Mandala has just published a new ebook called From Warm Heart to Warm Heart: The Transmission of Dharma in the Modern World.
The ebook contains seventeen interviews about the transmission of Dharma, published by Mandala between 1982 and 2017. While all have been previously published, many, never digitized, have until now existed only in long-forgotten print editions.
Included are interviews with Lama Yeshe, Geshe Lhundub Sopa, and Yangsi Rinpoche as well as with distinguished scholars, practitioners, and teachers like Ven. Thubten Chodron, Ven. Antonio Satta, Jeffrey Hopkins, Thupten Jinpa, Georges Dreyfus, Robert Thurman, Anne Klein, John Dunne, and Roger Jackson. As a group, these thinkers provide fascinating insights into the diverse challenges of transmitting the Dharma from its traditional Tibetan setting into the modern world.
The ebook is downloadable in three formats—MOBI for Amazon's Kindle devices, EPUB for other e-readers, iPads and tablets, and as a PDF—so that you can read it on all of your electronic devices, including your laptop or desktop computer.
The ebook is available as benefit to Friends of FPMT at the e-Friends level and higher and to Mandala magazine's center packages subscribers. In becoming a Friend, you support the FPMT International Office and its wide-ranging Dharma activities. The ebook can also be purchased through the FPMT Foundation Store, Amazon's Kindle store, and will soon be available through Apple's iBooks, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Aldiko, Overdrive, and other ebook outlets.


The Victorinox Gardener is a 100mm Swiss Army Knife from Victorinox with only a single sheepsfoot blade that has a chisel-grind edge.
It is commonly sold with red or black nylon scales and aluminum liners, but was available in a premium version with brass liners at one time.
The ecoline version is also sold under the name Floral Knife, but there does not seem to be any difference between the knives.
Available as an Ecoline model with aluminum liners and red nylon scales. An older version was available that used Brass liners in both Red and Black Nylon scales. The Gardener is also available in a left handed version.
There is nearly identical model that has a Wharncliffe style blade. It's not known to have a unique name, but was identified as Horticultural model 19-030 (1.9030) at one time.
The Twine Knife model is nearly identical adding just a keyring attachment to the tools. This model may have different names in the different markets, and appears more often marketed with the Kitchen knife line. A serrated-blade version of the Twine Knife may have also been available, but this is unconfirmed.
The Gardener may also be available with a serrated blade, but this is unconfirmed.
In 2010 Victorinox introduced some bright colored handles in the European Markets (violet, blue, green, and pink). In Germany these are known as the Blumenmesser. These knives have fairly thin aluminum liners.
In 2011 Victorinox introduced a Canary Yellow Floral knife in North America.
Early knives had brass liners, so there may be some red nylon scaled knives that are not part of the Ecoline. Victorinox over the years has manufactured several knives for the horticultural industry, this knife is one is probably the most popular of the current reduced line of offerings. Work knives for the horticultural industry is a significant part of the company's long history.
40560 US Model: Twine Knife/Gardener with keyring.
1.9030 Victorinox: Horticultural knife with Wharncliff blade, brass liners, and black nylon scales. May also have SAB identifier 40564, or model number written as 19-030.
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spring-summer 2009 ready-to-wear show
The rue Cambon moves to the heart of the Grand Palais
For the 2009 Spring-Summer show, Karl Lagerfeld rebuilt the façade of 31 rue Cambon, under the huge skylight of the Grand Palais, on a one to one scale. There was one important change: the street, made famous by Mademoiselle Chanel, is no longer parallel to the house but faces it and leads to it. The designer explains: this spectacular decor is not an exact replica; it is an idealization, a conceptual reconstruction. The backdrop of the show is the movie set and the show is like a short movie with models playing the part of Parisian ladies. "It's just like a Hollywood view," says Karl Lagerfeld.
In 1921, Mademoiselle Chanel set up her house in the center of Paris, at 31 rue Cambon. Her two-storey apartment is still in this building: four rooms filled with meticulously well-preserved treasures. There are also the Haute Couture salons that Mademoiselle Chanel would use for her shows and which Karl Lagerfeld redesigned according to the original feel. The three Haute Couture ateliers remain at the top of the building.
Starting point - uptown girl
Here is a sneak preview of selected images of the "Starting Point 2009", the beginning of the Spring-Summer collection: a very chic "Uptown New York"…
(In stores this January)
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Versailles as seen by karl lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld's exhibition of photos of the Château de Versailles and its gardens has just ended, but his project continues. The designer and photographer intends to publish a book. The profit of the sales of this book will contribute to the restoration of this heritage. The success of this exhibition must have a true meaning in the subconscious of French history, which appreciates Karl Lagerfeld's original point of view. He focuses less on the well-known architectural splendor and the monarchic glory, and more on the sad sculptures, whirling alleys and the obscure ponds: the viewers of this vanished world locked in a silence of stone.
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Mobile art in new york
After Hong Kong and Tokyo, the futuristic pavilion built by Zaha Hadid for CHANEL will arrive in New York on October 20th.
This itinerant contemporary art exhibition will open its doors to the public in the heart of Central Park, on the Rumsey Playfield, just by 70th Street. Karl Lagerfeld did not choose this location randomly. Central Park is the only gigantic natural space, where one can take a walk and breathe in a city that is dedicated to the "culture of congestion": condensed architecture, rationalization, repetition, systematism, verticality… The flawless and organic architecture of the Mobile Art pavilion will encounter the park's natural design and contrast with the New York architecture that comes out through the foliage.
Coincidentally, the opening of Mobile Art in New York will take place at the same time as the park's 150th anniversary. The exhibition admission is free upon request via Internet. The New York edition of "CHANEL Mobile Art" magazine will be given to each visitor.
For more information, visit www.chanel-mobileart.com
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Assuming your mobile carrier offers an international call plan, using your cell phone overseas can be hugely expensive. However, it's easier and cheaper than ever to stay connected in Costa Rica since its mobile network providers began rolling out 4G early this year.
On arrival at the airport (or a bunch of other places around the country), you can buy a pre-paid SIM card that you can recharge easily. Your phone must be a quad-band and unlocked (most U.S. carriers offer expansive phones that are programmed to work only with their network; hence they are locked to the company providing cell service).
At the airport, only Kölbi (that is the name of the State phone and power company, formerly ICE) SIMs are available. Other carriers—MoviStar and Claro—also sell SIMs so try other places. Some phones (iPhones and others) use a half-sized SIM, and if you use an iPad and iPhone, it has to be unlocked. The vendor will cut the SIM to size; just test it before you pay.
If your cell is locked, it's possible to unlock it using a software code, if you can find the IMEI number. Then you can then use any local data network or calling plan. Avoid cheap disposable cell phones; service is often horrible. If you need reliable service, get a 3G or 4G phone with a good pre-paid SIM installed or, rent one while in Costa Rica.
Coverage isn't universal in Costa Rica. The best network coverage is in and around San José, Guanacaste and along the Pacific coast from Puntarenas to just south of Quepos. Up/download rates for all carriers are about equal.
If you are going to be driving in Costa Rica, we absolutely recommend using WAZE navegation app. It works really well in Costa Rica!


> services.  But that's not really a new problem being introduced by EC2.
just because some shared IP's are sometimes used abusively.
the interpretive choice between "IP repututation systems were already doomed"
and "IP reputation services are now doomed" does not puzzle me overmuch.


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Thanks for the Memory
D.W. Harding
The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
by A.R. Luria
Basic Books, 160 pp., $4.95
Not only was the subject of this book a prodigy, a man with a memory so "good" as to be pathological, but the book too is a portent in the present state of scientific psychology. Professor Luria was prominently associated with the psychoanalytic movement in Russia in the days before official opinion had established that Freud was a bad thing, but his psychological work since then, highly respected in the Soviet Union and the West, has been ideologically blameless. His studies of language, thought, and conflict have been experimental, and the title of his best known book, Higher Cortical Functions in Man, has the true Pavlovian ring. Yet now without hesitation or apology he plunges in among mentalistic concepts galore—images, fantasies, sensations, perceptions, desires, emotions, attention—and the study not only includes introspections but entirely depends on them. You might be reading a psychological report of 1905, but here it is, written in 1965, and now warmly endorsed by Jerome Bruner of Harvard. The fact is that currently respectable terminology and method would not have served, and a purist experimenter determined to countenance no departure from the objective and "measureable" would have thrown away an immense opportunity.
Luria's subject, S., was a journalist, sent to the psychological laboratory by an editor who discovered his freakish memory; but during the period of the observation, begun in the 1920s when he was just under thirty and continued off and on until his death almost thirty years later, he tried several jobs and ended up a mnemonist, giving performances in which members of the audience provided long lists of material of all kinds which he could memorize after one hearing and reproduce with only very rare mistakes. Luria's early experiments with him showed that it was futile to try to establish limits to the length of lists that S. could memorize, and—even more astonishing—that there appeared to be no decay of the memory with time:
In fact, some of these experiments designed to test his retention were performed (without his being given any warning) fifteen or sixteen years after the session in which he had originally recalled the words. Yet invariably they were successful. During these test sessions S. would sit with his eyes closed, pause, then comment: "Yes, yes…. This was a series you gave me once when we were in your apartment…. You were sitting at the table and I in the rocking chair…. You were wearing a gray suit and you looked at me like this…. Now, then, I can see you saying…." And with that he would reel off the series precisely as I had given it to him at the earlier session. If one takes into account that S. had by then become a well-known mnemonist, who had to remember hundreds and thousands of series, the feat seems even more remarkable.
