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By Mark Hallum

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Community Board 11 approved the proposal for a new group home in Douglaston to assist people in the community who are developmentally challenged with life skills to live independent and productive lives.

CB11 approved the motion to allow Services for the UnderServed to operate out of a former rectory at 45-14 245th St. owned by St. Anastasia with a nearly unanimous vote and will assist eight individuals with day-to-day living.

“People get training everyday on how to take care of their home, how to take care of themselves and how to become productive citizens in the community,” Doris Figueroa, senior vice president of developmental disabilities services at SUS, said. “We try to keep [the residents] with the community. Their families are from Queens. We try not to relocate them if there’s not a need.”

SUS has several similar facilities across the city. Figueroa said the eight residents are being moved from another facility that is larger, but lacks some of the accessibility standards needed for the residents.

About $450,000 will be spent renovating the former church annex since the building will need to be made more accessible to people with special needs, including upgrades to the kitchen, bedrooms and doorways. SUS is currently in lease negotiations with St. Anastasia, but hopes to be in operation within a year to serve four men and four women from other parts of the borough.

The facility is about 3,000 square feet with two floors.

Although the motion passed CB11’s Group Homes and Community Facilities Committee unanimously, it was met with some criticism from board member Stephen Pivawer, who had wanted a more senior leader in the organization to attend the Monday meeting. He also requested SUS provide financial reports to the community board showing what the funds for the organization, which comes from the state, are used for.

Pivawer voiced concerns over funds going only to salaries and not to the people living in the facility.

“He’s looking at the financials, he’s looking at the tax returns and asking how much money goes to salaries, which is public record,” Steven Myricks, director of Facilities Administration, said. “But what I don’t think he takes into account is how much money it takes to take care of an individual who can’t take care themselves.”

Myricks explained the facility will have to hire a variety of specialized staff to care for the residents on a 24/7 basis.

He said the main public concern regarding facilities for the mentally challenged stems from the Willowbrook State School scandal in which a Staten Island facility for intellectually disabled individuals was exposed by reporters for keeping residents in extremely negligent conditions.

U.S, Sen. Robert Kennedy, in the 1960s, once toured the Willowbrook facility and described overcrowded and filthy conditions in which residents were forced to live.

Hepatitis A outbreaks were common in Willowbrook. At its height, Willowbrook housed 6,000 residents with a capacity of only 4,000.

Willowbrook was closed by the early 1990s.

“Everybody said, ‘No, humans can’t live like this.’ And that’s when they started giving awards and funding to not-for-profits to provide smaller environments where they can actually integrate back into the community, have better services and better care,” Myricks said.

The Douglaston facility will be subject to yearly state inspections.

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By Gina Martinez

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Despite promises it would be completed this spring, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s online bail payment system has been pushed back to 2018.

City Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Hillcrest) expressed outrage over the delay after the new April 2018 deadline was announced last week by Elizabeth Glazer, the director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, at a Fire and Criminal Justice committee hearing. Lancman said this marks the third time the city has failed to meet its own deadline for an online payment system.

The councilman said the city first announced plans for the online bail payment system in November 2016 and said it would be available systemwide by spring 2017. By June the online bail payment system still had not launched and the administration said “we expect that the contract will be signed shortly and that online bail payments will be live in the coming months.”

A few months later in October 2017 the payment system still had not taken effect and the Wall Street Journal reported the mayor’s office was predicting it would be introduced by year’s end.

Finally this week Glazer announced a new 2018 deadline.

Lancman said the delays affect people struggling to get out of jail and is adding to the growing incarceration problem in New York City.

“It is a profound disappointment that the de Blasio administration has once again failed to meet its own deadline to have the online bail payment system up and running,” he said. “Too many New Yorkers are stuck on Rikers Island solely because the process to pay bail is such a nightmare. The city’s inability to bring the bail payment process into the 21st century is only adding to the problem of unnecessary and expensive incarceration.”

According to Ben Sarle, a spokesman for the mayor, the city is firing on all cylinders to reduce the number of people in jail. Sarle said the delay was caused in part by efforts to make the system more effective and available to everyone. He also pointed out that de Blasio’s actions have resulted in a historically low jail population and the number of people detained on bail of $2,000 or less has fallen by 36 percent since 2013.

