Our city is in peril and we need a change of course. This epic battle will play out on November 3rd when voters make their feelings known at the ballot box. We can change the dangerous direction our city is headed with a strong message, “Vote Republican” in the General Election.
Posted: Thursday, August 20, 2015 10:30 am
The building at 89-39 Gettysburg St. in Bellerose, just north of Braddock Avenue, for years was the office of former state Sen. Frank Padavan.
Signs in the window now advertise it as a spa, open from 10 to 11. It doesn’t specify either a.m. or p.m.
Resident Michelle Knowles was dubious.
“I went in and asked ‘How much for a facial?’” Knowles said. “They said ‘No, no, no facial.’”
They also said they did not do nails.
“The man said ‘Only massage,’” she said.
Residents gathered outside the spa on Monday, calling for the city to take action against between five and seven such establishments they say have opened nearby in recent months.
Joe Concannon, who is running for the Republicans in the 23rd Council District special election in the fall, came out to support them. The retired NYPD captain said he is certain police are investigating the matter.
Bur he also said at least three other city agencies could have acted to shut them down, calling the NYPD the agency of last resort.
He said Consumer Affairs could act on the fact that there is not a required list of services and prices inside; that the Department of Buildings or Health and Mental Hygiene likely could find enough violations.
“This is another quality-of-life issue in which Mayor de Blasio has let us down,” Concannon said. He added that the state’s Department of State has the authority to check for the license of each masseuse in a business.
QV Clubbers enjoy lunch in 19th Century opulence at the Douglaston Club built in 1819
They say you can’t live in the past, but for one day, our Club was able to turn back the hands of the clock. Trying to make the point that outstanding tourist attractions can be visited with out leaving home, our Club organized an all-day bus excursion to six historic sites in Queens.
GENERAL CLUB MEETING: THURS, SEPT. 3, 2015 AT 7:30 PM
Guest Speaker: Ed Jaworski, President, Madison-Marine-Homecrest Civic Association (Brooklyn) – See bio below.
DeBlasio’s Affordable Housing Initiative and How it will Negatively Affect the Character of our Neighborhoods.
Meeting at Knights of Columbus – St. Anne’s Council
263-15 Union Turnpike, Glen Oaks
COMMUNITY PROTEST
ORGANIZED BY QUEENS VILLAGE CIVIC ASSOCIATION, Other Civic Organizations and Concerned Residents
STOP The Juvenile Offender Facility or Juvenile Prison from BEING DUMPED IN A RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY.
THESE YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS HAVE COMMITTED ASSAULTS, MUGGINGS, ROBBERY, DRUGS, GANG AND OTHER CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
THIS MUST BE STOPPED
Joe Concannon, a retired NYPD captain and U.S. Air Force Veteran running for Mark Weprin’s City Council seat, said he sympathized with the family but that the families of the three police officers who were killed this year did not receive such a settlement.
Posted: Thursday, July 2, 2015 10:30 am
by Liz Rhoades, Managing Editor
The following Letter to the Editor by Queens Village Republican Club member, Fred Bedell was published in the Queens Ledger and all eight of its publications.
City Council candidate and former NYPD captain Joe Concannon, left, shakes hands with John Carroll, a Ridgewood resident who saved an American flag from being burned by protesters in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park on Thursday.
Posted: Thursday, July 2, 2015 5:41 pm | Updated: 8:15 pm, Thu Jul 2, 2015.
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