Indeed at one time, slightly worried that he might confuse a list just given him with one of his innumerable series from past performances, S. tried writing down some of his lists in the effort to forget them.
Given these findings, Luria understandably concentrated not on how much and how long S. could remember but how he did it. When S. memorized a list of nouns, he needed a few seconds' pause after each item; this gave S. time to get a visual image of the object and set it at a particular point in an imagined background, commonly at intervals along a familiar street. Once that was done he could just walk along the street, from either end or starting at any point en route, and report the things he'd placed there. Occasional omissions (virtually his only type of mistake) occurred when he put an object against a background it merged with and simply overlooked it as he inspected the scene. He omitted "egg": "I had put it up against a white wall and it blended with the background…Banner, of course, means the Red Banner. But, you know, the building which houses the Moscow City Soviet of Workers' Deputies is also red, and since I'd put the banner close to one of the walls of the building I just walked on without seeing it…."
Once committed to working as a memory man he developed techniques for elaborating images around the material, aided by a tendency to spawn associations with extraordinary fecundity. Faced at one performance with a long list of the syllables MA, NA, SA, VA, repeated over and over again in different combinations, he managed to fix them (with one hearing) by combining them in twos or threes and then summoning up constantly fresh images based on remote personal associations and puns in several languages: Four years later he reproduced the lists with a detailed account of the associations that had helped him, and four years later still (Luria says eight years but the dates indicate four) "I had occasion to ask S. to repeat this performance (once again without giving him prior warning). He had no difficulty whatsoever and came through with a faultless reproduction."
LURIA'S REPORTING is marred by some omissions of factual detail and occasional inconsistencies and contradictions. Even in experimental work Russian psychological reporting has been less meticulous than that of the Americans and British. But although the deficiencies are a reminder of the usefulness of stricter discipline, they detract only in a minor way from the value of the record. The interest of the study lies less in the precise length of lists and dates of recall than in an exploration of the mind and personality of which this freak memory formed part, and in the sidelights thrown, often by contrast, on ordinary mental functioning.
S. was certainly far ahead of most people in the basic processes of retention and recall, but he was also seriously handicapped by the extremely elementary organization of the facts he remembered. For most of us the recall of words, numbers, or events in serial order is a minor part of our remembering. Far more important is the incorporation of a fact into systems of information associated with interests, and the retrieval of it when the interest is activated. This means selective emphasis and omissions, and it may well be that to achieve it we have had to weaken some forms of registration and retention that would equip us with "good" but sequencebound memories. S. had never freed himself from the succession of events in time. This was so even in his initial perceptions. At one performance he was given a chart with numbers arranged in logical order:
etc., and with the usual effort of concentration he recalled the entire series by visualizing the numbers one by one without noticing how they were arranged. He said afterward that if letters of the alphabet had been similarly arranged he would still not have noticed and would simply have memorized them one after the other. He really had what we loosely call a memory "store," instead of the active processes of organization and reorganization that make up normal remembering.
It may seem tempting to call S.'s kind of memory "primitive," and preliterate peoples do appear to remember in a more sequential and concrete fashion than most of us. But Frances Yates's book, The Art of Memory, with its studies of classical and medieval memory systems (of which S.'s method is in some ways reminiscent), shows that highly literate cultures have sometimes chosen to retain and cultivate this kind of memorizing. The idea that printing had a decisive effect on the kind of memory we have developed is natural but perhaps questionable; it underestimates the amount of reading educated people had previously done and the ease with which they dealt in abstractions. The association of the concrete and sequential type of memory with lectures and the abstract and flexible with books is not strictly necessary.
As Luria shows in examining the psychological context of S.'s memory, it was not only his retentiveness but his extraordinarily concrete mode of thinking that made his mind unusual in an adult. Words for him were indissolubly bound up with visual and other images. For us, at least by adolescence, the imagery has been dimmed, and although it may be lurking somewhere the word's meaning seems independent of it. S. had great difficulty in following abstract argument and even narrative because all the dead metaphors over which we skim from one idea to another were for him vividly concrete images. "Details which other people would overlook," writes Luria, "or which would remain on the periphery of awareness, took on independent value in his mind, giving rise to images that tended to scatter meaning."
Yet in some directions he had evidently progressed as we all do—if it is progress—to the point where the metaphor is so faded as to carry meaning with a minimum of concrete imagery. He claimed to have a good grasp of anything to do with economic affairs, and his own reports (though Luria makes no comment on this) employ just the sort of language, including dead metaphors if the translation is accurate here, which baffled him when he had to listen to it. His degree of familiarity with different kinds of subject matter seems crucial, and on this point Luria gives no information. It might be expected that with such intense imagery S. would have an unusually sensitive response to poetry. Actually it baffled him. Perhaps he had not read enough of it, but whatever the reason such vividly concrete images arose to every detail of a poem, sometimes with idiosyncratic associations, that he could completely lose the sense.
BESIDES BEING INTENSE, S.'s imagery was complicated by his remarkable synesthesia. He quite regularly perceived things in several sensory modes at once. "What a crumbly, yellow voice you have," he said to Vygotsky (one of several well-known Russian psychologists who examined him). Words themselves, apart from their meaning, had sensory qualities:
It's hard to express…it's not a matter of vision or hearing but some over-all sense I get. Usually I experience a word's taste and weight, and I don't have to make an effort to remember it—the word seems to recall itself. But it's difficult to describe. What I sense is something oily slipping through my hand…or I'm aware of a slight tickling in my left hand caused by a mass of tiny, lightweight points. When that happens I simply remember, without having to make the attempt…
In his synesthesia, as at so many other points, S. retained in exceptional strength a kind of experience which many people have in childhood and may—as Galton long ago demonstrated—preserve into adult life in a faded or fragmentary form. Normally it fades because it serves little purpose. S. might find it useful to recall the way back to Luria's institute by the sight of a fence that also had a salty taste and felt rough, besides having a sharp, piercing sound. But synesthesia is so arbitrary and personal that in extreme form it hinders communication. S. explained:
The sound of a word has one distinct form and color, the meaning another form and a particular weight as well, it sounds different… For me to come up with the right word at the right time, I have to fit all this together. On the one hand it makes for complications, but on the other, it is a way of remembering words. If I keep in mind this peculiarity of mine, that I have to adapt to the way others think, that's one thing. But if I forget this, I'm liable to give people the impression I'm a dull, senseless fellow….
Western psychologists would naturally wonder about S.'s level of intelligence, but it would have been ideologically unsound to test it, and in any case the standard tests would have been of doubtful use with S.'s peculiar pattern of gifts and deficiencies. His solving of mathematical puzzles, aided by the ability to "see" all the elements, makes it clear that he was not dull. But the handicap of his proliferating associations and imagery made it difficult for him to keep to the point of a question or select the relevant from the irrelevant even in describing his own mental processes. Moreover his intensely active and vivid imagery seems also to have facilitated dissociative processes. As a child, he could "see" the clock fixed at a time which meant he need not get up yet, or he would provide a doppelganger to go to school:
… There he is, he's getting his coat and cap, putting on his galoshes. Now he's gone. So everything's as it should be. I stay home, and "he" goes off. But suddenly my father walks in and says: "It's so late, and you haven't left for school yet?"
Luria thinks that S.'s unstable grasp of reality and the vividness of his fantasies had contributed to his passive, drifting tendency. But it seems equally possible that it was the other way round, that with more drive he would have dampened down the imaginings. He told Luria in 1937:
If at eighteen or twenty I'd thought I was ready to marry and a countess or princess had agreed to marry me—even that wouldn't have impressed me. Perhaps I was destined for something greater…. Whatever I did, whether writing articles, becoming a film star—it was just a temporary thing…. I was passive for the most part, didn't understand that time was moving on. All the jobs I had were simply work I was doing "in the meantime." The feeling I had was "I'm only twenty-five, only thirty—I've got my whole life ahead of me."
A sad person, he was the passive vehicle of a stupendous specialized capacity which he could put to no more use than to earn the sort of living available to any entertainer of moderate talent.
More by D.W. Harding
Leavis's Way
D. W. Harding (1906–1993) was a British psychologist and literary critic. In1933 he joined FR Leavis as an editor of Scrutiny, where much of his literary criticism appeared, but also work, notably on aggression, that led to The Impulse to Dominate and Social Psychology and Individual Values.


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Crowley thinks rules don't apply to her
Here's clip #3 of the Caruana-Crowley debate. This segment includes questions about creating jobs, reconstruction of South Middle Village streets (3:40), improving constituent services (7:45), audience questions: wages (11:30), business interference (13:00), 'no truck' signs on Furmanville Ave (14:50).
(Crowley is most out-of-control in this segment.)
