nue from their energy sales.” ers” also attending in a show of support. AUCTIONS...Your Liquidity Solution® Monday, November 25, 2019 • Brooklyn Daily Eagle • 3 DAILY EAGLE eview & Comment People in the News RR  For a little over a year, NYPD officers HARLEY GRECO and TYLER BARBOUR have been partners, patrolling the streets of the 19th Precinct side by side. But it was only this month that Laurels they discovered they’re more than partners, they’re family. Af- ter Greco’s grandmother took a DNA test and entered the results into an online database, she discovered several family members she was previously unaware of, and through Facebook realized that some of her new relatives also had a family member work- &Darts ing at the same stationhouse as her grandson. After some inves- tigating, Greco pieced together that he and Barbour’s great, great grandmothers are sisters, making the cops distant cousins. “We’ve always been close since the beginning, always had each other’s backs and everything, so it really doesn’t change much,” Greco told NY1. 

LAUREL to the NEW YORK CITY HEALTH DEPART- MENT, which announced Friday that new HIV diagnoses reached a historic low last year. According to an annual HIV Sur- Restaurateur Jenny Kwak. Photo via koreanamericanhistory.org veillance Report, 1,917 New Yorkers were newly diagnosed with HIV in 2018, down 11 percent from the 2,157 new diagnoses in In an airy spot on the corner of Carroll Street and Fifth Ave- 2017 and down 67 percent since 2001, when reporting began. nue, chef JENNY KWAK is dishing up a fun mix of traditional Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island saw the greatest declines Korean fare and experimental fusion. Her Park Slope hangout, in new diagnoses from 2017 to 2018. Health Commissioner Dr. Haenyo, named for the famously independent female divers of Oxiris Barbot attributed the decline to the NYC Ending the Ep- the Korean island Jeju, serves bibimbap, broiled oysters with idemic Plan, which launched in 2015 and invests $23 million a seaweed butter and pots of simmering shellfish in a spicy, gar- year in STI testing, preventative drugs like PEP and PrEP, HIV licky bouillabaisse. Now Eater is recognizing Kwak’s trailblaz- treatment and public campaigns to educate about and destigma- ing cuisine by nominating Haenyo for the 2019 Best Restaurant of the Year Award, the only Brooklyn restaurant to make the tize the disease. “We take a data-driven, sex-positive approach to Borough historian Ron Schweiger. Eagle photo by Lore Croghan HIV prevention that is firmly grounded in equity — and we are list. Kwak got her start as one half of the mother-daughter team proving that it works,” Bardot said in a statement. behind Dok Suni, an East Village Korean spot that she opened in Filmmakers ROB MARTIN and JAY CUSATO are hoping to  the 1990s with her mom, MYUNG JA KWAK, and one of the make a documentary paying tribute to Farrell’s, a Windsor Terrace DART to the NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF city’s first Korean eateries outside of Koreatown. Since those watering hole on the southwest corner of Prospect Park that’s been CORRECTIONS, for using a faulty drug test that produced false days, Kwak’s culinary ventures have grown increasingly cre- part of the neighborhood’s fabric for 86 years. Martin and Cusato, positives, causing prisoners to endure solitary confinement, ex- ative, but she still treats Korean staples with special reverence. of Park Slope Films, described Windsor Terrace as “a traditionally tended prison stays and other unfair punishment. According to “For me, staying true or preserving Korean flavors is the main working class neighborhood, where generations of residents have documents obtained by WNYC/Gothamist, correction officials goal,” Kwak told Eater. followed the same arc, being born in Methodist Hospital and end- believe that approximately 2,000 prisoners were tested with  ing up in Greenwood Cemetery, along the way, making their stop the flawed kits manufactured by Thermo Fisher Scientific. The The congregation at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights right in the middle, in Farrell’s,” on the project’s fundraiser page, DOCCS has said it has suspended use of the test and is work- has been transforming the church into a temporary homeless which has a goal of raising $24,000. “Very few commercial estab- ing to expunge records and reverse unwarranted punitive mea- shelter for one month out of the year since the 1980s. This fall, lishments last for more than 40, 50, 60 years in one place,” said sures where possible. But much of the harm is irreversible. One under the direction of the church’s senior minister, REV. DR. Brooklyn Borough Historian RON SCHWEIGER in a 90-second falsely accused prisoner who has since been released, Nadezda BRETT YOUNGER, volunteers served a group of 10 home- promo for the project, “But Windsor Terrace has Farrell’s Bar.” Steele-Warrick, told Gothamist that inaccurate results from one of less men a hot meal each evening before the men bedded down  the tests caused her to be kept in isolation for 11 days and to be de- in the church for the night. The project is part of the “Respite nied family visits. “Once I realized I was not going to see my fami- Bed Program,” which has 10 other member churches across the ly it was absolutely devastating news for me,” Steele-Warrick said. city and is organized by the nonprofit CAMBA. “I think about  some of the financial ups and downs that I’ve had, and I think DART to NATIONAL GRID, the utility company with a about, I could be here in the same situation,” volunteer NANCY monopoly in the New York City area that is refusing to hook TROTT told NY1. “They’re persisting, they’re working hard, up new gas customers unless the state approves the Williams and if we can make their lives a little more comfortable on a pipeline, which would carry fracked gas beneath New York Har- night-by-night basis, that’s what inspires me.” bor. Environmentalists have raised concerns that digging up the seabed would unleash heavy metals and other toxins and create the potential for spills. The state says National Grid has failed to demonstrate that the pipeline is crucial to meeting the region’s energy demands. Still, the company has persisted in freezing out new customers, many of whom are without heat as the standoff ensues. Gov. Cuomo has said he will revoke the utility’s license to operate in southern New York if the company does not restore service to customers this month.  DART to the MTA, for not repairing the solar panels atop the Stillwell Terminal since they were damaged during Super- storm Sandy in 2012. The panels, for which the agency declined to provide an exact price tag, were part of a $310 million station rehabilitation project that began in 2001, but they were only op- erational for seven years. During the storm, water knocked out electrical equipment on the street level, taking the panels offline, though the panels themselves were essentially undamaged. Ac- Choreographer Leslie Cuyjet. Photo via acanarytorsi.org cording to estimates by the New York Post, the roof was expected to reduce carbon emissions by 17,000 tons over 40 years. Instead it’s a shiny, inert roof-topper and a reminder that the agency fails Choreographer LESLIE CUYJET is presenting “Roam” as again and again to maintain the taxpayer-funded infrastructure it part of her VW Dome residency at MoMA PS1 in Long Island presides over. City. The Brooklyn-based collaborative artist has performed at La MaMa, Gibney Dance, Center for Performance Research and Daily Eagle of Brooklyn and Queens welcomes opinions, elsewhere, and has worked with dance stars like KIM BRANDT, JANE COMFORT, DAVID GORDON and more. As part of the both pro and con, on all subjects affecting our daily lives. museum’s VW Sunday Sessions, organized by Assistant Curators We also welcome responses to the published articles and TAJA CHEEK and ALEX SLOANE and produced by ALEX- opinions, which should be sent to [email protected] ANDRA ROSENBERG with CHRIS MASULLO, Cuyet will (Brooklyn) and [email protected] (Queens). Rev. Dr. Brett Younger, senior minister at Plymouth perform “Roam” at the museum on select dates. Visit moma.org Church. Photo via plymouthchurch.org for tickets and info.