“The online bail project required the city to modernize an antiquated system that suffered through lengthy periods of under-investment by prior administrations, and some aspects of the procurement process took longer than expected,” he said. “We will have kiosks in all the boroughs, which will allow people who don’t have access to the Internet at home, to simply go to a kiosk to post bail immediately and not have to take off a day of work to do so.”

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By Annabelle Blair

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Bramson ORT, the 40-year-old technical college in Forest Hills that lost accreditation and closed in February, was considered financially unhealthy and failed to meet six of 13 standards outlined by the New York State Education Department Board of Regents.

According to a report issued by the department, Bramson had been viewed as financially unstable since 2015. The classification was based on the college’s composite score of 0.8 in 2015 and 0.6 in 2016. The composite score is used by the U.S. Department of Education to determine whether or not a school is financially responsible. A score under 1.0 means an institution is financially unhealthy.

The composite score is based on financial statements accredited institution are required to send the Department of Education in order to receive federal funding under Title IV—which includes Pell grants, subsidized and unsubsidized loans, the Perkins Loan and the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant.

The college had been under a Heightened Cash Monitoring by the U.S. Department of Education since at least 2015, documents show.

The HCM watch imposed on Bramson restricted the college from using an Advance Payment Method to receive federal funds for student aid. Instead, it was required to use institutional funds to provide aid to students before submitting a request to the Department of Education for reimbursement. Bramson was connected to World ORT, a global Jewish organization promoting education. Brandon Mitchell, a spokesman at World ORT’s American branch, said he thought Bramson struggled to maintain a sizable student body. “We knew they were attempting to meet some difficult challenges,” Mitchell said. “Enrollment was a challenge. That might be the only one I recall.”

Before its closure, Bramson’s enrollment rates had declined by more than 30 percent since 2010 to about 470 students in the fall of 2016.

Bramson’s low composite score was noted in the Board of Regents’ decision in January to deny the college accreditation. The college’s failure, however, to comply with six of the 13 requirements for accreditation ultimately determined the board’s decision.

Since 2013, Bramson had struggled to uphold several of the Board’s requirements. It was put on a two-year probation at the end of 2013, which meant quarterly reports and another review, to ensure it was working towards meeting all 13 requirements.

In April 2016, the Board of Regents’s advisory council reviewed Bramson’s probation and voted to deny accreditation, saying “the institution has been found to be out of compliance over several years, by three peer review visit teams. ”

Bramson appealed the review in May 2016 on the grounds that it was unreasonable. The state deputy commissioner added her recommendation to deny accreditation in November 2016.

The state DOE report said “the commissioner found that Bramson was not in compliance with the standards for institutional accreditation, nor had the college shown good cause for the corrective action period to be extended.”

The Board of Regents then voted in January 2017 to deny Bramson accreditation. It later extended Bramson’s accreditation to the end of February for students who were scheduled to graduate that month. Bramson did not appeal this decision.

An ORT sister college in Chicago, Ill. the Chicago ORT Technical Institute, closed in August. Its website does not state the reason why.

“On a national scale, the demand for technical schools has decreased,” a release from ORT America stated about the closures. “Diminishing enrollment, an upsurge in community college programs and other factors have played roles in this trend, leaving the two ORT facilities with the difficult decision to cease operations.”

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By Terry Pouymari and Henry Euler

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The Auburndale Improvement Association wishes to publicly thank the 111th Police Precinct for its recent actions to remediate problems with many of the auto dealerships and some of the other auto-related businesses along Northern Boulevard in Bayside. The police have also made many other attempts to address problems with these businesses over the years.

Our thanks also extend to Sen. Tony Avella, Assembly member Ed Braunstein and Council member Peter Vallone for their support in addressing all of the complaints that this civic organization receives regarding these auto businesses. We have been working for years trying to get these businesses to mend their ways and to become good neighbors to the residents of the area.

We have also worked with Community Board 11 and other civic groups including the Bayside Clear Spring Council headed by Mandingo Tshaka. You would think that with all of this community cooperation, conditions would improve. Unfortunately, problems still continue that adversely affect local residents.