Posted by Queens Crapper at 12:49 AM 7 comments:
Labels: City Council, craig caruana, debate, Elizabeth Crowley
Vallone refuses to appear at NY1 debate
From Saffran 2013:
City Council Candidate Dennis Saffran today learned that his opponent, Paul Vallone, is refusing to appear at the only televised debate between the two candidates, which was scheduled to be taped at 5 p.m. on Sunday, November 3rd, and to appear on NY 1's "Road to City Hall" the following day. Vallone, who is running against Saffran in one of the few competitive Council Districts in the entire City — a district where Republicans often win — claims that the debate, which would last twenty minutes at most, does not fit in to his busy campaign schedule.
In a statement, Saffran said:
"I'm extremely disappointed by my opponent's decision not to show up at our only debate, as well as his decision to apparently run on his connections and family legacy, as opposed to the actual issues. This seems to be a trend with my opponent, who failed to appear at a forum held during the primary that focused on preservation and land-use issues, where he knew that his strong ties to Big Developers and the Real Estate Industry would come to the fore. I can't imagine what my opponent has planned two days before the election that would be more important than our only opportunity to reach all of the voters in the district at one time, and letting them compare the two candidates side-by-side so I urge him to release his public campaign schedule so that the voters of this district at least know why he is insulting their intelligence by refusing to debate."
Saffran's public campaign schedule can be found here.
Posted by Queens Crapper at 12:40 AM 26 comments:
Labels: candidates, City Council, debate, Dennis Saffran, ny1, Paul Vallone
If you don't like the deadline, just move it!
From Crain's:
Eight years after the city and a pair of developers announced plans for an $850 million mixed-use project in Queens called Flushing Commons, the deadline to begin work has been pushed back. Under the new schedule, the developers will close on the $20 million purchase of the property, a city-owned parking lot, by the end of the year. Ground is to be broken shortly afterward. Previously, the developers had faced a deadline of Thursday, Oct. 31, to get a shovel in the ground.
The project will be undertaken by a joint venture of TDC Development International and The Rockefeller Group.
Earlier this month, the developer filed for a construction permit to begin the first phase, which will include an underground parking garage, about 160 residential units, 350,000 square feet of retail or commercial space, a 1.5-acre open space and a 62,000-square-foot YMCA.
Shifting closing dates for projects as large and complex as Flushing Commons is not unusual, the Economic Development Corp. noted.
Labels: EDC, Flushing, flushing commons, TDC
Council raises smoking age to 21
From the Daily News:
Opening a new front in the city's war on smoking, the New York City Council voted Wednesday to hike the legal age for buying cigarettes to 21.
Mayor Bloomberg promised to sign the bill, making it certain that New York will become the first major city in America to adopt such a high age requirement.
Bloomberg said the new age requirement will prevent more teenagers from developing a smoking habit, saving lives. Research shows that more than 80% of smokers in New York began lighting up before the age 21.
Most smokers I know began lighting up before the age of 16. Don't think this will do anything except make the mayor feel good.
Labels: Bloomberg, cigarettes, City Council, smoking
5 Pointz TRO extended
Photo by Miss Heather
From the Huffington Post:
In a welcomed decision by Federal District Judge Frederic Block, 5Pointz artists were handed another win on October 28, when he made a ruling that extended the existing temporary restraining order (TRO) he issued, as reported here at The Huffington Post. Judge Block scheduled the hearing on November 6, 2013, at which time he will also address the artists' allegations that the property owner, Jerry Wolkoff, violated the existing TRO over this past weekend.
With the good fortune of getting the extension, the artists involved in this case are calling out to the famous English artist Banksy to join their cause to stop the demolition of 5Pointz which is known as the graffiti Mecca of the world. In the Guardian, Jonathan Cohen (also known as Meres1) spoke out and believes Banksy should offer support to 5 Pointz. He said "We're not asking you to give us money, but your words could help," Meres said. "Why don't you put a comment out?" Banksy who is also known as a political activist has created his art on the walls of the buildings of New York City every day for a month and has achieved great notoriety through his commentary. If he used his art to try to save 5Pointz he would be a hero to many.
The use of art as a political weapon is not new. Through history, the role of the artist as a social commentator has been invaluable and engrained in our culture. Art and its creation as a response to social and political issues can become powerfully influential in raising public awareness that results in positive change.
It is hoped that Bansky reaches out in time to support us and help our cause to preserve 5Pointz.
Labels: 5 pointz, artists, banksy, graffiti, jerry wolkoff, restraining order
Ridgewood site may be Superfund eligible
From the NY Times:
City, state and federal agencies have long known that an industrial site in Ridgewood, Queens, contained radioactive material. The location, currently home to an auto repair shop, a construction firm, a warehouse and a deli, was once used by the Wolff-Alport Chemical Company, which sold thorium to the federal government for research on atomic bombs.
Until recently, officials considered the contamination level low enough not to be of concern. But over time, regulations changed, and inspectors began making repeat visits to the site, conducting surveys of radiation levels. The latest comprehensive federal study, released in February 2012, found levels significant enough to conclude that "workers at the auto body shop and pedestrians who frequently use the sidewalks at this location may have an elevated risk of cancer."
With that, the site will soon be considered for Superfund status, the Environmental Protection Agency said.
The Wolff-Alport Chemical Company was, for three decades, a supplier of rare earth metals, the agency said in its report. The company dumped thorium and some uranium into the sewer system as waste byproducts until 1947, when the Atomic Energy Commission, the successor of the Manhattan Project, began buying thorium for research, according to government documents.
Stephen I. Schwartz, editor of the The Nonproliferation Review, a journal on nuclear weapons, said the Manhattan Project and ensuing research left contamination sites around the country, but most fall under the Department of Energy's purview and have been addressed. A sprawling site in Hanford, Wash., is still under remediation.
In Queens, the owners of the auto repair shop and the construction firm said no mention of the possible radioactive contamination was made when they began renting their spaces. The auto repair shop moved in 14 years ago; the construction firm moved in six years ago.
The nondescript building sits along the border with Bushwick, Brooklyn, near Long Island Rail Road tracks. Residential homes line nearby streets, and a day care center and a public school sit two blocks away. An agency representative said these locations did not show high levels of radiation.
Labels: construction, contamination, EPA, garage, Ridgewood, superfund, warehouse
More of the exciting CD30 debate
Since yesterday's CD30 debate video clip was so popular, I thought I would post the second part of the debate:
The questions are about Ridgewood Reservoir, the 311 system (4:50), St. Saviour's (8:50), funding for the district (12:10), overcrowding in schools (15:05).
You'll notice that when asked about the St. Saviour's money, Crowley says it is protected, however, Alex Rosa from the Queens Borough President's office has confirmed that it was taken back by OMB during the last budget cycle. In addition, Crowley does not say where she would create much needed park space in Maspeth when asked directly. She also boasts about creating new school seats, but forgets the fact that she actually voted against the Maspeth High School.
Food court to replace Willets Point businesses
Fledgling businesses will be able to avail themselves of some incubator space at the massive Willets Point development, officials said Tuesday.
The 18,000-square-foot space — to be split between two different sections of the development — will be operated by the Queens Chamber of Commerce.
"You're giving businesses a chance to learn the ropes while they're actually conducting business," said Jack Friedman, the Chamber's executive director.
The companies will receive a 30% to 40% discount on rent at the space and receive free trainings and other services, he said.
The plan for the incubator was a little-known detail buried in the list of concessions agreed upon by the developers, the Related Co. and Sterling Equities.
The duo will give the Queens Chamber $165,000 to help fund the start-up costs for the entrepreneurial space.
One possibility, he said, would be to utilize the space as a local food court, which would enable area eateries to share one industrial-sized kitchen and save on costs.
The Queens Economic Development Corp. operates a similar food incubator in Long Island City.
If space permits, the incubator could also house smaller storefronts, which would be occupied by merchants who hope to appeal to the area's ethnic enclaves. For example, an Indian Sari shop from Jackson Heights.
This makes a whole lot of sense, doesn't it? Evict currently operating businesses that provide something useful in order to open a fast food court and recreate 82nd Street. What would we do without innovative ideas like this?
Labels: Jack Friedman, queens chamber of commerce, related company, small business, sterling equities, Willets Point
Democratic political consultant busted
From The Politicker:
Melvin Lowe, a political consultant who worked with the State Senate Democrats, was arrested this morning on federal corruption charges.
Mr. Lowe is facing a nine-count criminal complaint in federal court alleging his participation in five separate illegal schemes, according to a statement sent out by the U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara earlier this afternoon. In total, the complaint alleges Mr. Lowe filed a litany of false paperwork and failed to report more than $2 million in come in order to enrich himself.
Notably, Mr. Lowe was among nine individuals–mostly sitting state senators–that now-former State Senator Shirley Huntley recorded on wire while she was cooperating with authorities. Ms. Huntley is currently serving a year in prison for her own corruption scheme; the pols she wiretapped have professed their innocence.
Labels: consultants, democrats, melvin lowe, preet bharara, Shirley Huntley, U.S. Attorney
Mistaken tax breaks
These tax snafus were truly close to home.
Bumbling city Finance Department watchdogs have for years been erroneously giving more than $2,000 in tax breaks to the owners of an office building and three parking lots — including one rented by the department itself.
The state School Tax Relief Program is supposed to give only homeowners up to a $300 tax rebate on their primary residence each year.