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TION AND FINANCE NEW YORK STATE PLAINTIFF, PARTIES INTENDED BE- OF THE NEW YORK STATE DEPART- TATION IS SERVED UPON YOU AS RE- OF THIS ACTION. YOU ARE ALSO RE- VEDWATTIE SEWNARINE, ET AL., DE- ATTORNEY GENERAL JOSEPH LEVIN ING PERSONS HAVING AN INTEREST ROBERT A. SIMULCIK EXECUTOR MENT OF TAXATION, IF ANY, SHOULD QUIRED BY LAW. YOU ARE NOT RE- QUIRED TO FILE A COPY OF YOUR AN- FENDANT(S) PURSUANT TO A JUDG- NOT BE FIXED AND DETERMINED OR QUIRED TO APPEAR. IF YOU FAIL TO SWER, IF ANY, IN THE OFFICE OF THE MENT OF FORECLOSURE AND SALE IN THE PREMISES, AND TENANTS OR OF THE ESTATE OF ANNE SIMULCIK OCCUPANTS IN POSSESSION, DEFEN- THE SPOUSE, IF ANY, AND ANY AND IF NOT SO FIXED AND DETERMINED, APPEAR IT WILL BE ASSUMED THAT REGISTER OF THIS COURT. WITNESS, DULY ENTERED ON OCTOBER 29, DANTS. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DE- ALL UNKNOWN DISTRIBUTEES AND DEEMED REJECTED; (E) WHY THE YOU DO NOT OBJECT TO THE RELIEF HON. ARTHUR C. RYLEY, FIRST JUS- 2019, I, THE UNDERSIGNED REFER- FENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUM- CREDITORS OF RICHARD BELLAK, CLAIM OF THE NEW YORK CITY HU- REQUESTED. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO TICE OF THIS COURT, DATE: NOVEM- EE WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION AT DECEASED, WHOSE WHEREABOUTS MAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION, HAVE AN ATTORNEY APPEAR FOR BER 8, 2019. THE QUEENS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, MONED TO ANSWER THE COMPLAINT #175343 ARE UNKNOWN AND IF ANY OF THE IF ANY, SHOULD NOT BE FIXED AND YOU, AND YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY COURTROOM 25, 88-11 SUTPHIN IN THIS ACTION AND TO SERVE A AFORESAID PERSONS BE DEAD, TO DETERMINED, OR IF NOT SO FIXED MAY REQUEST A COPY OF THE FULL BLVD, QUEENS, NY ON DECEMBER 20, COPY OF YOUR ANSWER, OR IF THE AND DETERMINED, DEEMED REJECT- ACCOUNT FROM THE PETITIONER LIQUOR LICENSE COMPLAINT IS NOT SERVED WITH THEIR HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN 2019 AT 10:30 A.M., PREMISES KNOWN ED; (F) WHY THE PETITIONER SHOULD OR PETITIONER’S ATTORNEY. 22NY- AND DISTRIBUTEES WHOSE NAMES ON-PREMISE LICENSE, #TBA HAS AS 124-12 101ST AVENUE, RICHMOND THIS SUMMONS, TO SERVE A NO- NOT BE PERMITTED TO DISTRIBUTE CRR SEC. 207.7 PROOF OF SERVICE OF AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UN- BEEN APPLIED FOR BY D.S.C HOS- HILL, NY. ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, TICE OF APPEARANCE ON THE PLAIN- THE NET ESTATE TO THE DECEDENT’S PROCESS SHALL BE FILED ON OR BE- KNOWN AND IF THE PERSONS DIED PITALITY MANAGEMENT LLC D/B/A PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE TIFF’S ATTORNEY, WITHIN TWEN- DISTRIBUTEE(S), AS NOW KNOWN OR FORE THE SECOND DAY PRECEDING SUBSEQUENT TO THE DECEDENT KENDRA’S PLACE TO SELL BEER, WINE, BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS TY (20) DAYS AFTER THE SERVICE OF HEREAFTER DETERMINED, AS THEIR THE RETURN DATE. SUMMARY PRIN- HEREIN, TO THEIR EXECUTORS, AD- CIDER AND LIQUOR AT RETAIL IN THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING THIS SUMMONS, EXCLUSIVE OF THE INTERESTS MAY APPEAR, AND TO DE- CIPAL ACCOUNT CHARGES: SCHED- MINISTRATORS, LEGATEES, DEVISEES, AN ON PREMISES ESTABLISHMENT AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF DAY OF SERVICE, OR WITHIN THIR- POSIT ANY AMOUNT NOT SO DIS- ULE A PRINCIPAL RECEIVED ASSIGNEES AND SUCCESSORS IN IN- WITH ONE ADDITIONAL BAR. FOR ON QUEENS, COUNTY OF QUEENS, STATE TY (30) DAYS AFTER COMPLETION OF TEREST WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES TRIBUTED WITH THE COMMISSION- 1,159,215.31 SCHEDULE A-1 RE- OF NEW YORK, BLOCK 9491 AND LOT ALIZED INCREASES IN PRINCIPAL PREMISES CONSUMPTION UNDER SERVICE WHERE SERVICE IS MADE IN OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN AND ER OF FINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEW 6. PREMISES WILL BE SOLD SUBJECT 36,598.23 SCHEDULE A-2 THE ABC LAW AT 1744 NOSTRAND AV- ANY OTHER MANNER THAN BY PER- TO ALL OTHER HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT YORK TO BE HELD FOR THE BENE- TO PROVISIONS OF FILED JUDGMENT INCOME COLLECTED 2,184.51 TOTAL ENUE BROOKLYN NY 11226. SONAL DELIVERY WITHIN THE STATE. OF KIN AND DISTRIBUTEES OF RICH- FIT OF DECEDENT’S UNKNOWN DIS- #175534 INDEX # 708055/2017. KERRY KAT- CHARGES $1,197,998.05 $1,197,998.05 IN CASE OF YOUR FAILURE TO AP- ARD BELLAK, THE DECEDENT HERE- TRIBUTEES OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SORHIS, ESQ., REFEREE LAW OFFICES CREDITS: SCHEDULE B REALIZED DE- PEAR OR ANSWER, JUDGMENT WILL IN, WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF ANY DISTRIBUTEES OF THE DECE- LIQUOR LICENSE OF ALAN J. WAINTRAUB PLLC, 125-10 CREASES IN PRINCIPAL 6,649.67 BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU BY DEFAULT RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN AND DENT WHO ARE UNDER DISABILI- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LI- QUEENS BOULEVARD, SUITE 311, KEW SCHEDULE C FUNERAL AND AD- FOR THE RELIEF DEMANDED IN THE CANNOT AFTER DUE DILIGENCE BE TY FOR WHOM NO GUARDIAN OF CENSE, # TBA FOR LIQUOR HAS BEEN GARDENS, NEW YORK 11415, ATTOR- MINISTRATION EXPENSES COMPLAINT. KINGS COUNTY IS DES- ASCERTAINED, A PETITION AND AN THE PROPERTY HAS BEEN APPOINT- APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED NEYS FOR PLAINTIFF ACCOUNT HAVING BEEN DULY FILED ED; (G) WHY PROCESS SHOULD NOT 7,194.25 SCHEDULE D CREDITOR’S TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE & BEER AT A #175345 IGNATED AS THE PLACE OF TRIAL, BY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR KINGS BE ISSUED TO ALL NECESSARY PAR- CLAIMS ACTUALLY PAID 0.00 SCHED- CATERING ESTABLISHMENT UNDER BEING THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE COUNTY, WHO IS LOCATED AT 360 AD- TIES WHO HAVE NOT APPEARED TO ULE E DISTRIBUTIONS OF PRINCI- THE ABC LAW AT HERITAGE ARISTO- PAWNBROKER SUBJECT OF THE ACTION IS SITUAT- AMS STREET ROOM 144, BROOKLYN, SHOW CAUSE WHY THE RELIEF RE- PAL 0.00 TOTAL CREDITS $13,843.92 CRAT, INC. DBA HERITAGE ARISTO- AUCTION SALES ED. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF NEW YORK 11201. YOU ARE HEREBY QUESTED SHOULD NOT BE GRANTED; $13,843.92 CHARGES MINUS CREDITS CRAT AT 198 RANDOLPH ST STORE B S. PRICE, AUCTIONEER OF THE JEW- LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT CITED TO SHOW CAUSE BEFORE THE AND THAT AN ORDER BE GRANTED $1,184,154.13 PRINCIPAL BALANCE BROOKLYN, NY 11237 FOR ON PREM- ELRY AUCTION MARKET OF AMERI- RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND SURROGATE’S COURT, KINGS COUN- DIRECTING THE SERVICE OF PRO- ON HAND: SCHEDULE G PRINCIPAL ISES CONSUMPTION. CA, INC., SELL AT 21 W. 47TH ST., MAN., COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY CESS PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS BALANCE ON HAND $1,184,154.13 #175360 TY, AT 2 JOHNSON STREET ROOM 319, #174967 AT 9 A.M. ALL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTOR- BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ON DECEM- OF SCPA ARTICLE 3 UPON SUCH PER- FOR THE FOLLOWING PAWNBROKERS NEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY SONS NAMED IN PARAGRAPH (6) LIQUOR LICENSE BER 19, 2019, AT 09:30 O’CLOCK IN DIVORCE SUMMONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN INCLUDING ALL HOLDOVERS FROM WHO FILED THE FORECLOSURE PRO- WHOSE NAMES OR WHEREABOUTS THE FORENOON OF THAT DAY, WHY DIVORCE SUMMONS BY PUBLICA- ON-PREMISE LICENSE, #TBA HAS PREVIOUS SALES: CEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING ARE UNKNOWN AND CANNOT BE THE ACCOUNT OF PUBLIC ADMIN- TION AND MAILING DOCKET NO. BEEN APPLIED FOR BY K B G CATER- DEC. 3/19 - MODELL COLLATERAL THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DE- ASCERTAINED OR WHO MAY BE PER- ISTRATOR KINGS COUNTY, A SUM- BA19D0310DR COMMONWEALTH OF ING CORP TO SELL BEER, WINE, CI- LOANS, INC., 21 W. 47TH ST., MAN., FAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED SONS ON WHOM SERVICE BY PER- MARY OF WHICH HAS BEEN SERVED MASSACHUSETTS THE TRIAL COURT DER AND LIQUOR AT RETAIL IN AN FROM 304523 OF DEC. 17, 2018 TO AND YOU CAN LOSE YOU R HOME. SONAL DELIVERY CANNOT BE MADE. HEREWITH, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT HER- ON PREMISES ESTABLISHMENT. FOR 309722 OF JULY 31, 2019. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE ESTATE OF RICHARD BELLAK, (H) WHY THE PETITIONER, UPON FUL- BERT A. GREY VS. MARCIA V. CAMP- ON PREMISES CONSUMPTION UN- DEC. 3/19 - MODELL COLLATER- THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS SHOULD NOT BE JUDICIALLY SET- LY COMPLYING WITH THE DECREE BELL BARNSTABLE PROBATE AND AL LOANS, INC., 308 ATLANTIC AVE., DER THE ABC LAW AT 1003 BRIGHTON PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMA- TLED. [X] FURTHER RELIEF SOUGHT TO BE MADE IN THIS PROCEEDING, FAMILY COURT 3195 MAIN STREET, BROOKLYN, FROM 276040 OF DEC. 17, BEACH AVENUE BROOKLYN NY 11235. TION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUM- (IF ANY): (A) WHY THE PUBLIC AD- SHOULD NOT BE RELEASED AND DIS- P.O. BOX 346, BARNSTABLE, MA 02630. #175530 2018 TO 277866 OF JULY 31, 2019. MONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPER- MINISTRATOR OF KINGS COUNTY CHARGED OF AND FROM ANY AND TO THE DEFENDANT: THE PLAIN- DEC. 3/19 - MODELL COLLATER- TY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR SHOULD NOT BE PAID HIS COMMIS- ALL LIABILITY, RESPONSIBILITY AND TIFF HAS FILED A COMPLAINT FOR N.Y. PAWNBROKERS INC. AL LOANS, INC., 1736 PITKIN AVE., SIONS IN THE AMOUNT OF $38,866.83 ACCOUNTABILITY WITH RESPECT TO DIVORCE REQUESTING THAT THE CASPERT MANAGEMENT CO., INC. BROOKLYN, FROM 547553 OF SEPT. MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT AS SET FORTH IN SCHEDULE I OF THE THE PETITIONER’S ACTS AND PRO- COURT GRANT A DIVORCE FOR IRRE- (DCA #0869125) LOCATED AT 333 29, 2017 TO 560970 OF JULY 31, 2019. STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. ACCOUNT, OR SUCH OTHER AMOUNT CEEDINGS AS ADMINISTRATOR AS TRIEVABLE BREAKDOWN. THE COM- SYLVAN AVE ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS DEC. 3/19 - MODELL COLLATERAL YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A AS THE COURT MAY FIX AND DETER- SET FORTH AND EMBRACED IN SAID PLAINT IS ON FILE AT THE COURT. AN N.J. 07632 AS AGENTS FOR N.Y. LOANS, INC., 8413 5TH AVE, BROOK- COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE AT- MINE; (B) WHY THE PUBLIC ADMINIS- ACCOUNT AND THE COURT GRANT AUTOMATIC RESTRAINING ORDER PAWNBROKERS INC (DCA # 803727) LYN, FROM 559518 OF APR. 25, 2018 TORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORT- TRATOR OF KINGS COUNTY SHOULD SUCH OTHER AND FURTHER RELIEF HAS BEEN ENTERED IN THIS MATTER 301 EAST 149TH ST. BRONX, N.Y. TO 564330 OF JULY 31, 2019. GAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE NOT BE PAID HIS ADMINISTRA- AS IT DEEMS JUST AND PROPER (I) PREVENTING YOU FROM TAKING ANY 100451, N.Y. PAWNBROKERS I INC DEC. 3/19 - MODELL COLLATERAL ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: TIVE EXPENSES IN THE AMOUNT OF WHY PETITIONER SHOULD NOT BE ACTION WHICH WOULD NEGATIVE- (DCA#9072023) 177 RIVINGTON N.Y. LOANS, INC., 116-17 JAMAICA AVE., DAVID A. GALLO & ASSOCIATES LLP $11,979.88 AS SET FORTH IN SCHED- AUTHORIZED TO RETAIN A RESERVE LY IMPACT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL N.Y. 10002, N.Y. PAWNBROKERS II INC RICHMOND HILL, FROM 102778 OF 99 POWERHOUSE ROAD, FIRST FLOOR ULE J OF THE ACCOUNT, OR SUCH FOR ANY TAXES THAT MIGHT BE DUE STATUS OF EITHER PARTY. SEE SUP- (DCA#1125229) 303 EAST 149TH ST. JULY 8, 2011 TO 118948 OF JULY 31, ROSLYN HEIGHTS, NEW YORK, 11577 OTHER AMOUNT AS THE COURT MAY FROM THE ESTATE IN AN AMOUNT PLEMENTAL PROBATE COURT RULE BRONX, N.Y. 10451. SALES ON 12/2/19 2019. (516) 583-5330 FIX AND DETERMINE; (C) WHY THE AUTHORIZED BY THE COURT. DATED, 411. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AT 6 A.M. AT 105 ATTORNEY ST NY, NY #175363 #175518 2nd department / new business Formations 11208 AVENUE SUITE 424 BROOKLYN, NY, COPY OF ANY PROCESS AGAINST THE WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE IGNATED AS AGENT OF THE LLC UPON BEEN DESIGNATED AS AGENT OF THE 11209. PURPOSE/CHARACTER OF LLC: LLC SERVED UPON HIM/HER IS 2107 SERVED. THE POST OFFICE ADDRESS WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE LLC UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST TENDER TOUCH ANY LAWFUL PURPOSE. NOSTRAND LLC, 2107 NOSTRAND TO WHICH THE SSNY SHALL MAIL A SERVED. THE POST OFFICE ADDRESS BABY CARE, LLC #174560 AVE BROOKLYN, NY, 11210. PURPOSE/ COPY OF ANY PROCESS AGAINST THE TO WHICH THE SSNY SHALL MAIL IT MAY BE SERVED. THE POST OFFICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMIT- FONTAINE CHARACTER OF LLC: ANY LAWFUL LLC SERVED UPON HIM/HER IS THE A COPY OF ANY PROCESS AGAINST ADDRESS TO WHICH THE SSNY SHALL PURPOSE. LLC, 113 HANCOCK STREET BROOK- THE LLC SERVED UPON HIM/HER IS ED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: MAIL A COPY OF ANY PROCESS TENDER TOUCH BABY CARE, LLC. AR- CONSULTANCY LLC #174541 LYN, NY, 11216. PURPOSE/CHARAC- MELODIE ORTEGA 340 52ND ST APT TICLES OF ORGANIZATION FILED NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMIT- TER OF LLC: ANY LAWFUL PURPOSE. 2B BROOKLYN, NY, 11220. PURPOSE/ AGAINST THE LLC SERVED UPON ED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: 11211 #175341 WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OF NEW CHARACTER OF LLC: ANY LAWFUL HIM/HER IS ONE THOUSAND FISTS, YORK (SSNY) ON 11/05/2019. 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OF STATE OF PO BOX 148, BROOKLYN, NY 11203. TO WHICH THE SSNY SHALL MAIL A THE BOBNBABS, LLC PICTURES LLC NY (SSNY) ON 11/12/19. OFFICE LOCA- GENERAL PURPOSE. COPY OF ANY PROCESS AGAINST THE THE BOBNBABS, LLC, ARTS. OF ORG. TOWER DEVELOPMENTS CARRIAGE HOUSE PICTURES LLC. TION: KINGS COUNTY. LLC FORMED IN #175507 LLC SERVED UPON HIM/HER IS CLXUD FILED WITH THE SSNY ON 10/21/2019. GROUP, LLC FILED 9/11/19. OFFICE: KINGS CO. DELAWARE (DE) ON 08/12/19. PRINC. LLC 631 VANDALIA AVE. BROOKLYN, OFFICE LOC: KINGS COUNTY. SSNY TOWER DEVELOPMENTS GROUP, LLC SSNY DESIGNATED AS AGENT FOR OFFICE OF LLC: 45 MAIN ST., BROOK- MB WINE STORAGE LLC LYN, NY 11201. SSNY DESIGNATED AS NY, 11239. PURPOSE/CHARACTER OF HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS AGENT FILED W/ SSNY ON 8/27/14. OFFICE: PROCESS & SHALL MAIL TO: CHRIS L. MB WINE STORAGE LLC, ARTS OF AGENT OF LLC UPON WHOM PRO- LLC: ANY LAWFUL PURPOSE. UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST KINGS CO. SSNY DESIGNATED AS PEREZ, 400 S. BEVERLY DR. STE 400, ORG. FILED WITH SEC. 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SSNY DES- KINGS CO. SSNY DESIGN. AGENT OF BULLOCK, SECY. OF STATE, DE DIV. OF BROOKLYN, NY 11230. GENERAL PUR- NOTICE OF FORMATION OF S & A 2200 FICE: KINGS CO. SSNY DESIGNATED IGNATED AS AGENT FOR PROCESS & CORPS., 401 FEDERAL ST - STE. 4, DO- LLC UPON WHOM PROCESS MAY BE POSE. LLC AS AGENT FOR PROCESS & SHALL SHALL MAIL TO: CHRIS L. PEREZ, 400 S. VER, DE 19901. PURPOSE: ANY LAW- SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL COPY OF #175508 ARTS. OF ORG. FILED WITH SECY. OF MAIL TO: 597 MILLER AVE, BRKLYN, NY BEVERLY DR. STE 400, BEVERLY HILLS, FUL ACTIVITY. PROCESS TO THE LLC 254 36TH ST STE STATE OF NY (SSNY) ON 10/15/19. 11207. PURPOSE: GENERAL. #175503 #174750 CA 90212. PURPOSE: GENERAL. 336 UNIT 55 BROOKLYN, NY 11232. OFFICE LOCATION: KINGS COUNTY. #174772 14221 PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL ACTIVITY. PRINC. OFFICE OF LLC: 2200 85TH LINSDALE MONROE LLC #174559 MEDICATION RISK TAKE ROOT & BLOSSOM LLC ST., BROOKLYN, NY 11214. 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Monday, November 25, 2019 • Brooklyn Daily Eagle • 7 Our World In Pictures

