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32 The Queens Courier • JUNE 15, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com 32 THE QUEENS COURIER • JUNE 15, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM sun THE QUEENS editorial WWW.COURIERSUN.COM PUBLISHER & EDITOR CO-PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF VP, EVENTS, WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA ART DIRECTOR SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS ASSISTANT TO PUBLISHER CLASSIFIED MANAGER CONTROLLER PRESIDENT & CEO VICE PRESIDENT VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS BOB BRENNAN ROBERT POZARYCKI AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ NIRMAL SINGH EMILY DAVENPORT KATRINA MEDOFF, ANTHONY GIUDICE, ANGELA MATUA SUZANNE MONTEVERDI CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI DEBORAH CUSICK CELESTE ALAMIN MARIA VALENCIA VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS Schneps Communications, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 718-224-5863 • Fax 718-224-5441 www.qns.com editorial e-mail: [email protected] for advertising e-mail: [email protected] Entire Contents Copyright 2017 by The Queens Courier All sent to THE QUEENS COURIER should be brief and to condensing. Writers should include full address and home and offi ce telephone numbers, where available, as well as affi liation, indicating special interest. Anonymous letters are not printed. Name withheld on request. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, AS WELL AS OP-ED PIECES IN NO WAY REFLECT THE PAPER’S POSITION. No such ad or any part thereof may be reproduced without prior permission of THE QUEENS COURIER. The publishers will not be responsible for any error in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Errors must be reported to THE QUEENS COURIER within fi ve days of publication. Ad position cannot be guaranteed unless paid prior to publication. Schneps Communications assumes no liability for the content or reply to any ads. The advertiser assumes all liability for the content of and all replies. The advertiser agrees to hold THE QUEENS COURIER and its employees harmless from all cost, expenses, liabilities, and damages resulting from or caused by the publication or recording placed by the advertiser or any reply to any such advertisement. SUMMER IN THE FLUSHING MEADOWS SPRINKLER // PHOTO VIA TWITTER @NYPD110PCT Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! To submit them to us, tag @queenscourier on Instagram, visit our Facebook page, tweet @QNS or email [email protected] (subject: Queens Snaps). Don’t halt progress at Willets Point Plans to redevelop the industrial wasteland known as Willets Point are nearly a decade old, and there’s little progress to show for it despite the passage of time. Aft er many protests and much legal maneuvering, the city acquired in recent months a number of former auto body shops and junkyards on 126th Street, across from Citi Field, and demolished them. You can view the progress (if one could call it that) rather easily from the ballpark’s food court the next time you see a Mets game. Where the project goes from there remains relatively uncertain, and that uncertainty grew last week aft er the New York State Court of Appeals ruled in a lawsuit that the developers could not transform part of the Citi Field parking lot — which was once Shea Stadium and is considered parkland — into a billion-dollar mega mall known as Willets West. Queens state Senator Tony Avella was among those who fi led the lawsuit blocking the project. Th e Willets West proposal could eventually become a reality anyway, but that would require the state legislature to pass a bill permitting the acquisition of parkland there for such purposes. Who knows how long that process would take should the city and the Queens Development Group — the development team looking to transform the entire Willets Point area — pursue it. In the meantime, as the power brokers deliberate their next move, Willets Point on the eastern side of Citi Field lies in “waste.” Th e de Blasio administration indicated that it still supports creating Queens’ newest neighborhood there — with a keen eye on creating potentially thousands of new aff ordable housing units in a city desperate for new residential real estate. Th e city has already gone through costly litigation and acquisition at Willets Point, and there’s more money to be spent in environmental cleanups and building the sewer infrastructure that never existed in its past. Regardless of the mighty task ahead and the Willets West plan’s defeat, the march of progress there should not be halted. Th e de Blasio administration should take the lead and defi ne a vision for Willets Point — one that focuses primarily on making it an aff ordable residential neighborhood with a mix of housing types. Th ere’s plenty of potential for 126th Street to become a hub of economic activity with an array of stores, offi ces and restaurants across the street from Citi Field. To paraphrase a line from one of the most popular baseball movies of all time, “If you build it, people will come.” STORY: Dine at these restaurants to retrace Anthony Bourdain’s footsteps on ‘Parts Unknown’ in Queens SUMMARY: This is a complete rundown of every restaurant that Anthony Bourdain visited during the episode of ‘Parts Unknown’ that highlighted eateries in Queens. REACH: 46,465 people (as of 5/30/17) Publisher & E ditor Victoria Schneps-Yunis Co-Publisher Joshua A. Schneps Associate Publisher Bob Brennan E ditor-In-Chief Robert Pozarycki VP, Events, Web & Social Media Amy Amato-Sanchez Art Director Nirmal Singh S ocial Media Manager Emily Davenport S taff Reporters Katrina Medoff, Anthony Giudice, Angela Matua Suzanne Monteverdi Contributing Reporters Cliff Kasden, Samantha Sohmer, Elizabeth Aloni Assistant to Publisher Deborah Cusick Classified Manager Celeste Alamin Controller Maria Valencia President & CEO Victoria Schneps-Yunis Vice President Joshua A. Schneps Schneps Communications, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 718-224-5863 • Fax 718-224-5441 www.qns.com editorial e-mail: [email protected] for advertising e-mail: [email protected] Entire Contents Copyright 2017 by The Courier Sun All letters sent to THE COURIER SUN should be brief and are subject to condensing. Writers should include a full address and home and office telephone numbers, where available, as well as affiliation, indicating special interest. Anonymous letters are not printed. Name withheld on request. No such ad or any part thereof may be reproduced without prior permission of THE COURIER SUN. The publishers will not be responsible for any error in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Errors must be reported to THE COURIER SUN within five days of publication. Ad position cannot be guaranteed unless paid prior to publication. VIctoria Media Services assumes no liability for the content or reply to any ads. The advertiser assumes all liability for the content of and all replies. The advertiser agrees to hold The Courier SUN and its employees harmless from all cost, expenses, liabilities, and damages resulting from or caused by the publication or recording placed by the advertiser or any reply to any such advertisement.


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