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LARGEST AUDITED COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER • LITTLE NECK LEDGER IN QUEENS • WHITESTONE TIMES Oct. 9–15, 2015 Your Neighborhood — Your News® FREE ALSO COVERING AUBURNDALE, COLLEGE POINT, DOUGLASTON, GLEN OAKS, FLORAL PARK Hit-and-run City honors the Matinecock sparks rally Native Long Island tribe recognized at former burial ground in Little Neck in Flushing BY TOM MOMBERG BY MADINA TOURE Northern Boulevard now also bears the name of Long Following a fatal hit-and- Island’s Matinecock Native run accident early Sunday American Tribe following a morning at College Point Bou- street co-naming ceremony in levard and Roosevelt Avenue Little Neck Monday. in Flushing, elected officials The Matinecock people and community leaders are were hunters and fishermen calling for improved safety who settled the island in the and awareness in the area. late 1600s, around the same At about 1:09 a.m., police time Europeans began arriv- responded to a call of a pedes- ing in the area. trian hit by a vehicle near 40- The street co-naming was 05 College Point Blvd. the culmination of an effort Upon arrival, officers dis- by the Bayside Historical So- covered Mariano Contreras, ciety and the descendants of 41, of Corona, unconscious and the tribe, who worked to get unresponsive in the street, po- recognition for the tribe along lice said. At a rally Tuesday in with Councilman Paul Vallone front of the Bland Houses at (D-Bayside), Assemblyman Ed 40-21 College Point Blvd., state Braunstein (D-Bayside), Com- Sen. Ron Kim (D-Flushing) munity Board 11, the Doug- suggested making improve- laston-Little Neck Commu- ments, such as a pedestrian nity Library and several other bridge and stronger penalties community partners. in hit-and-run cases. “Today we honor their leg- “We’re going to get so much acy as a noble and harmonious more foot traffic in the next people who remain our neigh- five to 10 years,” Kim said. bors,” Vallone said. State Sen. Toby Stavisky The Matinecock are a (D-Flushing) noted that Flush- branch of the Algonquin Indi- ing does not have one block an Nation, and once inhabited without scaffolding and said villages where Flushing, Col- that Albany has to come up lege Point, Bayside and Doug- with more traffic laws. She laston now stand. also noted that “pedestrians “We in this community, we and drivers alike have a re- are very proud of our neigh- sponsibility to obey the traffic Just before the new sign on Northern Boulevard and Marathon Parkway is unveiled, Chief Little Fox blesses borhoods. But it’s important Continued on Page 62 the ground where the Matinecock Tribe made its last stand. Photo by Michael Shain Continued on Page 62 Flushing marches against assault BY MADINA TOURE More than 30 organizations This year’s theme was “I joined KAFSC as partners in march because…” Elected of- The Korean American Fam- the silent march, which sought ficials, community partners ily Service Center hosted the to raise awareness about do- and community members com- 18th annual March Against mestic violence. The march pleted this sentence as a way of Domestic Violence last week started in front of the 109th sharing their reasons for par- The Korean American Family Service Center held its in downtown Flushing in com- Precinct at 37-05 Union St. and ticipating in the march. 18th annual silent domestic violence march last week. memoration of Domestic Vio- concluded at the Flushing Li- KAFSC is a non-profit or- Photo courtesy of Korean American Family Service Center lence Awareness Month. brary at 41-17 Main St. Continued on Page 62 A CNG Publication Vol. 81 No. 41 68 total pages Public review begins Whitestone woman New high school in Bayside requires community input missing since Sept. BY MADINA TOURE appearance, Beau Dietl & BY TOM MOMBERG Associates discovered that The husband of a Whites- Brabazon received a parking A visit by Councilman Paul tone woman who went miss- summons on 202nd Street in Vallone (D-Bayside) to Com- ing in early September, along the vicinity of 19th and 21st munity Board 11’s monthly with the private investigator avenues for an expired in- meeting Monday sparked looking into her disappear- spection. a heated discussion among ance, spoke at a news confer- She then visited a local gas board members about an on- ence held at state Sen. Tony station on the Utopia Park- going proposal for a new high Avella’s (D-Bayside) district way to inspect her vehicle. school in Bayside. office Tuesday afternoon. After that, she visited a BJ’s The May announcement Maria Brabazon, 55, was Warehouse in Whitestone that the city School Construc- last seen Sept. 5 at 2:54 p.m. where surveillance footage tion Authority was to pur- when she was observed by placed her at the checkout at chase the one-acre site of the a neighbor’s home surveil- about 11:17 a.m. Bayside Jewish Center, 203-5 lance camera walking on The private investigators 32nd Ave., provoked immedi- 14th Avenue toward the in- provided several images of ate criticism as inappropriate tersection of 152nd Street in Brabazon from several per- in a residential area near Bay- Whitestone. spectives as well as a detailed side High School with already Councilman Paul Vallone tries to address some residents' concerns re- The 109th Precinct Detec- account of her last known high traffic volume. garding a proposed high school during Community Board 11's October tive Squad and Missing Per- whereabouts. The potential scale of the meeting. Photo by Tom Momberg sons Unit launched an inves- Beau Dietl & Associates building is one of the biggest tigation in collaboration with have since conducted an ex- concerns. There are fears that that selection and the contract ings, in the second and fourth Beau Dietl & Associates. tensive search of the public it would shadow neighboring has been signed, either we are weeks of October, were yet to Brabazon’s husband, Pe- and park areas in and around buildings and lead to more out of the process or we are in be determined. ter, said that her family is the Throgs Neck Bridge, congested traffic. the process. Either they decide In its five-year capital praying for her safety. including Little Bay Park, Some elected officials are or we decide.” plan, the DOE cited the need “I’d like to say that we all Clear Bay Park Golf Course trying to amend the city’s The SCA finalized its pur- for 5,000 new seats in Queens. love her, we miss her and we and open areas adjacent to school site selection process chase of the site, at which it is Construction for 3,000 of those need her and we want her Fort Totten. to include public input before proposing to add at least 700 seats has already been funded, home,” Brabazon said at the Dietl said that the family finalizing a purchase. high school seats, in early Sep- including the 700 at the pro- news conference at 38-50 Bell is offering a $10,000 reward to But in response to a public tember. posed 32nd Avenue site, ac- Blvd. anyone who can provide in- outcry, the SCA pushed back But like any real estate pur- cording to the plan. The morning of her dis- formation about Brabazon’s its 45-day public review period chase, the deal requires a clos- Bayside schools are over- whereabouts. to begin this past Tuesday, ing. That will not happen until crowded. Frustrated with con- “There is no reason for us giving CB11 the opportunity the conclusion of the public re- tradicting school enrollment to believe that she can’t be to review the proposal and the view period, for which 45 days statistics from all sides of the found or that she isn’t alive,” corresponding environmental is a minimum. issue, board member Janet Dietl said. impact study to include poten- A public meeting must be McEneaney asked that the SCA Avella said that the 109th tial impact on traffic while the held within that window. That be more transparent and open Precinct has been working school year is in session. meeting has been scheduled to the idea of using the site for diligently on the case. Vallone said the SCA’s will- to take up the duration of the an elementary school, seats for “I spoke to the deputy ingness to include the commu- next CB11 meeting Monday, which are just as in demand as inspector and they are re- nity’s input for the proposed Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m.