But the Finance Department messed up and has been giving the sweeteners to owners of three parking lots in Queens and Brooklyn, and an office building on the East Side of Manhattan, records show.
Incredibly, one of the Queens parking lots — at 144-02 95th Ave. in Jamaica — is being used by the borough's team of tax assessors.
"This is going on right under our noses," one assessor fumed.
Labels: Department of Finance, Jamaica, parking lot, STAR rebate, tax credit
Crowley-Caruana debate a real doozy
"There was a debate last night in Middle Village for the 30th Council District. The incumbent, Elizabeth Crowley, and challenger, Craig Caruana, had a lengthy discussion of the issues. The panelists were Liam Laguerre, reporter for the Queens Courier, Rob Pozarycki, Assistant Editor of the Times Newsweekly, and Paul Graziano, urban planner and civic activist from northeast Queens.
The first segment is here, and includes candidate introductions, questions about the Knockdown Center in Maspeth (5:30), proposed Glendale homeless shelter (11:15) and problems with garbage freight railroads (15:45). According to Crowley, the Knockdown Center will provide jobs, and despite all the stuff that has been revealed to have gone on at the site, it's no match for the campaign contributions that she has received from the investors. She claims the site has the potential to create 1,500 jobs, even though the owner himself has only estimated about 30. The proposed Glendale homeless shelter is not a threat at all, because Crowley says so. (Tell that to the hundreds of people expected to rally this Saturday against it.) And finally, a former Republican council member moved freight rail operations into people's backyards before Crowley took office. Which isn't at all true." - Christina Wilkinson
Labels: craig caruana, Elizabeth Crowley, garbage, Glendale, homeless, jobs, knockdown center, Maspeth, Middle Village, railroad, shelters
Ratner a big DeBlasio donor
Housing emerged as an issue in the mayoral race Monday when Bill de Blasio came under withering attack for the lack of affordable units in the Atlantic Yards development rising in his Brooklyn backyard.
De Blasio, who has focused his campaign on income inequality, has been uncharacterically quiet on the failure of developer Bruce Ratner to build 2,250 units of affordable housing promised as part of the project, mayoral rival Joe Lhota charged.
"He was silent because he was bought," said Lhota, standing across the street from the gleaming Barclay's Center, the anchor of the $5 billion development.
"The people who built the Barclay's Center and promised to build all of the affordable housing have given contributions to him over and over again."
As a City Council member from Brooklyn and then as the city's Public Advocate, de Blasio bucked neighborhood opposition and supported the controversial project.
Ratner has received tax breaks and loans worth more than $760 million to build the project, which is supposed to include the 2,250 units of affordable housing. But nearly eight years after the project was approved, the first 181 affordable housing units won't break ground until next year. And there is no concrete timetable for the other units.
Ratner and his associates at Forest City Ratner Companies have raised more than $73,000 for de Blasio's campaign, records show.
Meet the soon-to-be boss, same as the old boss. The rest of the real estate community is also throwing huge wads of cash at BDB.
Labels: Atlantic Yards, barclays center, Bruce Ratner, campaign contributions, fundraiser, joe lhota
More Sandy aid on the way
From CBS New York:
Nearly a year after Superstorm Sandy made landfall, the city is getting another $1.34 billion in federal grant money for homeowners, businesses and climate change resiliency.
"The main focus the first year was on recovery — just recovering from the storm and letting the city function again. This second year is rebuilding — rebuilding our homes, rebuilding our small businesses, rebuilding our public works," Sen. Charles Schumer said.
The funds make up the second allocation of Community Block Development Grants from the $60.2 federal aid package passed by Congress in January. Another $1.77 billion in aid, the first installment, was released the next month.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the federal assistance continues to to be critical to the city's progress.
"We also recognize there's far more work to do," the mayor added.
Officials said the first allotment's roll-out has been necessarily slow.
"We are not wasting the taxpayers' money," Bloomberg said. "We've tried to account for every single penny."
Labels: Bloomberg, Chuck Schumer, funding, hurricane
Who's against safe jobs?
Big real estate developers, affordable housing builders and minority activists are teaming up to fight a Council bill they say will stymie local employment and economic development in the outer boroughs.
The bill, known as the Safe Jobs Act, would require all projects receiving $1 million or more in city subsidies or tax benefits to be built using state-certified apprenticeship programs.
Such programs are operated by the city's powerful construction unions — and the development coalition fears mandated apprenticeships would block minority contractors and local workers without ties to the unions.
"Minority firms are small and would be unable to devote the time and resources necessary to create approved programs," said Hazel Dukes, president of the NAACP state conference. "They will be effectively barred from participating in city-sponsored projects."
The apprenticeship programs will ensure safer construction practices on these projects, supporters say.
The bill, introduced by Councilwoman Diana Reyna (D-Brooklyn), comes amidst a big push by union workers for a share of outer borough projects.
Labels: affordable housing, apprenticeships, developers, Diana Reyna, safe jobs act, unions
Landmarking advocates strike back against REBNY
A coalition of preservation groups from around the city gathered outside the landmarked midtown headquarters of the Real Estate Board of New York Monday to push back against a recent report from the powerful property-industry lobbying group that linked landmarking to a dearth in new affordable housing.
"This is a red herring," Andrew Berman, of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, said of the report. "This is not why New York is faces challenges to affordability."
Speaking outside of the old, art-deco General Electric tower on the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 52nd Street, Mr. Berman was referring to REBNY's Sept. 25 study on the impact of landmarking, which lambasted what it termed the overzealous activity of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission in expanding building protections in the city. As a consequence, REBNY said that only five units of affordable housing had been constructed in Manhattan's landmarked districts since 2003, and that none had been built since 2008. Meanwhile, 8,070 units of such lower-priced housing went up elsewhere in the borough over the same five-year period, the report concluded.
But on Monday, the preservationists fired back. They charged that some REBNY members simply wanted to tear down historic buildings that house low- and middle-income individuals and put up luxury towers instead.
"The biggest cause of New York's affordability (problem) is the loss of existing affordable units," Mr. Berman said, going to far as to insist that landmark designations are often the only thing standing in the way of the units' destruction.
As examples he cited landmarked buildings that are entirely composed of affordable units, including West Beth and 505 LaGuardia Place in the West Village and Dunbar Apartments in Harlem as examples of developments that would have been at risk should they not have been landmarked.
Remember that REBNY sponsors the political action committee, Jobs For New York.
Labels: affordable housing, landmarking, rebny
Former car lot to soon host 28 units
Coming soon to 63-34 Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood:
TOTAL: 28 UNIT CLASS"A" MULTIPLE DWELLING WITH 1 PROFESSIONAL OFFICE AND OPEN ACCESSORY PARKING FOR 17 CARS.
But don't worry, there's going to also be "ENCLOSED ACCESSORY BICYCLE STORAGE ROOM FOR 14 BICYCLE SPACES".
The other buildings on that block are 3 stories high, but this one will be 5. Because it just has to be.
Labels: bicycles, overdevelopment, parking lot, Ridgewood
One expensive piece of real estate
For $30 million, this Mill Basin mansion comes with everything and the kitchen sink. Four of them, actually, plus a dock for a dozen boats.
The most expensive Brooklyn home ever — asking twice as much as anything else on the market — it sprawls some 23,000 feet between a main house and guest house with 257 feet of Jamaica Bay frontage.
The 10-bedroom, 15-bath property is the 17-year passion project of Galina Anissimova, ex-wife of Russia's 38th richest man, a shadowy minerals baron.
Her broker, James Cornell of The Corcoran Group, said she probably spent more than $30 million transforming the place .
"It's perfect," Cornell said. "It's the highest quality everything I've ever seen in 24 years in the business."
Perfection includes garage space for seven cars, a circular meditation room inscribed with signs of the Zodiac and a 1,000-square-foot outdoor pool — larger than many Brooklyn apartments — beside which sits a gigantic gazebo with room for 50 guests.
Labels: Brooklyn, mansion, russians
The bums are back
Cops are giving homeless people and panhandlers in the subways the kid-glove treatment, arresting subterranean scofflaws far less frequently than just two years ago, data show.
The ranks of the homeless, meanwhile, have swelled to 1,841 this year — a 13 percent increase over last year's tally, the city's Department of Homeless Services says.
For straphangers, it has created an atmosphere of fear.
"I feel threatened, especially taking the train at night," explained Brooklynite Lortashia Smith, who said she has been followed off trains several times. "The police can definitely do more."
The NYPD said panhandler/peddler arrests in the subway have increased over the past year, with 409 pinched so far in 2013 versus 395 in 2012. But those numbers pale in comparison to 2011, when it was reported that in a six-month span that year, a whopping 930 panhandlers and peddlers — the two are not separated in the data — were arrested.
"There's been a drop-off," acknowledged one police source.
The NYPD refused to provide full-year data for 2011, when cops were busy cracking down on underground quality-of-life issues as part of a Transit Bureau initiative called Operation Moving Target.
Labels: homeless, NYPD, subways
Bill wasn't on top of scammers at HUD
Bill de Blasio presided over millions of dollars in wasted taxpayer money when he oversaw the federal government's public-housing programs in New York and New Jersey, records show.
