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State Senator Jessica Ramos dealt a serious blow Tuesday to New York Mets owner Steve Cohen’s dream of building a massive casino and entertainment complex on the parking lot adjoining Citi Field where Shea Stadium once stood.
Ramos announced she would not support the $8 billion Metropolitan Park proposal, rejecting major pressure from her colleagues in government, including Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, and community leaders from nearby neighborhoods, who urged her to support permitted use legislation that would be required to build the complex on public parkland.
“I will not introduce legislation to alienate parkland in Corona for the purposes of a casino. Whether people rallied for or against Metropolitan Park, I heard the same dreams for Corona,” Ramos said in a statement. “We want investment and opportunity, we are desperate for green space, and recreation for the whole family. We disagree on the premise that we have to accept a casino in our backyard as the trade-off. I resent the conditions and the generations of neglect that have made many of us so desperate that we would be willing to settle.”
QNS reached out to Cohen’s Metropolitan Park team and is awaiting a response. Ramos is moving ahead with new legislation that would authorize the City of New York to allow development on the 50 acres of parking lot that is technically part of Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
“I have drafted an alternative alienation bill that strikes a balance and would allow Mr. Cohen and Hard Rock to build a convention center and hotel, and more than double the proposed open green space,” Ramos said. “The parcel in question is in strategic proximity to LaGuardia Airport and allows for visitors and tourists to feed into our vibrant food scene while addressing the consequence of climate change in the area. Mr. Cohen and Hard Rock would still make a profit, albeit less.”
Assemblymember Jeffrion Aubry introduced his own parkland alienation bill last March, and signed on to a letter with Richards and Council Member Francisco Moya on May 20 urging her to advance a companion bill in the Senate to allow Metropolitan Park to move forward with the community review process.
“I hope my Assembly counterpart will consider this proposal so we can bring it to the Governor’s office and get to work,” Ramos said. “I recommend the City amend the lease to collect revenue from property tax and allow for speedy renovation of this parcel.”
Ramos concluded her statement by directly addressing the billionaire hedge fund manager and richest owner in Major League Baseball. Mr. Cohen and his team have often declared their love for our community and said they recognize our potential,” Ramos said. “Finding a path forward would be a good way to show it.”
Richards fired back in a statement of his own soon after Ramos made her announcement on Tuesday morning. “There is very little generational wealth in Northwest Queens, where survival work is prevalent, public services are lacking and hard-working immigrant street vendors are displaced and demonized,” Richards said. “That’s why the families of this community so badly deserve the 25,000 good-paying union jobs, the $163 million community investment fund, the Taste of Queens food hall designed for borough-based vendors, critical support for community-based organizations, rising property values and more that the Metropolitan Park proposal puts forth.”
Ramos held three heavily attended town hall meetings since last May gauging community feedback on the Metropolitan Park proposal while Richards worked behind the scenes to bring a new economic engine to the borough.
“We are in a state of emergency in Northwest Queens, which was hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and which continues to struggle as the cost of living rises. The Metropolitan Park proposal will create countless avenues for generational wealth building right here in Corona, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and other communities surrounding the proposed site, which is currently a parking lot that sits empty for more than 200 days per year,” Richards said. “By no means should acres of asphalt block the ascending of financial and societal ladders to the middle class by families deserving of upward mobility.”
Cohen’s team presented the Metropolitan Park plans at a Ramos town hall at the New York Hall of Science in February, outlining more than $1 billion in community benefits while making it clear that the entire proposal depended on state approval of one of three downstate full casino licenses that will be awarded late next year. The Ramos announcement has put the Cohen plan in peril, much to the dismay of the borough president.
“Queens is growing like never before, and we must never turn our backs on unprecedented economic development opportunities for communities that have historically been left behind,” Richards concluded. “No one single elected official should be the sole arbiter of this $8 billion investment in our borough, so I strongly urge Governor Hochul and the State Senate to explore other avenues in order to bring the Metropolitan Park proposal to life and ensure that Queens continues to get the money we are owed and deserve.”
Sen. Ramos delivers potential death blow to Mets owner’s dream of a casino alongside Citi Field – QNS
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Quacking for help: Maspeth duck finds a new home thanks to neighborly allies
 
