• 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 July 25–31, 2014 Your Neighborhood - Your News® FREE ALSO COVERING ELMHURST, JACKSON HEIGHTS, LONG ISLAND CITY, MASPETH, MIDDLE VILLAGE, REGO PARK, SUNNYSIDE Katz, mayor fi re eight Visit us online Latino fest of 19 library trustees TimesLedger.com returns Page 16 QGuide Page 39 Pioneer Ferraro DHS shelters children from rally remembered in daughter’s fi lm Dromm sits out Pan Am demonstration because of racial overtones this month BY BILL PARRY shelter June 6. two sides shouted angry taunts at to the movies. BY ALEX ROBINSON The crowd was half the size each other. “We’re moving these kids Protesters returned to of the previous two rallies, with Fearing a repeat of that from hate. We have to get them Exactly 30 years after Geral- Elmhurst’s Pan American Hotel police estimating the number episode, the city Department of out of here,” DHS spokesman dine Ferraro became the first fe- Tuesday for a third rally against at about 550 people. The protest Homeless Services arranged for Christopher Miller said. male vice presidential nominee of the city since it converted the was less vitriolic than a town four school buses to take 200 of The families went to see a major American political party, 216-unit building into a homeless hall meeting June 30, when the the homeless children and adults Continued on Page 54 her daughter Donna Zaccaro felt her mother’s story was just as im- portant as it ever was. The producer and filmmaker COLOMBIAN INDEPENDENCE recently released a documentary chronicling the trajectory of her trailblazing mother’s career, from her beginnings as a Queens teacher to her apex as Walter Mondale’s running mate. “Even though this is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done personally and professionally, I’m really glad I did it,” Zaccaro told a packed room at a screening of the film, “Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way,” hosted by the Queens County Young Democrats at St. John’s University Tuesday evening. Ferraro was born in New- burgh, N.Y., and grew up in an Italian-American family. She later moved to Forest Hills to live with her Queens husband, John Zaccaro, and worked as a teacher before deciding to go to law school. She then worked as an assistant district attorney in Queens for four years before she ran for Congress in 1978. She quickly rose through A stilt walker waves the Colombian flag at the FolkColombia celebration held at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. See more photos on Page 20. the Democratic Party’s hierarchy Photo by Ken Maldonado Continued on Page 49 A CNG Publication Vol. 2 No. 30 60 total pages 2 TL Halloran chatty on stand MTA shuts down G COM . Indicted ex-pol says alleged bribes were fees for legal consulting subway line in LIC TIMESLEDGER BY BILL PARRY while corrosion on rails BY SARINA TRANGLE and fasteners increased the More subway service potential for delay-causing Daniel Halloran may shutdowns are on the way failures. be the most talkative wit- for Long Island City. The controls for ven- 25–31, 2014 2014 25–31, ness in his federal corrup- G line service will be tilation, lighting and com- ULY tion trial. suspended for five consecu- munications systems were , J Contending prosecu- tive weeks beginning Fri- all destroyed and have yet tors took his comments out day night at 10:30 p.m., ac- to be restored to their level EDGER L of context and failed to cording to the Metropolitan of pre-Sandy reliability. IMES T understand he was legally Transportation Authority. “Our goal is to com- acting as a political consul- Fix & Fortify Sandy plete this work as quickly tant, the former Republican Recovery Work is return- and efficiently as possible city councilman has spent ing to the Greenpoint Tube while exposing our cus- several days on the witness that connects Court Square tomers to as little inconve- stand detailing precisely with Nassau Avenue in nience as we possibly can what he meant in hours of Brooklyn. The tunnel suf- by using the more lightly conversations secretly re- fered extensive damage traveled summer weeks to corded by undercover FBI during Sandy when more make repairs,” New York agents and a cooperating than 3 million gallons of City Transit President witness. saltwater flooded the tube Carmen Bianco said. “To Halloran is on trial for at the height of the storm. that end, we are providing allegedly acting as a power Tracks and equipment an extraordinary amount broker in what prosecutors were totally submerged, of information to help our described as an elaborate and the tunnel’s pump con- customers navigate around ploy by state Sen. Malcolm trols, electrical, communi- this vital work.” Smith (D-Hollis) to bribe cations, fan control and sig- The MTA will provide his way onto the GOP ticket nal equipment all incurred free shuttle buses during in the 2013 mayoral elec- serious damage. Power ca- the duration of the work tions. Former City Councilman Daniel Halloran (l.) remains on the witness stand in his federal corruption bles immersed in saltwater linking the closed stops. Prosecutors maintain trial. corroded from the inside, Continued on Page 35 Halloran received about $20,500 for negotiating Halloran, wearing tors said Halloran was re- help refinance his mort- Smith’s deals with borough dark suits, bright ties and corded saying. “You can’t gage amid a divorce. GOP leaders and requested a staple American flag pin, do anything without the f-- The Republican also that he be named the deputy often turned toward jurors -ing money.” took issue with prosecu- police commissioner if the and spoke rapidly while The ex-legislator said tors’ understandings of southeast Queens senator rhapsodizing about ev- he was upset that his oppo- over-the-counter and un- made it to Gracie Mansion. erything from his lifelong nent, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng der-the-counter offers he In another alleged relationship with the Boy (D-Flushing), had amassed made. scheme, prosecutors said Scouts to the intricacies of a large campaign war chest Prosecutors previously Halloran agreed to direct election law. while he struggled to raise played a recording of Hal- city discretionary funding Halloran said the gov- money for his 2012 congres- loran’s meeting with Stern to Moses Stern, a wealthy ernment misinterpreted sional run. Jan. 17, 2013, in the Francis developer cooperating with his statements during a “I was angry that this Lewis Pastry Shoppe in the the government, and an FBI September 2012 meeting is what politics had come Broadway section of Flush- agent posing as his busi- with Stern, where prosecu- down to,” he said. ing. ness partner in exchange tors allege Halloran accept- Halloran described the “Is Vince difficult to for $24,800 in donations for ed a cash bribe. money as a loan and person- get on board?” Stern asked, his own failed congressio- “That’s politics, it’s all al favor from Stern, which according to a transcript of G line subway service shuts down for five consecutive weeks be- nal bid. about how much,” prosecu- would boost his credit and Continued on Page 35 ginning Friday night. 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Annual Scholar- cially.” “It’s a lot of work,” she said. As a scholarship recipient, TIMESLEDGER ships recipients, a program that Oyo, who graduated from “But it’s a worthy cause.” Oyo was a mentor for three col- awards scholarships to 12 stu- the Business, Computer Appli- This year the fifth annual lege students, two from his SUNY .