It is not our goal to put any of these companies out of business. All that we ask is that they obey the law, that they follow conditions in their certificates of occupancy and/or variances and that they be considerate of the residents of the community.

This civic organization will continue to advocate for the residents and cooperate with city agencies and elected officials in trying to resolve these issues.

These auto-related businesses are not worlds onto themselves.

They are part of the community and must act in a responsible manner that shows respect for the residents who live near these businesses.

Terri Pouymari, President

Henry Euler, First Vice President

Auburndale Improvement Association, Inc.

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By Mark Hallum

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A Port Authority official elaborated on plans to overhaul LaGuardia Airport Monday that included a feasibility study of Willets Point for an AirTrain connection from the Long Island Rail Road, redevelopments of terminals and on-site hotels.

Port Authority Director of Aviation Huntley Lawrence discussed the demand-driven nature of the expansion and the implications it could have on the surrounding communities with Borough President Melinda Katz and community board heads at Borough Hall.

The AirTrain proposal is currently under study by a consultant and the next steps will be an environmental study by the federal government and required public outreach. This would link LaGuardia to Midtown Manhattan via the LIRR, which Lawrence claims will reduce traffic in the surrounding residential neighborhoods.

It will also provide visitors with transportation to a consolidated rental car facility at Willets Point.

Access to LaGuardia would be improved with left turn safety upgrades of Marine Air Terminal Road and other improvements to three intersections along this corridor.

A parking garage on the west side with 3,200 spots has already been erected from precast segments and should be complete by the first quarter of 2018, he said.

Lawrence said the upgrades would make Queens more than just fly-over territory for frequent travelers, who often prefer prolonged stays in other airline hubs, such as Denver, with a hotel for both LaGuardia and JFK.

“Business travelers tell us they literally fly in, have a meeting at the airport and fly back home,” the rep said. “Of course, as a region, we like make them to fly in, stay a couple days and spend a lot of money on hotels and other things… That’s what we see at other places like Dallas and Denver. We want to start competing on the same level.”

These hotels would be for budget travelers and would not take business away from hotels in the surrounding communities, Lawrence said.

Modernized cargo facilities at JFK will account for a $70 million investment while $62 million will go to taxi-way upgrades for cargo planes.

Port Authority has about $10 billion set aside for overall improvements to on-airport developments which include the hotel and terminal overhauls at JFK. Road access and Van Wyck Expressway expansion will account for about $2 billion of this.

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By Zach Gewelb

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With the hot stove temperature still set to cool, baseball’s offseason has left fans waiting for big news to break. While we wait, I wanted to take a trip down memory lane and take a look at some Mets history.

The Mets have been around for a long time. They joined the league as an expansion team in 1962.

And since then, the Amazins’ have had a lot of great players come through Queens to don the Mets uniform.

Here are the top players at each position in franchise history.

Tom Seaver – Starting Pitcher

One of the greatest pitchers of his generation, Tom Seaver, also known as “The Franchise,” spent the first 10-plus years of his career with the Mets.

During those 10 years, he won three Cy Young awards, was named the Rookie of the Year and made nine All-Star teams.

He helped lead New York to its first ever World Series team in 1969 and tossed 171 complete games in his Mets career.

He was a no-doubt, first-ballot Hall of Famer, receiving 98.8 percent of the vote, still the highest ever, and is the only player to ever go to Cooperstown as a Met. Seaver was inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame in 1988.

*Honorable Mention: Dwight Gooden

John Franco – Relief Pitcher

The lefty closer spent 15 years with the Mets after the team acquired him in a trade with the Reds before the 1990 season.

He was named a team captain in 2001 and complied 424 career saves, which only trails Mariano Rivera (652), Trevor Hoffman (601), Lee Smith (478) and Francisco Rodriguez (437) on the leaderboard.

Franco was eligible for the Hall of Fame for the first time in 2011, but received less than 5 percent of the vote and was dropped off the ballot. While he may not have been truly dominant, his longevity, coupled with his commitment to the Mets organization during and after his playing days, made him an easy choice.

He was inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame in 2012.