Christina Wilkinson says it was on Mother’s Day when she first spotted what appeared to be a female Mallard duck sleeping behind the fence of Mount Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth.
The duck was discovered with some missing feathers and near a bowl of water, in desperate need of help. That’s when Wilkinson tried to seek help from animal rescue centers, but the holiday made it challenging to find timely assistance.
The next day, Wilkinson returned to where she first saw the duck, but it was nowhere to be found. However, on May 19, Wilkinson received a call from Tony Nunziato, President of Juniper Park Civic Association, about a duck spotted around Grand Avenue near the cemetery gates.
Maspeth locals shared concerns with Nunziato about the duck, noting that its wings were clipped and it was being harassed by crows.
“It was then that my husband Steve and I, having never done this before, decided we would attempt a duck rescue,” Wilkinson told QNS.
The duck darted past the group, flew just beyond their reach, and outmaneuvered its way from its rescuers’ grasps. After some time and persistence, Wilkinson says they managed to back the duck into a corner while her husband, Steve Garza threw a blanket over it.
Once in possession of the Mallard, which was later given the suggested name of Olivette, Wilkinson says it was then guided into a carrier.
Two other residents who approached the rescue team suggested the duck be taken to the Wild Bird Fund (WBF) in Manhattan.
New information provided following the trip to the WBF actually identified Olivette as a Rouen duck, which is identified as a domesticated duck with limited survivability in the wild. Therefore, the WBF couldn’t accept Olivette into their care.
The alternative would be to take Olivette to the Animal Care Centers of New York (ACC) located on E 110th Street, in Manhattan.
Eventually, the ACC gave Olivette a clean bill of health and Humane Long Island, an animal activist organization and domestic fowl rescue, pulled Olivette from the shelter to find her forever home.
As of Friday, May 24, Olivette has been placed in her forever home through the Humane Long Island organization. 
The org has specifically worked on an international Duck Defenders Project, which was featured in National Geographic.
It is believed that ducklings are often given as gifts to celebrate the Easter holiday, and the unwanted ducks are often left abandoned. Olivette may have been part of a much larger issue in animal care, but no longer, thanks to a combined effort from Maspeth natives and rescue groups.
https://qns.com/2024/05/quacking-for-help-maspeth-duck-finds-a-new-home-thanks-to-neighborly-allies/
 

On Tuesday, after more than three decades in business, the final credits rolled at the South Bronx’s Concourse Plaza Multiplex Cinemas, which represented one of only two operational movie theaters in the borough. Now, The Bronx — home to some 1.44 million people — has just one cinema within its borders.
“It has been our pleasure to serve the Bronx community with great movie-going for many years,”  the Concourse, which was one of 19 locations operated by the four-state theater chain Showcase Cinemas, posted on Facebook. “Due to a business decision, May 28, 2024 will be our last day of cinema operations. We thank you for your patronage and hope you have made wonderful movie memories at our cinema.” 
With this location now gone, the AMC Bay Plaza Cinema 13, located within Baychester’s Mall at Bay Plaza — about 10 miles away — is officially The Bronx’s last remaining movie theater. 
The shuttering is not shocking, considering how many theaters have closed nationally in recent years (5% shut down between 2019 and 2022 alone, according to the National Cinema Foundation), with Queens’ quarter-century-old College Point Multiplex Cinemas dropping its final curtain just a few weeks ago. 

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When I was a teenager, I was sexually attracted to men in their 30s and 40s; when I was that age, I was attracted to the same types; I am now 81, and I am still attracted to men in their 30s and 40s. I don't have an aversion to cute twinks or to wrinkled old men--I am just not sexually attracted to them.

A Japanese man who shelled out over $14,000 on a realistic dog costume so he could become a border collie now says he hopes to fulfill his “dream” of turning into a different animal.
Toco the Human Collie said the challenges of moving like a dog have led him to consider imitating a host of other animals, as well.
“Dogs and humans have different bone structures and the way they bend their legs and arms, so it’s very difficult to make movements that look like this,” Toco said.
“I might realistically be able to become another dog, a panda or a bear,” Toco told Japanese news outlet WanQol. “A fox or a cat would also be nice, but they are too small for humans to try.”

Angel Hernandez, whom the other umpires love because he supposed to be the most wonderful person, is retiring immediately.

The personal trainer in the video is hot hot hot!!!  They show his amazing ass and vpl in the jock sock he wears.
 

I didn't Matt was a  better singer than  Karen Carpenter 
 
To be fair I never listened to Karen Carpenter 

Absolutely an AI face. And Mr. Shukla doesn't need to be enhanced; he looks fine as is. Yum!