HONG KONG — End of the line: Protesters assembled an “SOS” sign out of clothes and helmets at Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Fri- day, as more demonstrators left the campus to surrender to police. AP Photo/Kin Cheung

IRAQ — Firing back: A protester threw a tear gas canister fired by police during clashes in Baghdad on Friday. AP Photo/Hadi Mizban

CALIFORNIA — Ready for launch: Cara Delevingne and Olivier Roust- eing attended the PUMA x Balmain x Cara Delevingne LA Launch Party at THAILAND — Quiet moment: Pope Francis kissed the altar as he celebrated Mass at the Assumption Milk Studios in Los Angeles on Thursday. Cathedral in Bangkok on Friday. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

8 • BQ Daily Eagle • Monday, November 25, 2019 Our World In Pictures

BOLIVIA — Filling the streets: Demonstrators in La Paz on Thursday accom- panied coffins containing the remains of protesters killed Tuesday by security forc- es during demonstrations against the exile of former President Evo Morales. AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko

SOUTH AFRICA — Good friends: Orphanage worker Janie Van Heerden and a young Belgian Malinois named Hunter kept an eye on Jazz, a nine-day-old giraffe, at the Rhino Orphanage in Limpopo on Friday. AP Photo/Jerome Delay

NEW YORK — Night at the museum: Tina Fey attended the Ameri- CALIFORNIA — New creation: Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Cybertruck at Tesla’s design studio on can Museum of Natural History’s annual gala in New York City on Thurs- Thursday in Hawthorne. The new vehicle is designed to compete in the workhorse heavy pickup truck day. Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP market. AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu

Monday, November 25, 2019 • BQ Daily Eagle • 9 Queens, B’klyn DAs rarely challenge conviction sealing requests — but few people apply By David Brand an application to seal a Quart said. Queens Daily Eagle grand larceny conviction “The whole goal is to ex- A two-year-old state because the defendant had pand the number of individ- measure designed to help reached a plea deal after uals whose records we seal people with certain crim- prosecutors sought armed or expunge,” Quart said. inal convictions seal their robbery charges. “That’s the goal here — records has so far failed to “The facts of the crime, to help people get on with live up to its potential in I felt, were incredibly vio- their lives.” Queens and Brooklyn — lent and I was not comfort- Prosecutors across the even though district attor- able with wiping that off five boroughs have partic- neys have challenged few his slate,” Spanakos said ipated in events to spread applications. last year. awareness about convic- The law enables New In Brooklyn, the DA has tion sealing, and lawmakers Yorkers with no more than challenged 16 applications have hosted workshops to two misdemeanor convic- because of public safety help people complete their tions or one nonviolent fel- concerns, said spokesper- applications. But the efforts ony and one misdemeanor son Oren Yaniv. A total of haven’t reached many peo- conviction to apply to have 95 people had their convic- ple. “Fewer than 1 percent their convictions sealed if tions sealed in Brooklyn, of the expected pool of el- they have not been convict- while four cases are pend- igible people have accessed Legal Aid attorney Emma Goodman (right) has organized various conviction-sealing ed of a crime for at least 10 ing. the law,” said Kate Wag- workshops around Queens. In this August 2018 file photo, Goodman and Legal Aid years. State officials said Yaniv described three ner-Goldstein, senior staff attorney Melissa Ader discuss conviction-sealing at an event sponsored by Borough hundreds of thousands of examples of why the Brook- attorney at the Legal Action President Melinda Katz. Eagle file photo by Andy Katz. New Yorkers would qual- lyn DA challenged convic- Center, in a statement. ify when the law was en- tion sealing for public safe- The Brooklyn DA’s Of- acted in Oct. 2017. But so ty reasons. In one case, he fice has also advocated for far, only 1,819 people state- said, a woman had been in- state lawmakers to update wide, including 930 in New dicted for beating her chil- the statute to ensure that York City, have benefited. dren and pleaded guilty to more people qualify. Advocates say too few endangering the welfare of “We believe the eligibil- people know about the child. She applied for con- ity requirements are nar- measure, while many who viction sealing because she rowly drafted and we feel do apply do not actually wanted to open a daycare, they fail to give prosecutors qualify. “We need to bring he said. or the courts discretion,” this to the public’s atten- In another case, a person Yaniv said. tion,” said Manhattan As- convicted of a nonviolent Though several criminal semblymember Dan Quart, offense in a domestic vio- justice measures passed the a candidate for Manhattan lence case was seeking a job state legislature and will DA. “Waiting for people to as a nurse. The DA’s Office take effect on Jan. 1, 2020, come forward is not going contended that the person’s an expansion of the existing to work.” conduct was in fact violent, record-sealing law slipped People who qualify have even though the conviction through the cracks, said generally succeeded in get- did not reflect that. Legal Aid Society attorney ting their convictions sealed In a third case, the defen- Emma Goodman. in Queens and Brooklyn. dant lured a teenage boy for Goodman said she is op- The Queens DA’s Office sex, but was not convicted timistic that the state will has only challenged four of a sex offense. take up the issue during qualifying applications, a But in the majority of the upcoming legislative spokesperson told the Ea- instances, the two DA’s Of- session. A better statute gle. A total of 115 people fices have not challenged would include additional had their convictions sealed applications from people types of convictions while — including two who the whose decades-old criminal providing automatic seal- DA opposed — while an- convictions have prevented ing or expungement so that other 31 did not qualify un- them from obtaining jobs or people don’t have to apply, der the statute. housing. she said. FOIL and Document Pro- Quart has called on the “When it comes down duction Chief Anastasia state legislature to expand to it, even if it’s a violent Spanakos handles the seal- the law so that it includes felony from 20 years ago, ing applications and tracks additional offenses or allow some people are completely down old court documents, people to automatically get rehabilitated,” she said. “A witnesses and even victims’ certain convictions sealed judge should make the ulti- family members to deter- and/or expunged from their mate decision.” mine whether the office records — especially of- This article is part two in will challenge sealing In fenses, like gravity knife a series revisiting the first August 2018, Spanakos said possession, that are no two years under the state’s Manhattan Assemblymember Dan Quart said the state legislature should expand the the DA’s office challenged longer regarded as crimes, conviction sealing law. sealing law to automatically seal and/or expunge records. 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10 • Queens Daily Eagle • Monday, November 25, 2019 Winfrey, Coates among speakers 2nd department/ public legal notices at tribute to Toni Morrison By Hillel Italie The Associated Press In offering tribute to Toni Morrison, speakers from Oprah Winfrey to Fran Lebowitz on Thursday each shared a very dif- ferent, but equally special portrait of the late Nobel laureate, who died in August at 88. Angela Davis remembered a dear friend who as a Random House editor helped launch her writing career and would jot down notes for what became the classic “Song of Solomon” as she cooked eggs for her family. Lebowitz marveled at Morri- son’s seemingly photographic memory of the bad reviews she had received. Poet Kevin Young once went to the movies (“The Five Heartbeats”) with her and otherwise proudly sat at her feet. Winfrey spoke of Morrison’s majestic, sometimes intimidating presence, and of the complexity of her work, novels such as “Beloved” for which a single reading was not enough. She also acknowledged that her heroine, so down to earth on some occa- sions, was well aware that she really was Toni Morrison. “She told me once, ‘I’ve always known I was gallant,’” Win- It was standing-room-only at the Celebration of the Life of Toni Morrison on Thursday. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer frey confided to thousands gathered at sundown at Manhattan’s landmark “Black Book,” a scrapbook of black American life that historic Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where more than 30 his father kept in the family’s bookstore in the 1970s. He praised years earlier Morrison had been among those saying goodbye to the economy and poetry of her language, her sense of humor and James Baldwin. “Who says that? Who even goes there?” the wisdom of what he called “grown folks’ literature.” With its massive rose window and nave ceiling reaching Coates, 44, best known for his prize-winning meditation on more than 100 feet, the cathedral was suitably grand for an au- race and police violence “Between the World and Me,” called thor who may well endure as the essential American literary Morrison a challenge for other writers, the “queen of them all.” voice of her time, one who universalized the stories of black One of her messages was, he said, “Black is beautiful, but it ain’t Americans and raised American prose to poetic heights. Attend- always pretty.” ees were young and old, of diverse genders and races, members Words on Thursday were interspersed with music, from the of the publishing world and longtime fans. They filled the front dreamlike saxophone solo of David Murray to singer-pianist seats, and the back seats. Some sat quietly through the roughly Andy Bey’s reflective take on “Someone to Watch Over Me.” 100-minute ceremony, others murmured, affirmed and cheered But the deepest music was in the words of Morrison, in a passage out loud. from “Song of Solomon” — selected by Winfrey — about the Speakers stood in the cathedral’s pulpit and hailed the spir- power and possibility of land. it of Morrison. Jesmyn Ward, a two-time National Book Award “’You see?’ the farm said to them. ‘See? See what you can do? winner, outlined the long history of how blacks had been robbed and usurped and called Morrison a kind of prophet who found Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind a wandering people “in the desert of the self” and saved them, you born a slave, never mind you lose your name, never mind deeming them “worthy to be heard.” Author Edwidge Danticat, your daddy dead, never mind nothing. Here, this here, is what a fondly speaking of Morrison’s smoking a cigarette at the Louvre man can do if he puts his mind to it and his back into it,” Winfrey in Paris, noted her identities as a mother, grandmother, sister, read, her voice rising into a fierce chant. editor and teacher, and now, in her passing, an ancestor. “Grab it! Grab this land! Take it, hold it, my brothers, make it, Ta-Nehisi Coates, not even born when Morrison published my brothers, shake it, squeeze it, turn it, twist it, beat it, kick it, her debut novel “The Bluest Eye,” acknowledged his jealousy kiss it, whip it, stomp it, dig it, plow it, seed it, reap it, rent it, buy The late American novelist Toni Morrison, who died in Au- that some got to know her so well. Morrison’s impact on him it, sell it, own it, build it, multiply it, and pass it on — can you gust at 88. AP Photo/Michel Euler, File was through her printed words. He spoke of being startled by the hear me? Pass it on!” Bushwick artists imagine a ‘Female Joker’ in new show By Alex Williamson sounds with puppets,” said Alan, adding that this is all taking place as BQ Daily Eagle he plays music. The lack of a script allows the viewer to “decide for The Joker is really having a moment, and a couple of Bush- themselves what the meaning behind her words are,” he said. wick-based artists capitalized on the buzz this past Saturday while The show, according to Alan, was especially targeted at those who taking the character in a more feminine direction. are tired of “fancy art ass-kissing. Performance artist Jadda Cat presented “Female Joker” on Nov. “It’s about taking friends, or making new friends,” he said. “Or 23, along with partner Michael Alan, in his Bushwick studio. even finding someone that doesn’t like it and, boom! We’re on a jour- The artists describe the show, which is part of their Living ney.” Installation series, as a four-hour “emotional journey,” in which Jadda deploys paint, glitter, silly string, makeup, balloons, plastic wrap and other common items to transform herself into multiple versions of the Joker, “altering states between human and a living sculpture.” Jadda’s performance replaced a typical makeup routine with the name change application of clown makeup, taking the common ritual to the level of absurd with the goal of upending the audience’s expectations for how NAME CHANGE NAME CHANGE a woman should look. LAMA DOUGHERTY “I turn myself into strange creatures over and over,” said Jadda. “I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN break free from these expectations that culture puts on me, becoming ORDER ENTERED BY THE CIVIL COURT, ORDER ENTERED BY THE CIVIL COURT, QUEENS COUNTY ON THE 18TH DAY QUEENS COUNTY ON THE 15TH DAY disgusting, fat, short, tall, feminine, masculine or slimy. This can be “Female Joker” takes a woman’s typical makeup routine OF OCTOBER, 2019, BEARING THE IN- OF OCTOBER, 2019, BEARING THE IN- beautiful to some or terrifying to others.” to an absurd level. Photo by Michael Alan DEX NUMBER NC-000919-19/QU, A DEX NUMBER NC-000820-19/QU, A A four-hour art show might sound like a marathon for both the art- COPY OF WHICH MAY BE EXAMINED COPY OF WHICH MAY BE EXAMINED ist and the audience, but Alan says he’s actually shortened the Living want to stick around. “We try our best to not present these in tradi- AT THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK LOCAT- AT THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK LOCAT- ED AT CIVIL COURT, QUEENS COUN- ED AT CIVIL COURT, 89-17 SUTPHIN Installation performances since he started them nearly 20 years ago. tional settings. For me the chit-chat part of social art anxiety can be TY, 89-17 SUTPHIN BOULEVARD, JA- BOULEVARD, JAMAICA, NY 11435, The original shows, which Alan began staging at his School of Visual overwhelming,” he said. MAICA, NY 11435, GRANTS ME (US) GRANTS ME (US) THE RIGHT TO: AS- Art studio in 2000, lasted eight to 12 hours. The Joker iterations that Jadda embodies are derived from Alan’s THE RIGHT TO: ASSUME THE NAME SUME THE NAME OF (FIRST) JOHN According to Jadda, getting into character as the Joker actually paintings, which are brightly colored, busy, a little bit creepy and bor- OF (FIRST) EMMA (MIDDLE) WANG- (MIDDLE) JOSEPH (LAST) DOUGH- MO (LAST) LAMA. MY PRESENT NAME ERTY. MY PRESENT NAME IS (FIRST) gives her energy. dering on haphazard. IS (FIRST) TENZIN (MIDDLE) WANGMO JOHN (MIDDLE) JOSEPH (LAST) CA- “I run on adrenaline and get lost in performing,” she said. “After Like the artwork that inspires it, Jadda’s performance has a lot go- (LAST) LAMA (INFANT). THE CITY AND PELLA. THE CITY AND STATE OF MY the performance is over, I feel great. It can last for days as an after- ing on, (“Image overload. Just like New York City!” Alan says). What STATE OF MY CURRENT ADDRESS ARE CURRENT ADDRESS ARE JAMAICA, glow or a high with no drugs.” it doesn’t have are intelligible pieces of English dialogue, although ELMHURST, NY. MY PLACE OF BIRTH IS NY. MY PLACE OF BIRTH IS STATEN IS- QUEENS, NY. THE MONTH AND YEAR LAND, NEW YORK. THE MONTH AND During the shows, the audience is free to come and go, Alan says, she is vocal. OF MY BIRTH IS JULY 2019. YEAR OF MY BIRTH IS AUGUST 2001. and the laid-back environment of his studio generally makes people “She sings in gibberish, makes animal noises or creates action #175334 #175279 Monday, November 25, 2019 • SECOND DEPARTMENT/Queens/Daily Eagle • 11 NYC pols to Albany: Legalize It