He served as director of the New York-New Jersey region for the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1997 to 1999. In that time, HUD's inspector general reported that the region lost about $23 million to scams perpetrated by public-housing officials, mortgage companies and nonprofits that got grants from HUD.
Other accounts put the loss much higher. In a Dec. 14, 2000, article, The New York Times reported that several people defrauded HUD of $70 million in federally insured loans on more than 250 New York properties from 1998 to 1999.
Susan Gaffney, HUD's inspector general, described extensive illegal activity by nonprofit groups at the time as "unique to New York."
New York City — by far HUD's largest grantee — received $1 billion annually from the agency during de Blasio's tenure.
Labels: Bill DeBlasio, Housing and Urban Development, scam
Big increase for flood insurance
U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) warned Sunday a dramatic increase that could soon be facing New Yorkers.
The lawmakers joined property and small business owners, co-op residents and other community members Sunday at 200 East End Ave., a co-op building on the Upper East Side that recouped $4 million in damage after Superstorm Sandy, but now reportedly could be hit with astronomical insurance premiums as a result of the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012.
Maloney said in a news release that the rising flood insurance premiums are not affordable, and could deter people from buying insurance at all. Maloney asked for a delay in the rate increases, which she said could raise New Yorkers' premiums by $5,000 to $10,000.
Maloney said the National Flood Insurance Program is crucial, but it cannot be built on the backs of hardworking New Yorkers.
A recent City of New York study indicated that New Yorkers could see their rates jump by as much as $10,000, from current levels as low as $430, as a result of the Flood Insurance Reform Act and upcoming Federal Emergency Management Agency Maps, Maloney's office said.
Her office said New Yorkers from the Upper East Side to Red Hook, Brooklyn and the Rockaways could be affected.
Labels: Carolyn Maloney, flooding, insurance, Nydia Velazquez
Candidates speak to BFHA about airport noise
Filmed at Broadway-Flushing Homeowners Association last week.
There are some really bad jokes at ~5:20.
Labels: broadway-flushing, Dennis Saffran, Paul Vallone, queens quiet skies
Voter Guide has Vallone, Jr. running for BP on Conservative line
Take a look at page 13 of the voter guide you received in the mail, and you'll notice that Peter Vallone, Jr. is listed as still running on the Conservative Party line.
Peter Vallone, Jr. did not get the Conservative Party line. As you may recall, he messed up his address on his paperwork, which disqualified him. So what gives?
Labels: Borough President, conservative party, Peter Vallone, voter guide
Cuomo wants to develop Aqueduct
From Gov. Cuomo comes the welcome news that Aqueduct's days as a shabby and underutilized thoroughbred track are likely numbered.
In its heyday, Aqueduct drew tens of thousands of horse racing fans every day during its meet. Now, with racing's steep decline and the availability of off-track wagering, it's a hulking shell onto which has been grafted a video slot-machine casino.
The track and parking lots cover almost 200 acres of land in southern Queens that could be put to productive use — for example, as the site of affordable housing. This page has long called for shutting the place and moving its races to Belmont Park, just 8 miles to the east.
"I agree," Cuomo said at a recent meeting with the Daily News Editorial Board.
"It's been a waste," he said. "You could do anything at Aqueduct. I mean, you're right at the airport. It's a great piece of property. It's one of the largest pieces of property, probably, in the city of New York....
Here comes another taxpayer funded development scheme to benefit one of the Governor's friends...
Labels: affordable housing, Andrew Cuomo, Aqueduct, Belmont, resorts world
SI Farm Colony to become senior housing
A long-abandoned poorhouse and hospital in Willowbrook will be transformed into a residential community for seniors, the city announced on Friday.
The New York City Economic Development Corporation unveiled a deal with a developer to overhaul the dilapidated New York City Farm Colony buildings and create a retirement community called Landmark Colony.
Staten Island-based NFC Associates LLC. will preserve some of the historic buildings on the 43-acre site, at 501 Brielle Ave., and will build others to create a 300-unit community for senior citizens.
Of the 11 buildings from the Farm Colony that are still standing, five will be rehabilitated for occupancy and two will be stabilized and preserved. The rest will be demolished after the developer gets approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Abandoned NYC has a great photo tour of the colony.
Labels: developers, landmarking, LPC, senior housing, Staten Island
Streetlights being converted to LED
From NY1:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday that the city is replacing all 250,000 of its street lights with light-emitting diodes, known as LEDs.
The plan is expected to save at least $14 million per year.
New York's traditional street lights will have a slightly different look when the LEDs are attached.
Historic street lights will stay the same, but the bulbs will be different.
I hope it's not the headache-inducing LEDs!
Labels: Department of Transportation, LEDs, street lights
Bank of America cleans up its act
On October 16th I reported on some garbage problems in the downtown section of Jamaica and pointed out the horrible ongoing condition at 165th Street & Jamaica Avenue right near the Bank Of America ATM location, which occupies that spot. For a long time, this corner has been a notorious dumping ground due to the fact that many of our residents and visitors are low-class ghetto trash, who just throw shit down on the ground, but also the fact that there was no city garbage can on the corner, a huge amount of livery cab drivers hang on that corner all day/night drumming up business and throwing their shit on the ground, plus the food and other vendors that are right there, dumping their cartons/boxes and other shit there. Many food vendors will leave much of their garbage on the ground in downtown area. Of course many of our useless leaders, who have been aware of this, have done shit.
But when Bank of America speaks, the powers to be will listen. One of my faithful readers, who saw the photos of this disgusting sight, emailed the CEO of Bank of America about the situation, along with the posting and photos. Very soon I was given a number to call Breanna Pennington, Officer/Customer Advocate who was very concerned by what she saw and how that affects the image of Bank of America. She assured me that she would be talking to the appropriate people within the company and take care of the issue. The next day she called me with the action that was taken and then I received an email from Peter Osborne of Bank of America who wrote me this:
"Joe, I'm with Bank of America. Our property manager met with the Block by Block organization to discuss our mutual concerns with this situation. As a result, a trash can was moved to our corner and Block by Block promised they will pay closer attention to this location. Some food trucks were also asked to move away from the location, which should reduce the trash in the area. We appreciate you bringing this situation to our attention."
You know damn well the powers to be in Jamaica will make sure this does not repeat anymore, they certainly would not Bank of America pulling out. This very quick response by Bank of America is how all businesses in Jamaica should be handling this garbage problem. Take action immediately and put things in place to see that it does not continue, unlike some of the shit retail places along Jamaica Avenue and side streets that do not give a shit (but soon their days will be numbered when the major development begins, many are already closing up shop or putting up signs they will be closing). In the meantime, Jamaica leaders need to be on these businesses asses big time for the conditions in front of their properties.
Useless leaders of Jamaica, take note of Bank Of America. They did not make any excuses, they did not pass the buck, they did not ignore the situation, they did not talk about a "magic wand". They took immediate action and put a plan in action.
Joe Moretti
http://cleanupjamaicaqueens.wordpress.com/
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Labels: banks, cleanliness, garbage, Jamaica
Vallone lies about CB7 vote; supports non-citizen voting
As promised, here's Paul Vallone lying about the Willets Point vote. All the viewing that's required is the first 3 minutes:
"...we need to stand up and say 'no, don't do this'. That's why when it came before Community Board 7, we voted against it. Especially that whole mall expansion down at CitiField, and the soccer stadium."
CB7 voted yes on the mall and the soccer stadium never went before CB7. Maybe if Vallone showed up to vote more often, he'd know what they voted on.
Later on, at about 8:30, Dennis Saffran mentions that he is opposed to non-citizen voting, unlike Paul Vallone, who said a 6 month waiting period was too soon to allow them to vote, but that he was open to the idea.
Saffran's remarks on preserving parkland can be viewed here.
Labels: CitiField, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, lying, mall, Paul Vallone, soccer, stadium
People buying A Tale of Two Cities
The rise of Bill de Blasio to the top of city politics has raised the question: Is it his policies or something else that have fueled the public advocate's popularity? A survey by The New York Times and Siena College suggested that a vast majority of New York voters favor Mr. de Blasio to be the next mayor despite disagreeing with his positions on education, public safety and other issues.
But a new poll casts doubt on those findings. The survey of 1,475 New Yorkers at all income levels, conducted between July and August, found strong support for Mr. de Blasio's central message of income inequality, with a majority saying they believe that the wealthy have benefited the most under the Bloomberg years.
"[From] some of the other polling, for example what The New York Times reported, the sense was that the public likes de Blasio but doesn't really agree with his policies," said Nancy Rankin, vice president for policy and research at the Community Service Society, which sponsored the poll. "What we're seeing in our survey is something different. We're seeing a real shift in the public's mood."
Labels: Bill DeBlasio, Bloomberg, income inequality, poll
Democratic Machine barks an order; good government group complies
The good-government group Citizens Union canceled its planned endorsement of a Republican challenger in a little-watched City Council race after two Democratic lawmakers complained about his campaign literature, its executive director confirmed.
Citizens Union announced Friday morning that it would not support anyone in the Queens race between incumbent Democratic Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley and a young Republican former television producer, Craig Caruana. The organization had told Mr. Caruana it would endorse him this week. Ms. Crowley, a cousin of powerful Queens Democratic leader Joe Crowley, is heavily favored to win re-election.
