Bamboomoves Yoga reports that a trial version of a Forest Hills Green Market will take place during the street fair on October 4. It will start at 10am and location has yet to be determined. Call 718-263-0788 to more info. [via FoHi]
The Church c. 1930 (Church in the Gardens website photo)
The Church in the Gardens [50 Ascan Avenue] has been nominated to the state and national Register of Historic Places by the New York State Board for Historic Preservation on Sept. 15, the Queens Chronicle reports:
Queens Chronicle: The state and national registers are official lists of buildings, structures, districts, landscapes, objects and sites significant in the history, architecture, archeology and culture of New York and the nation.
The state Parks Department lists nearly 90,000 historic buildings, structures and sites throughout the state, individually or as components of historic districts. Property owners, municipalities and organizations from communities throughout the state sponsor the nominations.
Once the recommendations are approved by the state historic preservation officer, the properties are listed on the New York State Register of Historic Places and then nominated to the National Register of Historic Places, where they are reviewed.
Once approved, they are entered on the National Register.
Read more about the church’s history here.
Flickr photo by joe shlabotnik
The Windsor condos from Continental Avenue.
The NY Daily News reports that more than 7, 200 classes in NYC school’s are over the limit allowed by its contract with the teacher’s union. One Forest Hills High student tells his story:
NY Daily News: More than 7,200 classes are over the limit set in the teachers union contract, the union says.
“In my science research class, there are some kids sitting behind the blackboard,” said Renzo Meza, a freshman at Forest Hills High School, which has 384 classes with more than the 34-student limit for high schools.
“They have to come in front and kneel down to take notes.”
High schools in Queens have the most crowded conditions, with 26 having more than 34 kids per class, the report said.
The NY Daily News reports on a strange case of arson and assault allegedly perpetrated by a man from Forest Hills:
NY Daily News: A crazed Queens man set fire to the home of a couple he knew and then returned to the scene to brutally beat the woman before mowing down the cops who chased him.
Vipan Chander, 49, was captured Tuesday after he returned to the Forest Hills home on 64th Avenue that he allegedly torched the same day, police said.
Queens Family Court Judge Linda Tally dealt another blow for justice against Mazoltuv Borukhova, who hired a hit-man to kill her husband, by declaring her 6 year old daughter Michelle Malakov an abused child. The NY Daily News reports:
Tally ruled that Borukhova demonstrated “impaired understanding of the duties of parenthood.”
The sinister Bourukhova was convicted in March of hiring a relative to kill her husband, dentist Daniel Malakov in 2007. The couple were divorced and Malakov had been awarded custory of Michelle. The young father was shot dead while his daughter looked on at the Annadale Playground on 64th Road.
Both Bourukhova and the killer, Mikhail Mallayev were sentenced to life in prison.
The NY Daily News reported in April that Bourukhova has retained Alan Dershowitz to appeal her conviction.
She’s Baaaaaak! Koslowitz Winz Demz Primary in CD 29 and Iz Talkin’ Boulevard of Death
Everything old is new again – Karen Koslowitz is on her way back to the NYC Council and she’s talking about [wait for it] THE BOULEVARD OF DEATH.
Queens Chronicle: Karen Koslowitz claimed victory on Tuesday night in a tight race marred by low voter turnout.
The former councilwoman beat rival Lynn Schulman by 241 votes in the City Council District 29 Democratic primary, according to the Board of Elections. Koslowitz received 1,834 of the nearly 7,000 votes cast.Koslowitz, who preceded Councilwoman Melinda Katz (D-Forest Hills) before being term limited out of office in 2001, offered few details on her short-term agenda, saying she plans to work on legislation without specifying which issues the potential bills would address. Barring a surprise write-in contender, she will reclaim her former seat in January.
…Koslowitz also promised to work closely with the Department of Transportation to ensure that busy intersections have enough traffic lights.
“There have been minimal deaths on Queens Boulevard in the last nine years, but one death is too many,” she said.
Queens gazette
The Queens Gazette has a captivating video of Mayor Bloomberg and former Mayor Ed Koch campaigning this week on Continental Avenue. [Note: if you cats at the Gazette need some help with the "internet" call us!]
Queens Gazette: During his campaigns for public office, former Mayor Ed Koch frequently made major announcements in Queens at the 71st-Continental Avenue stop in Forest Hills on the R, E, F and V subway lines—his “lucky subway stop”, as he calls it. On Wednesday, September 16, he demonstrated his belief that his luck would hold—and extend to another person—by making his first public appearance since his recent heart attack at the stop with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at his side.
NY Times Photo
The NY Times’ Ruth Fremson caught this precious moment of poll worker Robert Livingston chillaxin’ between two voting booths today at P.S. 220. Voter turnout has been very light for today’s primaries, reports say.
There are some dead folks registered to vote in today’s primary. In old-timey gangland Chicago? Nope, right here in the 29th NYC Council District according to the NY Post:
NY Post: Officials say those voter-registration forms were among 1,913 delivered to the Queens board between Aug. 3 and 17 by Lilianna Zulunova, campaign manager for Albert Cohen, one of six candidates running to succeed Councilwoman Melinda Katz (D-Queens) in today’s Democratic primary election…
… Zulunova insisted that Cohen’s campaign, which conducted the first exhaustive voter-registration drive in the Bukharan Jewish community, had nothing to do with any fake registrations.
“If they’re dead, they’re no good to me — they can’t vote,” she declared.