Continued from page 1 by the drug wars.” With the state legalization “This is an issue of eco- bill in limbo, the City Council nomic fairness to black and passed a bill in April to ban communities, to expunging most employers in New York the records of people who got City from conducting marijua- caught up in the drug wars for na testing. doing something frankly no “This is a social justice issue. different than the white kids in This is a criminal justice issue. my district have been doing for This is not simply a marijuana ever and ever,” Krueger said. issue,” Queens and Brook- “In making sure that when we lyn Councilmember Antonio build a new, legal economic Reynoso said at the rally. “We engine that can ensure jobs for will not support a half-assed people in all communities with plan when it comes to the work a focus on the communities we need to do, when it comes to Public Advocate Jumaane Williams spoke at a press conference on Thursday about supporting marijuana legalization. that were done the most harm marijuana legalization.” Eagle photo by Victoria Merlino Two Queens men sentenced for assaulting Rikers guards By Jonathan Sperling land, Bledman and Morris release supervision, to run Queens Daily Eagle stepped out of the holding concurrent with the sentence A pair of Queens men space without permission for assaulting the correction who assaulted a group of and were ordered back in- officers. Morris pleaded Vandals scrawled white nationalists symbols into the sand in Belle Harbor days after anti- correction officers as they side by correction officers. guilty to first-degree rob- Semitic vandals defaced the Silver Gull Beach Club in Breezy Point. were being transported to Without provocation, bery, second-degree crimi- Photo obtained from a source Rikers Island from court ap- prosecutors say, the two men nal possession of a weapon pearances in Queens. began assaulting three cor- and fourth-degree conspira- Brandon Bledman, 24, of rection officers. By the time cy and sentenced to 10 years Queens Village and Nicho- the altercation was over, the in prison with 5 years’ post Park Service partners las Morris, 23, of Jamaica, three officers had to be sent release supervision, also to were sentenced to eight and to the hospital for treatment; run concurrent to the assault nine years in prison respec- one officer required exten- conviction sentence. tively after they both plead sive treatment and surgery. “The defendants in this with human rights group guilty to assaulting a peace Both Bledman and Mor- case attacked and serious- officer inside the Queens ris were detained on charges ly injured 3 New York City Detention Center on Jan. 25, related to a plot to shoot at Correction Officers, who 2019. rival gang members at the were carrying out their du- to counter anti-Semitic The two men were placed time of the assault. Bledman ties when the two men as- inside of a holding cell at the pleaded guilty to second-de- saulted them. This kind of Queens Detention Center gree criminal possession violence is unacceptable graffiti in Breezy Point Annex following a court ap- of a weapon and fourth-de- and will not be tolerated,” pearance prior to the assault. gree conspiracy and was Acting Queens District At- By Jonathan Sperling cated at 1 Beach 193rd St. in cific white nationalist slogans, As they waited for transpor- sentenced to prison for four torney John Ryan said in a Queens Daily Eagle Breezy Point, at 11 a.m. today. including “white pride” and tation back to Rikers Is- years with five years’ post statement. Almost three months after Vandals scrawled “gas “14/88.” hateful vandals scrawled an- chamber,” anti-Semitic mes- “I was horrified and dis- ti-Semitic messages and racial sages and other racial slurs on gusted to learn of not only one, slurs on the walls of a Breezy the walls and playground at but two incidents in our com- Point surf club, a group of hu- the Silver Gull, a private beach munity this weekend where man rights advocates and of- club, during Labor Day Week- Nazi imagery and anti-Se- ficials from the National Park end. The graffiti, smeared in mitic graffiti were discov- Service are unveiling a model red paint, forced the Silver ered,” local Assemblymember plan aimed at countering fu- Gull to close its playground. Stacey Pheffer Amato wrote ture instances of hate. Two days after the incident on Facebook at the time of Gateway National Recre- at the Silver Gull, beachgoers the incident. “The fact that ation Area, Ortega National in nearby Belle Harbor en- these images were discovered Parks and the Simon Wiesen- countered more anti-Semitic means that there is a system- thal Center will speak at the messages dug into the sand. atic attempt to intimidate this Silver Gull Beach Club, lo- The messages included spe- community.”

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12 • Queens Daily Eagle • Monday, November 25, 2019 Council Speaker highlights staffers’ right to organize in email to members By David Brand cise those rights in this re- Queens Daily Eagle gard is prohibited.” Four days after City “All Council Members, Council staffers officially their Chiefs of Staff, Divi- kicked off a unionization sion Directors, and other effort, Council Speaker Co- supervisors should be par- rey Johnson sent an email to ticularly aware of this pro- members highlighting their hibition and ensure that they aides’ right to organize. do not engage in any form of The email, shared with retaliation against any staff- the Eagle, comes a day af- er who seeks to unionize,” ter Johnson discussed the he continued. legal right to unionize with Council staffers kicked members of the Democratic off the union drive on Nov. conference. 18, galvanized by allega- “I am writing to ensure tions of serial harassment that everyone knows that and intimidation by Bronx under applicable law, Coun- Councilmember Andy King cil staff are entitled to form, and other members. A report join, and participate in a earlier this month by the union of their own choos- Eagle also identified deep ing,” Johnson wrote in the disparities in pay across email. “Any deliberate dis- districts and within offices, couragement or interference with dozens of aides earn- Council Speaker Corey Johnson sent an email to members reminding them of staffers’ legal right to organize. with staff’s ability to exer- ing incomes below $36,000. Eagle file photo by Victoria Merlino Number of new HIV diagnoses falls below 2,000 in New York City Associated Press 1,917 people were newly di- sex-positive approach” to pre- Health officials say the agnosed with HIV in New venting new infections with number of people newly diag- York City in 2018. That’s the virus that causes AIDS. nosed with HIV in New York down 11 percent from the City Council Speaker Co- City has fallen below 2,000 2,157 new diagnoses reported rey Johnson says the decline for the first time since the in 2017. It’s down a steep 67 in new HIV cases is “truly city started keeping records percent from 2001. something to celebrate.” But in 2001. City Health Commission- Johnson says there is “so According to 2018 HIV er Dr. Oxiris Barbot says much work to do” to further Surveillance Annual Report, the city takes “a data-driven, reduce HIV rates in the city.

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Monday, November 25, 2019 • Queens Daily Eagle • 13 RECENT COURT DECISIONS AND APPEALS

By C. B. Abruzzese Brooklyn Daily Eagle INADEQUATE APPENDIX LEADS TO DISMISSAL OF DIVORCE APPEAL Appellate Division, Second Department In the Appellate Division, Second Department, Hisham Ahmed Almeh- dawi appealed a judgment of divorce that was rendered by Hon. Esther Morgenstern of Kings County Supreme Court, Civil Term, on Sept. 23, 2016. In response to Almehdawi’s appeal, the appellate justices explained that, although they have the inherent juris- diction to do so, they do not consider issues that were, or could have been, previously raised on an earlier appeal which was dismissed for lack of prose- cution. Previously, Almehdawi had Hon. Esther Morgenstern appealed an order dated Dec. 18, 2013 Photo courtesy of the Office of in the Appellate Division, Second Court Administration Department, that denied his motion to dismiss the complaint. That appeal was dismissed for failure to prosecute on Jan. 5, 2015. Therefore, the justices deter- mined that the dismissal for lack of prosecution barred the most recent appeal by Almehdawi. They went on to note that the remainder of the appeal had to be dismissed for failure to compile an adequate appendix. In order to perfect an appeal using the appendix method, the appellant must file an appen- dix that “contains all the relevant portions of the record in order to enable the court to render an informed decision on the merits of the appeal.” In his appeal, Almehdawi contend- ed that the Supreme Court erred in determining that the mar- riage was valid. In their review of the record, the justices found that the court’s decision after trial indicated that the court had received evidence at the trial on the issue, including Almehdawi’s purported testimony that the marriage between himself and Khadija Abouelhassan was “fake.” However, Almehdawi’s appendix did not contain any of the relevant trial transcripts and was therefore inadequate to enable the jus- tices to render an informed decision on the merits. As a result, the appeal was dismissed. —Abouelhassan v. Almehdawi, 2016-11958, Nov. 20, 2019 ••• DISMISSAL DENIED IN MEDICAL MALPRACTICE COMPLAINT Appellate Division, Second Department IIn a case that involved claims of medical malpractice, defendants Deepak Nanda, Debra Carter-Greene and North Shore LIJ Medical Center appealed an order by Hon. Peter O’Donoghue of Queens County Supreme Court, Civil Term. That order, entered May 23, 2017, denied the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against them. In her complaint, Lashal Williams alleged that that Nanda and Carter-Greene were negligent in their failure to timely diagnose and treat a pla- cental abruption that resulted in the intrauterine demise of her fetus, which was at 28 weeks of gestation, and that North Shore LIJ Medical Center was vicariously liable for the actions of Nanda and Carter-Greene. Following the completion of dis- covery, the defendants moved for summary judgment dis- missing the complaint and were denied by the Supreme Court. In response to their appeal, the justices of the Appellate Division, Second Department, explained that a defendant seeking summary judgment in a medical malprac- tice complaint must demonstrate either that he or she did not depart from the accepted standard of care or that any depar- ture was not a proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injuries. In this case, the justices found that the North Shore defendants met their burden for summary judgment through the affirmation of their expert who asserted that, based on his review of the medical records, Nanda and Carter-Greene’s treatment of Williams was within the appropriate standard of medical care and that, in any event, any alleged departures were not a proximate cause of the fetal demise. However, the justices also concluded that Williams raised a triable issue of fact in response, through her expert’s opinion that the North Shore defendants departed from the standard of care by failing, upon her presentation with sharp back and abdominal pain and other symptoms characteristic of placental abruption, to admit Williams to the hospital for continuous fetal monitor- ing. In the opinion of Williams’ expert, such monitoring would have allowed the defendants to monitor the fetus for signs of distress and prompted them to deliver the fetus by emer- gency c-section. Additionally, the justices noted that the expert for Williams opined that a fetus at 28 weeks of gesta- tion is viable and would have had a 90 percent chance of sur- vival. As such, the justices agreed with the Supreme Court’s determination to deny the motion for summary judgment dis- missing the complaint against the North Shore defendants. —Williams v. Nanda, 2017-07749, November 20, 2019