In an email to reporters, the good-government group explained that it had backed away from supporting Mr. Caruana upon learning this week of literature mailed to voters by his campaign.
"After the Citizens Union board met yesterday and reviewed the message of the flyer and its consequences, it felt the flyer crossed a line and engaged in inappropriate fear-mongering that unfairly targets immigrants," the group explained.
Not mentioned was that two members of the City Council had called Citizens Union Executive Director Dick Dadey this week to complain about the impending endorsement. Manhattan Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito, the co-chair of the council's Progressive Caucus and a candidate for council speaker, brought the matter to Mr. Dadey's attention, he said. Councilman Danny Dromm, a Queens Democrat, also called to register his concern.
First of all, the mailer doesn't target immigrants, it targets people trespassing on American soil. Big difference.
Interesting that 2 council members from outside the district (one from Manhattan) would call Citizens Union about an endorsement and that Citizens Union would listen to them. Citizens Union is not an immigrant rights group, they are supposed to be a good government group. It's never a good thing when the government tells a good government group what to do, and they do it. They have a long history of doing so, however. It's pretty sad.
An actual quote from their director: "Citizens Union has been pleased to work over the past couple of years with reform-minded individuals like Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Christine Quinn."
Oy vey!
And it's quite interesting that a mailer about a piece of legislation that Citizens Union decided not to take a position on was a dealbreaker for Caruana, yet the many mailers from the real estate PAC, Jobs for New York, on behalf of CD19 candidate Paul Vallone, didn't cause them to bat en eyelash when deciding to endorse Vallone in that race. Outside spending in elections is usually a top 5 concern for good government groups, but for CU, it's of no concern.
At the end of the day, I'm not sure Caruana would have wanted to be on the same endorsement list as Paul Vallone and Melinda Katz, anyway.
Labels: citizens union, craig caruana, Daniel Dromm, Dick Dadey, Elizabeth Crowley, endorsements, Melissa Mark-Viverito
Bloomberg calls CitiBike "mass transit"
Mayor Bloomberg admitted Thursday that the Citi Bike program isn't profitable, nearly six months after the bicycle-share program launched around town.
"I don't think so yet," Bloomberg said when asked if the Citi Bike program is making money.
The mayor argued that, like most start-up businesses, the Citi Bike operation is going through growing pains in its early stages of development.
"There's a lot of teething at the beginning," he said about the initial operating expenses. "You've got to get everything out there."
With Citi Bike customers having taken more than 2 million rides since its launch, Bloomberg is confident that the system can turn a profit in time.
"It is, I think, better than anybody had anticipated in terms of usage," Bloomberg said during a press conference at the Department of Transportation.
"It's a way to commute, it's a mass-transit system that requires no federal, state or city monies whatsoever."
Mass transit systems involve large vehicles that move a lot of people at a time. Not vend-a-bikes. And I guess Mike thinks we've forgotten that the City put $1.55M in taxpayer money into CitiBike.
Labels: bikeshare, Bloomberg
Paul Vallone threatens Dennis Saffran with disbarment
It happens at about 11:00 in the above video. Saffran's response is brilliant.
In the second video, Vallone claims to have met with Manhattan members of the city council in a private meeting to nix the rumored high school in Whitestone. He also claims that Bill DeBlasio sought him out to walk next to in a parade, which shows you exactly what is of utmost importance to the Vallones.
Later on in Douglaston, Vallone lied and said CB7 voted against the shopping mall in the park. They voted yes. Video coming soon.
Ask yourself who sounds more like legislative material and who sounds like a lying, raving lunatic making things up as he goes along. I think the answer is clear.
This was taped at the Bayside Historical Society's debate this past week.
Labels: Dennis Saffran, disbarment, Paul Vallone
BP candidate Tony Arcabascio speaks in Bayside
This is Queens Borough President candidate Tony Arcabascio speaking at the Bayside Historic Society's candidate's night.
Melinda Katz showed up near the end. She did nit attend last night's debate in Middle Village.
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Labels: Bayside, Borough President, Melinda Katz, tony arcabascio
BP debate will finally air
Queens Public Television has finally decided to air a debate taped two weeks ago between Queens Borough President hopefuls Melinda Katz and Tony Arcabascio.
The station had pulled the sparring match after third-party candidate Everly Brown complained he was not included.
"Mr. Everly Brown was invited to take part in the debate but failed to participate thereby forfeiting his equal access or 'equal time' to our channel," said Clifford Jacobs, programming and access services manager at QPTV. "Once invited, it is incumbent on the candidate to appear."
Brown's campaign manager, Elhadj Bah, said the station had never officially notified the candidate.
Here's the NY1 debate.
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Labels: Borough President, debate, everly brown, Melinda Katz, qptv, tony arcabascio
Queens Chronicle reminds DeBlasio that stadium in FMCP is dead
From the Queens Chronicle:
The plan to steal more Flushing Meadows parkland and give it to the superrich Arabian prince who will be the soccer team's chief owner is dead. Dead, dead, dead. City Councilman Leroy Comrie, the Queens delegation's leader and the Council's deputy majority leader, pronounced it so months ago (not that his colleagues in government did much to stop it; that was left to the people). He was right to do so.
But it seems that our likely next mayor, Bill de Blasio, didn't get the memo. When asked about the stadium proposal at Tuesday's mayoral debate, de Blasio made some populist-sounding statement about halting giveaways to big corporations — note that Mayor Bloomberg was ready to hand over 13 acres of our crown jewel park for a dollar! — but then, astonishingly, said that if a stadium would bring in money for upgrades to Flushing Meadows, the idea is worth discussing.
It was astonishing because for one, the plan is dead. Dead, dead, dead. Someone tell Bill.
And it was astonishing because de Blasio himself had gone out of his way to state his opposition to the idea earlier in the campaign. That was point one of a three-point plan he announced to protect the park. "The era of giving away prime land to commercial interests at bargain basement prices must come to an end," he said at the time.
Of course, that was when he was locked in a race with several fellow Democrats, each trying to be the most progressive, grassroots leader of the people. Now, perhaps, de Blasio wants to move toward the center, not his home territory.
Labels: Bill DeBlasio, queens chronicle, soccer, stadium
Lobbyists love DeBlasio
A who's who of top lobbyists served on the host committee of Bill de Blasio's $1 million fund-raiser with Hillary Clinton, it was revealed Tuesday.
Their participation in Monday night's bash drew fire from de Blasio's Republican rival in the mayor's race, Joe Lhota.
"The level of Bill de Blasio's hypocrisy is alarming. He takes cash from developers and special interests while telling New Yorkers he supports something different," Lhota spokeswoman Jessica Proud said.
De Blasio spokesman Dan Levitan declined comment.
The host committee included James Capalino, who has lobbied for Rudin Management, developers of high-end condos near the old St. Vincent's Hospital, and lobbyist Suri Kasirer, who met with de Blasio on Brooklyn's contentious Atlantic Yards project.
Others on the host committee included Stan Natapoff and Alexandra Stanton of Empire Global Ventures, Rachel Amar of Waste Management of New York, and Michael Woloz of Connelly McLaughlin & Woloz.
Labels: Bill DeBlasio, fundraiser, lobbyists
Howard Beach experiences a rash of car break-ins
Some residents in Howard Beach, Queens, are concerned about a spike in car break-ins there.
As CBS 2′s Don Champion reported, some car owners believe they are being targeted because of superstorm Sandy — the storm destroyed many cars in the neighborhood last year, and they've since been replaced by new, high-end vehicles.
Vehicle break-ins in the 106th precinct have climbed 62 percent within the past month.
One woman who did not want to be identified said her car has been broken into three times. She has since installed a driveway pole and installed security cameras.
Other residents have reported clothing and wallets being taken from vehicles. Not all of the victims, however, have reported the crimes to police, believing they're too petty.
The NYPD said it's important for residents to report all break-ins so they can target trends.
Labels: car breakins, crime, Howard Beach
School bus route changed after complaints
The Department of Education has agreed to change a Queens bus route back to the way it was after parents complained that the length of their kids' commutes suddenly doubled in time in recent weeks.
Children who live in Long Island City and take the bus to Astoria's P.S. 122 were recently told they had to start showing up at their bus stops about a half hour earlier than their usual pickup time, parents said.
They learned the bus — which they say brings about 40 students from Long Island City to P.S. 122 on Ditmars Boulevard — had to make a detour to pick up and drop off students at P.S. 151, located on 31st Avenue in Woodside.
Several parents complained to the DOE's Office of Pupil Transportation, arguing that the altered bus route was in violation of a Chancellor's Regulation that limits bus trips to 5 miles.
However, the parents say they were told by OPT that the "five mile" rule applies to the placement of bus stops en route to each assigned school, not the whole trip collectively.
The DOE, however, ultimately reviewed the parents' complaints and agreed to once again split the bus route between the two schools, returning it to the way it was.
Labels: Astoria, children, Department of Education, LIC, school buses, Woodside
Lhota says protecting parkland important; DeBlasio wants soccer stadium
Early on Tuesday night, [Bill DeBlasio] was asked about Major League Soccer's attempt to place a Spaceship-Enterprise-size soccer stadium in the midst of Flushing Meadows, Queens's densest and most heavily used park. He cleared his throat with some populist rumbling about city tax giveaways. Then he allowed that, well, perhaps, maybe, a pro soccer stadium might raise the money needed to give that dowdy dowager of a park a face-lift.