*Honorable Mention: Tug McGraw

Mike Piazza – Catcher

Piazza signed with the Mets before the 1998 season.

His time with the team made him one of the most beloved Mets of all time.

Piazza, one of the greatest hitting catchers to ever play the game, was named an All-Star seven times and provided one of the great moments in franchise history when he slugged a go-ahead home run against the Atlanta Braves on Sept. 21, 2001, the first major sporting event in New York following the 9/11 attack.

He stayed with the Mets until 2005 and was eventually elected to the Hall of Fame in 2016. He was inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame in 2013.

*Honorable Mention: Gary Carter

Keith Hernandez – First Base

Hernandez arrived in Queens following a mid-season trade with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1983. The sweet-swinging, slick-fielding first baseman made an instant impact with the Mets, and even finished second in the MVP voting in 1984.

Hernandez won six Gold Gloves in Queens and was a key member of the 1986 World Series team. He was inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame in 1997 and is currently a member of the Mets’ SNY broadcast team.

*Honorable Mention: Ed Kranepool

Edgardo Alfonzo – Second Base

Alfonzo came up through the Mets system as a third basemen, but saw some time at second base upon reaching the big leagues.

He spent his first two seasons as a utility infielder before breaking out in 1997, when he hit .315 with a .391 on-base percentage. He continued to put up steady numbers throughout the remainder of his Mets tenure, which ended after the 2002 season when he signed with the San Francisco Giants as a free agent.

His final season in the big leagues came in 2006, but he has since transitioned to coaching. He is currently the manager of the Brooklyn Cyclones, the Mets’ short-season Single-A affiliate.

*Honorable Mention: Wally Backman

David Wright – Third Base

Wright has been the face of the franchise since first donning the Mets uniform in 2004 and is one of the most beloved figures in the team’s history. Wright has compiled a .296/.376/.491 batting line with 242 home runs, 970 RBI and 196 stolen bases in his 13-year career. While those numbers probably don’t give Wright a ticket to the Hall of Fame, they demand respect.

His performance on the field and his leadership ability are why he was named the Mets’ captain back in 2013. Injuries have slowed down Wright since then, but he’s been the perfect ambassador for the organization and has etched his place in Mets history. Look for him, like John Franco before him, to continue to be a part of the organization after his playing days are over.

*Honorable Mention: Howard Johnson

Jose Reyes – Shortstop

Reyes joined the Mets when he was 20 years old in 2003 and electrified Queens with his speed and flare on and off the field. He stayed with the Mets through the 2011 season and left as a free agent to join the Marlins after hitting a career-best .337. He spent one year in Miami before a trade sent him to Toronto. He was dealt again in 2015, this time to Colorado, where his career hit a snag.

He clearly lost a step on the field and he was suspended under Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy, which led to his departure. He was released by Colorado and came back to Queens, where he played in 2016 and 2017. While he’s not the same player he once was, Mets fans will always remember Reyes’ contributions in the mid-2000s.

*Honorable Mention: Bud Harrelson

Darryl Strawberry – Outfield

Strawberry may go down as one of the best pure hitters to don a Mets uniform. He joined the big league club in 1983 and won the National League Rookie of the Year. Strawberry hit at least 26 home runs in his first four seasons before taking his game to the next level in 1987, when he set career highs in home runs (39) and batting average (.284). He also stole 36 bases, which made him one of two players in Mets history to hit at least 30 home runs and steal at least 30 bases in one season.

Strawberry elected to sign with the Dodgers after the 1989 season and finished his career in the Bronx with the Yankees. But he will always be remembered one of the best players to ever wear a Mets and he was inducted to the team’s Hall of Fame in 2010.

*Honorable Mention: Carlos Beltran

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By Merle Exit

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Artist Dennis Cady is presently exhibiting his art work, “Endangered Nature,” at the Long Island City branch of the CUNY School of Law.

The exhibit opened Nov. 1 and will be on display until Jan. 1, 2018.

Cady is a landscape painter working in a variety of media: watercolor, oils, monoprints, woodcuts and linocuts.

The exhibition is part of the CUNY Law School’s gallery program for artists who are committed to the Law School’s mission of social justice, which includes the environment.