14 • SECOND DEPARTMENT/Queens/Daily Eagle • Monday, November 25, 2019 Queens DA-elect Katz names transition team Continued from page 1 tive lack of diversity among “Changing this system is executive staff members and going to take a skilled ad- will serve as executive direc- called on the DA’s Office to ministrator with deep ties tor of the transition team on a employ more people of color, to communities through- volunteer basis. especially men. out Queens: someone who Katz, the current Queens “There are hundreds of can not only listen to our Borough President, filled out men of color being prose- concerns, but know how to the team with several defense cuted in Queens, and those work the levers of power to attorneys, nonprofit leaders numbers are horrible,” effect change,” Foy wrote and activists, who will help Brown-Douglas told the Ea- in an op-ed for the Eagle in facilitate “a new dawn of jus- gle in March. “When my June. tice in Queens,” she said. clients look in my face, they “District Attorneys may “Justice has been denied see what’s possible for them- have a lot of power to change as other counties in our state selves.” the justice system, but the and across the country were Latino Lawyers Associa- system often pushes back,” at the forefront of reforming tion of Queens County Presi- he continued. “Melinda has our criminal justice system,” dent Thomas Oliva has advo- a career-long track record Retired Judge Randall Eng and defense attorney Christopher Renfroe will co-chair the Katz said in a statement. cated for Latinx residents of of taking on powerful inter- transition team. Eagle file photo by andy Katz; Photo via Renfroe Driscoll “We will prove definitively Queens to ascend to positions ests and changing the system in Queens that you can en- of authority, including in the to fight for those she rep- Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathe- • Everett Hopkins, Esq. - Ma- Deputy Commissioner, New hance safety and equality at Queens DA’s Office. He said resents.” dral of New York con B. Allen Black Bar As- York City Police Department the same time, in a way that he welcomed the opportuni- The full transition • Joan B. Brown, Esq. sociation • Dilip Nath - SUNY Down- is collaborative and benefits ty to serve on the transition team includes: • Dr. Tricia Callender, PhD - • Lucy Lang, Esq. - Institute state Medical Center all of us.” team. • Anstiss Agnew - Forest- Sociologist for Innovation in Prosecution • Thomas Oliva, Esq. - Lati- The diverse roster of tran- “When you’re asked to sit dale, Inc. • Ray Cameron - NYC De- at John Jay College of Crimi- no Lawyers Association of sition team members include at the table for these kind • Amy Arundell - United partment of Probation nal Justice (CUNY) Queens County outspoken critics of the pol- of conversations given how Federation of Teachers • David Cohen - 32BJ SEIU • Jacques M. Leandre, Esq. • JoAnne Page, Esq. - The icies of the Queens DA’s much is going on in Queens, • Nicole Paultre Bell - Activ- • Reverend Dr. Phil Craig - • Hon. Jeffrey Lebowitz Fortune Society Office under late DA Rich- you have to do it," Oliva told ist Greater Springfield Commu- - Justice of the New York • Camille Russell, Esq. ard Brown — who served the Eagle Friday. • Pascale Bernard, MSW - nity Church State Supreme Court (Re- • Lisa Schreibersdorf, Esq. - from 1991 until his death in Reverend Kirsten John Planned Parenthood of New • Sister Tesa Fitzgerald - tired) Brooklyn Defender Services May — and Acting DA John Foy, a civil rights activist and York City Hour Children, Inc. • Jack Leibler, Esq. • Matthew Silverstein - Ryan. another transition team mem- • Dr. John H. Boyd, II - New • Reverend Kirsten John Foy • Nelson A. Madrid, Esq. America Works of New York, Defense attorney Victo- ber, served as a surrogate Greater Bethel Ministries - Arc of Justice • Jane Manning, Esq. - Wom- Inc. ria Brown-Douglas, who is for Katz during the primary • Victoria Brown-Douglas, • Joshua Glick, Esq. - Queens en's Equal Justice Project • M. Jane Stanicki - Hour black, has criticized a rela- campaign. Esq. - Lawyer's Guild of the Law Associates • Hugh H. Mo, Esq. - Former Children, Inc. Opinion Candidate Bloomberg and the delayed apology By Marcia Moxam president. He would get us eryone else for that matter. versation. However, it seems Comrie right back into the Paris Other health policies in- disingenuous to have waited Special to the Eagle Agreement, which Trump cluded the banning of trans until he’s on the verge of a Former New York City took us out of shortly after fat in restaurants as well as national campaign to start Mayor Michael Bloomberg taking office. One of his calorie count so diners can apologizing. He should have has flirted with running for biggest accomplishments make informed food choic- realized the harm that policy president for years, and this as mayor was the greening es. If some of these poli- was doing to our commu- might finally be the year he of New York, both literally cies sound dictatorial, they nity and at least monitored does it. with the planting of more were, but for many, it was it more closely to ensure it You don’t go as far as to than 1 million new trees good public policy. He was wasn’t being abused. dispatch campaign workers across the five boroughs; a mayor concerned about the He also could have made to distant states to get you and figuratively by working health of the city and its res- his apologies at any time on the ballot to run in the with corporations and public idents. He would also fight during the six years he’s primary election if you don’t institutions to narrow their the good fight for sensible been out of office. The optics plan to run. But Bloomberg carbon footprints. gun laws, just as he has been of waiting until he’s consid- is no ordinary candidate. He He also proved his lead- doing for years in and out of ering a run for president just is financially equipped to ership upon taking office in office. On this front, he has reeks of insincerity. Going take his time. Right now he January 2002 in the after- poured tens of millions of to a mega church in Brook- has the five toes of one foot math of the 9/11 attacks. The his own money into the fight lyn or a conversation with in the water; but by early mayor and an almost entirely against the NRA and other Rev. Al Sharpton cannot Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is December he might be fully new City Council body led such interests. undo the time people spent weighing a run for president. AP Photo/John Locher, File wading in. by Speakers Gifford Miller But here’s where in jail on petty or trumped The question is, do enough and Christine Quinn, respec- Bloomberg caused a lot of up charges. It rings hollow. ly in one area. Bloomberg, and just about voters care about candidate tively, brought the city back damage: Stop and Frisk. Sharpton says he accepts the A wise retired politician everyone else on the Dem- Bloomberg to switch loyal- from the brink of financial Young Black men in partic- apology and good for him! once told me that some- ocratic side, would bring ties from anyone they may disaster setting the wheels ular were singled out for the But he does not speak for the times you hold your nose back respectability, if noth- be currently supporting? in motion to rebuild lower controversial stop and frisk rest of us. and vote. He probably ing else to the Office of the He’s not exciting. He’s a bit Manhattan and lure tourists practice by the NYPD. Af- Of course our hurt over meant this more in the leg- President. We would regain of an elitist and definitely back to a safe New York rican-American and darker- stop and frisk shouldn’t islative sense, but it’s work- respectability on the world not warm and fuzzy if that’s City. Mayor Bloomberg was hued Latino men felt they make us vote for Trump if able for elections too. In the stage, respect the value of your thing. But sitting on the also a great public health couldn’t catch a break. Bill Mike is the nominee next ‘90s the Clintons caused every human life and digni- sidelines watching “Mayor mayor. de Blasio ran on a promise to year. Bloomberg would be a lot of damage with the ty – including at the South- Pete” thriving in the polls, His policy in this area was “end the Blomberg stop and an honorable president with crime bill, but we still voted ern border. So let’s see what Mayor Mike must be feel- often met with scorn, but frisk era,” and he won and good ideas. He is a states- for them in large numbers. Bloomberg has to say if he ing he’s the more qualified in the end we are a health- kept his promise. man. He would never sell out Kamala Harris brought up really joins the race. mayor of the two. And one ier city for it. He outlawed Today, according to May- our country to further enrich Joe Biden’s record on bus- Marcia Moxam Comrie cannot argue with that. Say smoking in public spaces, or de Blasio, crime is at its himself nor win an election. ing, but we have not turned is a freelance writer from what you will about him, but including public transporta- lowest in decades. And May- He would not be tweeting away from him either. Just St. Albans, Queens. She is a Bloomberg did some good tion, restaurants, and even or Bloomberg has embarked insults nor encouraging eth- as no person is perfect, no former columnist and found- things in New York that can some sidewalks. This was, on what sounds like an apol- nic divides. In fact, on paper presidential candidate is ing editor of the Southeast be sold nationally. and continues to be a great ogy tour. I like Mike and he’s almost perfect. I would perfect. We just have to Queens PRESS. She has a Bloomberg, like Tom thing for people with respi- think he definitely has some- never dismiss his candidacy weigh the totality of their special affinity for political Stayer, would be the “green” ratory maladies — and ev- thing to add to the 2020 con- because he’s messed up bad- record. commentary.