It was left to Mr. Lhota to make the point that, perhaps fortunately for Flushing Meadows, appears to have won the day: Our urban parks are a precious patrimony, and in this densest of American cities it is rarely wise to auction off greensward. If Flushing Meadows-Corona Park needs money, and enough three-piece-suit-wearing worthies cannot be found to toss together a conservancy, a mayor should find a way to pay for that park.
"It shouldn't be in that park," Mr. Lhota said of the stadium. "We don't have enough park space in this city as it is."
Labels: Bill DeBlasio, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, joe lhota, soccer, stadium
DeBlasio will institute illegal alien ID card
From the Capital New York:
Bill de Blasio said if elected mayor, he would seek "right away" to create in "early 2014" a municipal identification card for undocumented immigrants in New York City.
De Blasio — the Democratic mayoral nominee who enjoys a forty-point lead over his Republican opponent — made the comment during a press conference on the steps of City Hall where he was joined by supporters, including members from a number of immigrant rights groups. De Blasio said details about how to create the cards and which agency would issue them still needed to be explored "but we have working models" he said, "from other cities" that "have proven to be effective. So, we'd borrow from them."
Labels: Bill DeBlasio, ID card, illegal aliens
Lhota not too enthused by the Queens GOP
Republican mayoral candidate Joseph Lhota has a secret, sources say: He's been endorsed by the Queens Republican organization.
Two sources with direct knowledge of the situation said Lhota consultant Jake Menges informed leadership of the Queens Republican Party of the campaign's decision last weekend not to publicize the endorsement. Mr. Menges not only rejected Queens Republicans' offer to have an endorsement press conference, but asked the party not to issue a press release touting its backing of Mr. Lhota, the sources added.
According to one source privy to the campaign's thinking, Mr. Lhota's camp did not want to highlight dissension in the Queens Republican Party and in other Republican circles by publicizing the endorsement, which would have come six weeks after an ugly Republican mayoral primary and two weeks before the general election. The Queens Republican faction led by Queens Republican Chairman Phil Ragusa backed grocery billionaire John Catsimatidis in the primary, while the faction led by Queens Councilman Eric Ulrich backed Mr. Lhota.
Such an announcement could have also brought attention to infighting in Brooklyn Republican Party, and to the fact that Mr. Catsimatidis has not formally endorsed Mr. Lhota, the Lhota campaign feared.
But you know who wasn't ashamed of possibly snagging the endorsement of the Queens GOP? Paul Vallone. Back in 2009:
A source close to Vallone's campaign said the candidate was interested in the GOP nomination because he believed in race against Democratic primary winner Kevin Kim, Vallone would "win the one-on-one match up with him easily." Halloran added that Vallone, who faced attacks from his Democratic rivals during the primary campaign, would be supporting him over the Democratic nominee in the race, Kim. "Paul is really like a kindred spirit," said Halloran.
And then there was his bid for the Conservative line...
According to Tom Long, chairman of the Queens County Conservative Party, however, Vallone told him this during a candidate screening with the party that he is, in fact, pro-life.
Despite once being considered for the GOP and Conservative lines, Vallone is now the Democratic nominee and he's pro-choice. How the hell did that happen?
Labels: conservative party, democrats, endorsements, joe lhota, Paul Vallone, phil ragusa, Republicans
Introducing the Ñ train
A group calling themselves "Z Street Art" has taken credit for the re-christening of the N train in New York City as the Ñ train. The artists say the project was done in honor of the 24 percent of New Yorkers who speak Spanish.
Labels: artists, graffiti, signs, spanish, subways, vandalism
The subway of the future?
Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials are envisioning a subway car of the future that offers New Yorkers an out, ending the era of the captive car population.
This month, in a 142-page document outlining needs for the next 20 years, the authority noted the benefits of articulated trains — similar to accordion-style buses — that have no doors between cars, allowing unrestricted flow throughout the length of the subway.
"This will both maximize carrying capacity," the authority said, and allow passengers to "move to less-crowded areas of the train, balancing loading and unloading times at all doors."
The inclusion of articulated train cars in the report, a mild surprise to some transit advocates, does not guarantee that the cars will reach the rails anytime soon, or even at all; it was not clear how the cost of the articulated cars compares with that of nonarticulated cars. But for the first time in the subway system's modern history, the authority appears poised to seriously consider a model adopted in cities like Berlin, Paris and Toronto.
Labels: MTA, subway, trains
DOE makes learning more difficult for injured kid
High school senior M'Kayah Walker of Woodside, Queens, said she was injured while playing soccer.
"I was playing soccer. Kids fell on top of me," she said. "And I found out my knees were dislocated."
That sports injury has Walker struggling to get around on crutches. But she never dreamed it would disrupt her academic future.
She said making it up the steps and in to William Cullen Bryant High School in Woodside is painful.
Her mother requested home instruction for Walker, allowing the teen to graduate with her peers. The answer was no — not once, but twice.
"Just give me the home schooling so I can get my diploma," she said.
Instead, the school issued her an elevator pass. But getting to it was tough and then she says she had to wait.
"They have taken more than 15 minutes to open the elevator," she said. "When I use it, I'm late, and the teachers yell at me."
Next month, Walker gets surgery to repair her knee. Without home instruction, she believes she won't be able to graduate until next summer.
Labels: bryant high school, disability, injury, soccer, stairs, teenagers
Lulus may be history come January
The City Council convenes in January with a fresh crop of members and a two-thirds majority that has called for eliminating bonus pay for being good little boys and girls.
Seventeen incoming freshman pledged to bar lulus, while 17 incumbents have done so. Total: 34 out of 51 members, well more than necessary to enact a prohibition.
But let us not count our chickens. Thirteen of those incumbents have dodged by accepting lulus they profess to oppose — and reporting that they have given the money to charity. This allows them to say they don't pocket the stipends while reaping the political benefits of charitable giving.
These 13 are: Rosie Mendez of Manhattan; Fernando Cabrera of the Bronx; Debi Rose of Staten Island; Mathieu Eugene, David Greenfield, Steve Levin and Darlene Mealy of Brooklyn; and Julissa Ferreras, Peter Koo, Karen Koslowitz, Eric Ulrich, Jimmy Van Bramer and Ruben Wills of Queens. Incumbent Danny Dromm, of Queens, says he is against lulus but keeps the money, asserting that he wants them eliminated, but not individually.
Labels: City Council, lulus
Will Flushing Commons finally break ground?
Eight years after floating plans for a huge residential/retail project, and just weeks before a deadline for breaking ground, the developers of the $850 million Flushing Commons project in Queens filed for their first permit to actually begin the work.
The city Department of Buildings is currently reviewing the application filed by TDC Development International and The Rockefeller Group. The duo is seeking approval to spend $3.5 million to modify a portion of Municipal Lot 1, the 5.5-acre parking lot in the bustling neighborhood. That initial job will begin to lay the groundwork for the project's first phase, which includes construction of about 160 residential units and 350,000 square feet of retail or commercial space. It will also include a YMCA and park. Another 450 residential units and 150,000 square feet of retail or commercial space are slated for the second phase of the project, for which no starting date has been set.
Under their agreement with the city, the developers' first priority has to be rearranging the parking spaces in the downtown area to maintain the same parking capacity currently provided by lot, which will be demolished over time to make way for the new buildings. According to sources familiar with the project, the initial work under the permit will allow the developers to move some of the lots entrances and exits to clear the way to excavate for a new garage.
Under the contract signed between the developers and Economic Development Corp., which shepherded the project through the approval process, TDC and Rockefeller were required to break ground by Oct. 31.
Labels: Department of Buildings, Flushing, flushing commons, groundbreaking, TDC
Is Bill DeBlasio hiding something?
Mayoral front-runner Bill de Blasio did not inform the city Conflicts of Interest Board of the tens of thousands of dollars in rental income he received in recent years, Crain's has learned.
City law states that elected officials must disclose income from real estate rents, but forms Mr. de Blasio has filed annually dating back to his days as a City Council member show none since at least 2007 for a rental property he and his wife own in Park Slope, Brooklyn. His 2011 tax return shows $47,500 in rental income offset by $62,200 in deductions for the property, where the candidate's late mother once lived.
A campaign spokesman argued that because there was no net income, the rental proceeds did not need to be reported to the conflicts board. But the city administrative code states that lawmakers are required to report "any income of $1,000 or more from each source derived during the preceding calendar year." It also states that "real estate rents shall be reported with the source [tenant] identified by the building address."
The de Blasio campaign later pointed out that the candidate did disclose ownership of the two-family property on his financial disclosure form, although the address is redacted.
In 2004, Mr. de Blasio, his wife, Chirlane McCray, and his mother, Maria Wilhelm, purchased a two-family home at 384 11th St. in Park Slope, down the block from the couple's primary residence. The New York Times has reported that Mr. de Blasio moved his mother to the house. She died in 2007, and the home is now owned by Mr. de Blasio and Ms. McCray, records show.
