Deadly motorcycle crash in Glendale

It was reported this morning that a 38-year-old motorcyclist was killed after crashing into another biker on Cypress Avenue in Glendale early Sunday morning.

According to reports, David Malave was riding eastbound on Cypress Avenue at 4:10 a.m. when he hit the curb structure gonflable and crashed into a 43-year-old motorcyclist stopped at the light at the corner of Cypress Avenue and Cypress Hills Street.

Both were rushed to Jamaica Hospital where Malave was pronounced dead on arrival.

The 43-year-old man was not injured in the crash. [Courier]

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Musica Reginae fundraiser at Finback this weekend!

Musica Reginae, a Queens-based nonprofit devoted to promoting contemporary classical music, is partnering with the newly opened Finback Brewery in Glendale for a fundraising event this weekend.

The “brewery takeover” invites donors to an evening of beer tasting, a brewery tour and a night of classical music on Sunday, September 28, at 7 p.m. at Finback Brewery, 78-01 77th Avenue. Tickets are $35 per person and $65 for couples.

“It’s a wonderful time in Queens where we can have fresh beer from these new breweries that have popped up, but we also have fresh music from some local composers,” said Musica Reginae president Dan Olson.

In preparation of the group’s 14th season and a performance by The Kronos Quartet in May, Olson said he hopes the event this weekend will help attract a younger audience to the genre.

“This is the modern face of trying to take classical music and market it to a younger audience,” he said.

In addition to the night of beer sampling, raffles and other activities, food will also be available from Gendale’s Zum Stammtisch.

Finback Brewery co-founder Basil Lee said their corporate sponsorship with Musica Reginae is just the beginning of the brewery’s community outreach.

“I think it is really important castillo hinchable to be a part of your neighborhood and your community, and I think beer often goes well with that,” Lee said.

He added that the brewery helped raise $500 for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s organization with a special fundraising event at their tasting room just last weekend.

“We are definitely looking to do more things locally,” he added.

Space is limited so be sure to RSVP at info@musicareginae.org or (718) 689-9390. [GR]

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CB5 votes for a school but the city still has “no interest”

Despite interest in pursuing a school campus at and around 78-16 Cooper Avenue by Community Board 5 and Councilwoman Elizabeth bouncy castle Crowley, the Department of Education remains unmoved.

“We appreciate the CB’s work in putting forth a resolution, but we have no interest in this site,” said DOE representative Marge Feinberg.

Similarly, a Department of Homeless Services spokesman said plans to house families with children at the site will move forward. [GR]

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GoFundMe fundraiser to stop the Glendale homeless shelter

10636170_10203671836090895_8867293851383516310_nThe Glendale Middle Village Coalition announced they have raised $14,000 in legal fees to “prevent the warehousing of homeless bouncy castle families” at the proposed transitional housing facility site at 78-16 Cooper Ave. in Glendale, however they are looking to raise significantly more.

Formed to create a united voice against the proposed shelter, the group started a GoFundMe site to raise $100,000, which they say would be enough to “protect” the community. The website currently shows the group has only raised $900.

For more 365toy information, the GMVC has scheduled a meeting for Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the Christ the King High School cafeteria, located at 68-02 Metropolitan Ave.

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Glendale set to receive $7 million sewer upgrade.

Screen Shot 2014-09-11 at 9.58.42 AMAt the monthly meeting of Community Board 5 on Wednesday at Christ the King H.S., Gary Giordano announced that the Department of Environmental Protection will be upgrading the sewer lines under 69th Street from Calamus Avenue to Queens Boulevard, with the project beginning sometime near 365toy the end of the month.

“This is a $20 million plus project,” Giordano said.

One of the challenges to the project, according to Giordano, is that, “Con Ed’s got a lot of electrical lines to move up there.”

Giordano also mentioned a planned $7 million sewer renovation project that will come to Glendale soon. He said members of CB5 met with DEP about the need for a more accommodating sewer system shortly after storms caused significant flooding on Aug. 8, 2007. In that meeting, the agency told him and his colleagues that they were working towards upgrading the system from the bottom up, and there would likely be no work completed in Middle Village until at least 2015.

“Glendale is connected to, I believe, or flows to three different sewage treatment plants,” Giordano explained, saying that this situation made the bouncy castle system in Glendale more complicated than other systems in the area.

While he was appreciative of the efforts made to alleviate sewage flow issues in CB5 to date, he looks forward to the day when DEP comes up with a long-term plan.

“They’ve cleaned out a lot of the sewer lines, the catch basins, but they have not yet found a permanent solution,” Giordano said.

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CB5 passes resolution in support of school campus on Cooper Avenue

All but three present members voted in favor of a resolution to support construction of a school campus in Glendale at the most recent monthly meeting of Community Board 5 on Wed., September 10 at Christ the King High School.

“We’ve been asked to indicate what we feel about a school there. The School Construction Authority has reached out to the owners of the property who have structure gonflable not really responded. We’ve come up with this resolution,” said Land Use Committee Chair Walter Sanchez, who noted that Community School District 24 is one of the most overcrowded in the city.

The resolution notes that the School Construction Authority has expressed interest in the area before, but found the site unfit for a school due to the low Cooper Avenue overpass and the Chemical Plant next door. Now, with the overpass problem resolved, the Land Use Committee of the board believes the city could push eminent domain to take over the contested 78-16 Cooper Ave. shelter, the Independent Chemical Corporation and the building occupied by Hansel & Gretel.

Board Chairman Vincent Arcuri and members Ted Renz and Jean Tanler voted against the resolution.

Arcuri didn’t give his reasons for voting against, but said before the vote,”We were informed by the DOE that they would not look at the 78-16 site because it has a lease,” later adding, “Eminent domain takes up to five years. The Samaritan Village contract is for five years. So, we could have a shelter for five years and then have a school.”

Tanler asked if the site wouldn’t be more suited to industrial business.

A central motivator for the giochi gonfiabili resolution, said Sanchez, is that those who drafted it believe the environmental assessment recently completed by an independent contractor to the Department of Homeless Services is “bogus.”

And if the site needs remediation, he said, “Nobody does it better than the SCA.”

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