Queens Best Week Ever 4/19

If you didn’t manage to pick up your copies of this week’s papers at Associated, we’re here for you, and we can save you the trouble of recycling.

This week in Queens, Rebecca Henley of TimesLedger fame lets us know that

about three-fourths of Elmhurst straphangers were interested in the neighborhood having its own station on the Long Island Rail Road, although just as many had not heard of the proposal….

It seems a new station is still in its pipe dream phase, but with Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) on the case, it could eventually become a reality.

In Corona, you all heard about the little girl who was forgotten on the school bus.

Police told the TimesLedger that [bus driver Sandra] Garcia missed the girl while checking the bus, locked up and went home. Officers called to the scene broke a bus window to get to the child, who they believe was left in the bus for about 15 minutes.

An Astoria restaurant was jacked [TimesLedger]

And Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) continues his crusade against blight in his district, targeting massage parlors in Dutch Kills including Smile Dawa.

The voice mailbox for Smile Dawa was full when TimesLedger Newspapers called. The manager for Asian Body Work was not available for comment.

The Queens Ledger reports on a little boy in Woodside who is allergic to everything.

KeVaughn “K.E.” Plunkett, now in fourth grade at P.S. 229, suffers from a rare medical condition called eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorder, in which his white blood cells attack food as if it is a parasite.

K.E. lives through a feeding tube in his stomach, and currently has only five safe foods – potatoes, rice, apples, corn and some pork. He survives mostly on a formula called Elecare.

However, he will soon try his first hamburger, said his mother Colleen Plunkett

Most of the papers are writing about The Grace Meng Rory Lancman controversy, but only the Queens Tribune has this Twitter screen shot of the online battle that has exposed racial tension in the district.

The Queens Chronicle’s Alan Krawitz gives us the 411 on just exactly how pissed off Queens Condo owners are about the dramatic increase in their property valuations. They were saying all sorts of things, including

Calling the city’s Department of Finance the “Department of Fantasy,” and saying that the agency’s property valuation numbers make “no sense,” Glen Oaks Village President Bob Friedrich presided over a packed town hall meeting last Thursday at North Shore Towers in Floral Park.

In what seems like a Queens Chronicle exclusive, the paper reveals Sunnyside residents are angry about the smell of fumes coming from an area mechanic.

Gabriel Auto Body at 43-05 39 St., confirmed that he used to paint cars on the premises. However, he no longer does, after receiving a fine from the Department of Environmental Protection in January for $2,000.

“Since that time, I don’t paint cars in my place. No more. The community inspectors come all the time, they check and now they won’t see nothing,” Sanchez said.

“I’m painting the cars in another place, because I have complaints in my shop,” he added.“When I paint the cars before, they smell the paint, the thinner. I’m painting cars in another place, in a special spray booth …”

Someone was jacked in LIC [Queens Chronicle]

Union workers showed up at Community Board 2, requesting their support in a battle against TF Cornerstone in LIC. According to the Chronicle, the CB2 seemed supportive of the workers demands for unionization.

And this, just in from the Queens Chronicle: you will soon be able to hail a livery cab in Queens.