Mr. de Blasio's 2011 tax return, which he previously made available to reporters, offers detailed information on Schedule E about the rental property and payments, but the piece of the 2012 return he made public did not include Schedule E and does not list rental income.
Labels: Bill DeBlasio, conflict of interest, houses, rentals, taxes
Laser interference on the rise
From WPIX:
The FBI is calling this a very serious and dangerous situation. Lasers can temporarily or permanently blind a pilot and crew.
There is a danger in the air, and it's hurting the crews piloting airplanes at New York-area airports.
According to the FBI, the number of laser incidents targeting airplanes and pilots are increasing in New York City. In fact they're up 17 percent since last year.
Law enforcement officials said the two most recent incidents happened on October 15, 2013. The first, at 7:35 p.m., involving Shuttle America flight 5973. In that instance, the FBI said, the aircraft cockpit was illuminated by a green laser on the final approach to La Guardia Airport.
The incident occurred approximately six miles from the runway, at 2,000 feet. The crew reported that the laser beam originated about a half mile west of the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.
The second incident occurred at 10:37 p.m. that same night. A private aircraft reported a green laser two miles southwest of La Guardia Airport while heading eastbound over the Triborough Bridge. The laser originated near the intersection of Broadway and Steinway Street in Queens.
No injuries were reported in either of those recent incidents at LGA, but several commercial pilots earlier this year suffered significant injury including a burnt retina.
Labels: airplane, Astoria, Bronx, FBI, LaGuardia, laser pointer, pilots
Gas pipeline hearing tonight
From Metro:
The first of two Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Public Hearings over a proposed Rockaway gas pipeline will be taking place at the Knights of Columbus Rockaway Council 267 at 333 Beach 90th Street starting at 7 p.m.
The pipeline, to be built by Williams Transco and National Grid, is being hit with much of the same criticism as the Spectra Pipeline planned for lower Manhattan.
Both pipelines would bring shale gas — produced by fracking — to the city. Opponents are complaining that the review period has not been long enough and that environmental and safety concerns are not being adequately considered.
This pipeline would be embedded in the ocean floor, run under the sandy bank of Riis Park Beach, cross below the Rockaway Inlet and continue up Flatbush avenue to a Metering and Regulation facility. The facility would be built in two of the old abandoned airplane hangars at Floyd Bennet Field.
Labels: energy, Floyd Bennett Field, hydrofracking, National Grid, natural gas, pipes, Riis Park, Rockaway
Decrepit traffic island to get some love
From Bayside Patch:
A small traffic island in front of the Long Island Rail Road station is getting upgraded after decades of neglect, state Sen. Tony Avella, D-Bayside said.
The senator said he noticed the dangerous conditions on the island while giving a recent press conference at the site.
The senator said it had always been assumed that the LIRR was responsible for the property, but it turned out to be under the city Department of Transportation's jurisdiction.
Avella said he contacted the DOT, which immediately improved the walk-through path on the island.
He has also asked the city's Department of Parks and Recreation to remove three dead trees on the island. The agency has said it would do so within 30 days.
Now, Avella is working with the Bayside Business Improvement District to develop a long-term strategy to enhance the island and repair the long neglected and vandalized "sun dial," which has been a main feature of the site.
Labels: Bayside, Department of Transportation, LIRR, Parks Department, Tony Avella, trees
Hipster shuttle bus now parked in Greenpoint
The magical blue bus that the notorious Knockdown Center/notorious Roberta's used to shuttle hipsters back and forth to the L train this summer was spotted recently on the street behind a high school in Greenpoint.
I believe the skull is a new addition.
Note the bottle of Smirnoff and the gas can in the center of the mess.
Yet more gas cans.
Amazing use of ratcheting tie-downs.
It all kind of fits in with Roberta's vibe, and Roberta's has been the exclusive caterer at the Knockdown Center thus far. Last year, Roberta's offered a menu that consisted of recipes containing marijuana and somehow kept their liquor license, even after bragging about it publicly. Perhaps they'll bring this avant-garde cuisine to Maspeth. After all, the manager of KDC once said:
"I think the Knockdown Center represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring something really unique and really special to Maspeth certainly, but also the New York community at large."
I'll say.
This was on the Knockdown Center's website until last week (Click for larger version):
Now it's gone. I wonder why. Perhaps it's because they really don't give a flying crap about Maspeth, or Queens, and it makes their clientele cringe when they pretend they do.
This whole operation stinks to high heaven, and I have just revealed the tip of the iceberg. Stay tuned. There's more to be uncovered...
Labels: alcohol, buses, gasoline, Greenpoint, knockdown center, Maspeth
That's quite a walk
Click photo for story.
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Labels: Maspeth, photography, Ridgewood, Sunnyside, webpage
Man dies in house without smoke alarms after fire
A deadly blaze that ripped through a two-story home in Queens Sunday killed one person and injured another, officials said.
The fire started in the cellar of a home on Springfield Blvd. in Queens Village around 2 p.m. and quickly spread up the first-floor staircase, fire officials said.
Fire officials don't know yet what sparked the blaze but said there were no working smoke detectors in the home.
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Labels: attic, cellar, death, fire, smoke detectors, Springfield Gardens
Cool sign on former First German Sport Club is gone
The First German Sport Club of Brooklyn is next door to yesterday's renovation project. It's been on the market for a long time. You can read some of its history here. It closed when a mafia gambling ring operating out of it got busted.
Yesterday, I noticed that the lettering on the sign was gone, and a "coming soon" sign is now on top of it advertising World Financial Center. I'm hoping they're moving from Himrod Street, but I'm not holding my breath. Someone really should fix that siding!
Labels: first german sport club, gambling, mafia, Ridgewood
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The head of the Sirsa-based sect is already serving a 20-year sentence for raping two women followers.
PANCHKULA: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim and three other persons were convicted for murdering journalist Ram Chander Chhatarpati by a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Court in Panchkula on Friday afternoon. The sentencing will be pronounced on Thursday, January 17.
The head of the Sirsa-based sect, who's currently serving a 20-year sentence for raping two women followers, has been named as the key conspirator in the killing of Dera follower Ranjit Singh.
A special CBI court in August 2017 sentenced Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim to 20 years in prison for raping two 'sadhvis' or female followers in 2002. Following the conviction of the 50-year-old self-styled godman, riots broke out in Panchkula and several parts of north India.
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iHeartRadio's Jingle Ball Adds Ed Sheeran And Taylor Swift To Top Of List
October 15, 2017 Jeremy	Leave a comment
Ed Sheeran is having a hell of a year. He released his third album and kicked it off by dropping the hit "Shape of You". The song has sold over 3 million units and has been certified five times platinum in the UK.
The annual iHeartRadio's Jingle Ball has been announced with Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift taking top slots. Other performances include Fall Out Boy, The Chainsmokers, Sam Smith and other pop acts.
The tour will include a 12 dates that will go throughout November and December. Tom Poleman, Chief Programming Officer for iHeartMedia said "The iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour has become a staple of the holiday season and one of the year's most anticipated events, with performances from today's most influential artists. With this year's lineup, the holiday concert event will once again bring the joy of the season to fans nationwide. Can't imagine a better way to end the year!"
106.1 KISS FM'S Jingle Ball; Dallas; November 28
The Chainsmokers, Charlie Puth, Kesha, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Camila Cabello, Julia Michaels and Why Don't We
WILD 94.9's Jingle Ball; San Francisco; November 30
Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas, Charlie Puth, Camila Cabello, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Julia Michaels and Why Don't We
102.7 KIISFM's Jingle Ball; Los Angeles, December 1
Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, The Chainsmokers, Sam Smith, Demi Lovato, Logic, Kesha, Niall Horan, Halsey, Charlie Puth and Liam Payne
101.3 KDWB's Jingle Ball; Minneapolis; December 4
Fall Out Boy, Kesha, Charlie Puth, Niall Horan, Camila Cabello, Liam Payne, Julia Michaels and Why Don't We
Q102's Jingle Ball; Philadelphia; December 6
The Chainsmokers, Fall Out Boy, Kesha, Halsey, Logic, Niall Horan, Charlie Puth, Liam Payne, Julia Michaels and Why Don't We
Z100's Jingle Ball; New York City; December 8
Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, The Chainsmokers, Sam Smith, Halsey, Fall Out Boy, Demi Lovato, Logic, Charlie Puth, Niall Horan, Camila Cabello, Liam Payne, Julia Michaels and Why Don't We
KISS 108's Jingle Ball; Boston, December 10
Fall Out Boy, Kelly Clarkson, Fifth Harmony, Halsey, Charlie Puth, Camila Cabello and Why Don't We
Hot 99.5's Jingle Ball; Washington D.C.; December 11
Fall Out Boy, Kesha, Logic, Zedd, Charlie Puth, Camila Cabello, Liam Payne, Julia Michaels and Why Don't We
103.5 KISSFM's Jingle Ball; Chicago; December 13
The Chainsmokers, Demi Lovato, Charlie Puth, Kesha, Camila Cabello, Liam Payne, Julia Michaels and Why Don't We
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Demi Lovato, Logic, Zedd, Fifth Harmony, Nick Jonas, Charlie Puth, Camila Cabello, Liam Payne, Julia Michaels and Why Don't We
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