Monday, November 25, 2019 • Queens Daily Eagle • 15 Legal, Judicial & Courthouse News Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Visit us Online Monday, November 25, 2019 @queenseagle facebook.com/queenseagle queenseagle.com Supreme Court justices remain biggest opponents of court-merger plan Appellate Justice Troutman testified that Court Merger Proposal would help diversity upstate By Rob Abruzzese ture to change the Appellate goes through, it will imme- everyone who gets elected to Queens Daily Eagle Division departments once diately increase the number the Surrogate’s Court is ac- The New York State Sen- every 10 years. of judges of color available tually qualified to sit in that ate and Assembly held their Justice Lawrence Marks, in the Supreme Court and court. second public hearing on chief administrative judge thus the Appellate Division.” “Within this consolidated, Thursday to discuss Chief for the state, opened Thurs- Opposition from enlarged Supreme Court, we Judge Janet DiFiore’s pro- day’s hearing by addressing Supreme Court justices would not ignore judicial ex- posal to merge the court sys- a lot of the points that had Nonetheless, some of the pertise and experience, and tem, going from 11 courts to been discussed in the initial biggest pushback against the we would have established three in Albany. The biggest hearing, particularly diversi- proposal came from the New divisions within the Supreme opponents of the plan remain ty, and then shifted the con- York State Surrogate’s Court Court which would include, the state’s Supreme Court versation to costs, which he Association and the Supreme undoubtedly, a probate divi- justices. said would be approximately Court Justices Association. sion,” Marks said. “If we had “New York State judges $13 million per year after the Hon. David Guy, a Surro- a judge, or judges, with par- are not OCA (Office of Court plan is fully phased in. gate’s Court justice in Bing- ticular expertise in trust and Administration) resources,” “Judicial diversity is a hamton, and president of estates practice, which is not said Hon. Deborah Karalu- very important issue, obvi- the Surrogate’s Association, always the case, of course we nas, who sits in the commer- ously,” Justice Marks said. said that he was disappointed would take advantage of the cial division in Onondaga “It’s critical to ensuring that his association was not individual expertise and ex- Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks has spoken County. “We are not OCA public trust so that we have consulted at all, consider- perience of judges.” at two public hearings this month to discuss Chief Judge employees ... We are con- credibility, and it’s been a ing how large an impact the Justice Guy stressed Janet DiFiore’s proposal to transform the 11-court system stitutional officers and our top priority for us to promote change would have on the that even though his asso- to a three-tiered system. The proposal has received mixed Surrogate’s Court. judicial independence from diversity.” ciation was left out of the reactions from judges. Eagle file photo by Andy Katz OCA, like the legislative and Justice Shirley Troutman, In New York State, judges drafting process, it hopes to executive branches, is indis- who sits in the Appellate Di- are elected to the Surrogate’s work with the chief judge to pensable to our democracy vision, Fourth Department, Court. Judges are chosen amend the proposal. and the people we serve. upstate, testified after Justice by voters for 10-year terms Justice Karalunas was “Granting OCA author- Marks and said that there is upstate and 14-year terms adamant that the proposal ity to shift judges from one no question that the proposal in New York City. Those would not do as has been position or jurisdiction to would improve diversity up- judges sit on that bench and suggested. She explained another endangers the free- state where the lack of it is they cannot be removed by that the often-cited situa- dom that judges must have much more pronounced than OCA. In smaller districts tions in which people might to make unpopular decisions in New York City. upstate, some Surrogate’s have to go to two or three when the facts and existing “Because only an elected Court judges help out in courts to handle some is- law compel it,” continued Supreme Court justice may other courts, but they are sues — such as a person who Justice Karalunas, president be appointed to the Appellate not transferred out of those would have to bring related of the Association of Justices Division, the result is that a courts and continue to hear custody, divorce and domes- of the Supreme Court of New truly diverse Appellate Divi- all Surrogate’s Court cases. tic violence cases in three York State. sion is not attainable under Under the proposal, OCA separate courts — is actual- The proposal that was current New York State law could theoretically assign a ly a problem of OCA’s own put forth by the chief judge and it shows,” Justice Trout- newly elected Surrogate’s making that could be solved would replace the current man said. “Out of 12 jus- Court judge to different without such sweeping re- 11-court system with a tices serving on the Fourth courts within the Supreme form. three-tiered system. This Department, I am the only Court. This could potentially “Unlike the commercial would include a merger of judge of color ... It’s worse in happen either right away, or division where I sit, OCA has the Court of Claims, Family the Third Department. In the after a judge makes an un- not developed uniform rules, Court, Surrogate’s Court and entire history of that depart- popular ruling. protocols and procedures the various county courts ment there has only been one “This proposal changes to make for faster, smarter, into one Supreme Court. judge of color ... and she is the decision of who pre- cheaper Family Court litiga- For the most part, this from the Bronx.” sides in our court from the tion,” Justice Karalunas said. would not change the way Justice Troutman called citizens who elect us to ap- She also was skeptical that judges are selected, except the problem partly systemic pointed administrators in the the proposal would actually upstate where judges run- because upstate cities, like OCA,” said Justice Guy. “We improve diversity at all be- ning for the Supreme Court Syracuse, are included with should serve in the court we cause it wouldn’t change the would be able to run county- many rural counties in judi- were elected to. It could be appointment process. Eighty wide instead of districtwide. cial districts. This dilutes the argued that this is effective- percent of appointed admin- This change was often cited vote in those cities so that ly disenfranchisement of our istrative judges outside of in hearings on Thursday and rural candidates often easily constituents with respect to New York City are white and the prior week as one that win elections. the decisions they make with 70 percent are male. would improve diversity in “When I ran for Supreme respect to our courts.” “We urge the legislature Hon. Shirley Troutman, Appellate Division, Fourth upstate courts. Court, I had to run in eight Justice Marks had ex- to leave our constitutional Department, spoke at the public hearing to say that The proposal would also counties that were mostly plained earlier that OCA court structure principally under the current law, true diversity is not possible in the eliminate the constitutional rural,” she explained. “This would take into account spe- intact, focusing only on what third and fourth Appellate Division departments. She cap of one judge per 50,000 proposal allows county judg- cializations by judges when needs fixing, in a restrained, explained that Chief Judge DiFiore’s proposal is just one people in a district and it es to become part of the Su- assigning them. However, circumspect manner,” she way the courts should work to change that. would authorize the legisla- preme Court. If the proposal he left open the idea that not said. Photo courtesy of the Office of Court Administration

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