“Nature without man’s presence is my ideal, because man has exploited nature for profit. In this process, the planet and its inhabitants are suffering Global warming is occurring, people are being forced to live in a toxic and dangerous environment, particularly the most vulnerable,” Cady said. “Racism in our society and injustices in our political and cultural systems and the fear, ignorance, and misunderstanding that accompany them empower polluters, lead to the destruction of our most cherished places and directly threaten our environmental progress. People’s rights are being violated and their safety and dignity are being threatened on a routine basis.”

Cady hopes his artwork can help send a positive message and believes it shows the “possibilities if justice is obtained.”

“All people deserve a healthy planet with clean air and water, a stable climate, and access to the outdoors,” Cady said. “All people deserve equal protection under the law and the right to live their lives free of discrimination and hatred. There is no justice, social, economic, or racial, for those impacted the most, primarily non-western cultures, which have already suffered from exploitation for centuries.”

Curator Amy Winter is very familiar with Cady’s work and believes in the message it sends.

“As a native of Oregon, where he grew up in the great rainforests and mountains of the Cascades and the Columbia River Gorge, and the powerful shores of the Pacific Ocean, Dennis Cady has stayed true to his love of the majesty and marvel of nature,” said Winter. “In its beauty and singularity his art reflects his commitment to the appreciation and preservation of the earth for all people.”

In a career spanning over 40 years, Cady has traveled and painted in all regions of the United States, including the more local Hudson Valley, Long Island, the Catskills and Adirondacks.

For the past 12 years, he has also created natural wood sculptures, the material for which he forages in forests. Cady has recently had his sculptured woodcuts displayed at Queensborough Community College’s Art Gallery and the Rainforest Art Foundation headquarters, located at the Marlene Yu Museum in Shreveport.

“Dennis Cady had the first solo exhibition here of a sculptor using natural materials,” said Stephanie Yu Lusk, director of the museum. “Although he is a man of few words, his artwork speaks of his strong connection with nature. We were honored to exhibit Mr. Cady’s nature-inspired paintings.”

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By Joseph Crowley

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The neighborhood I grew up in was marked by a sense of community. It was more than a set of city blocks; it was a place where families and friends helped and looked out for one another. Through good times and bad, neighbors did the best they could to put food on the table, save some money and help their kids get a leg up in the world.

Those goals are now at risk. The Republican tax bill has put neighborhoods like Queens and the Bronx – the very communities we should protect – in danger.

Senate and House Republicans are on the verge of passing a tax bill that would devastate the people who live in my neighborhood – teachers, police officers, college students, seniors and many others.

Now, some have accused Democrats of being bombastic and over-the-top in our response to this tax proposal. Republicans have claimed that this tax bill isn’t actually the end of the world for these families.

They couldn’t be more wrong.

This tax bill would severely hurt working- and middle-class families in Queens and the Bronx. It would raise taxes by $1,200 on many of the people who worked hardest to build our country. It would stop teachers from deducting the money they spend on their own to stock their classrooms. And it would force seniors into choosing cut-rate care because they couldn’t afford the quality care they deserve.

This isn’t tax reform. It’s highway robbery. It’s Republicans’ attempt to grab money from working Americans so they can lavish tax breaks on corporate special interests and their donors.

Democrats have pushed back against this bill for months. No Democrats in the House or the Senate voted for this scam tax bill when it came to the floor. In the Ways and Means Committee, Democrats desperately tried to amend the bill so it couldn’t be so disastrous for working men and women.

I specifically offered or supported dozens of amendments, such as one that would have saved New Yorkers $73 billion by preserving the state and local tax deduction, and one that would have put real money in the pockets of renters who pay more than 30 percent of their income in rent.

Republicans rejected them all.

It’s clear that the Republican strategy reeks of desperation. The GOP is so desperate to claim a legislative victory – any victory – that they are trying to pass a tax bill in the dead of night without even knowing what’s in it. But, in effect, all they’re doing is killing the American dream with a plan to raise taxes and put health care out of reach for millions of Americans.

This bill goes after working Americans’ every last dollar and cent. And for what? To claim what Republicans call a “legislative victory”? To make sure their Republican donors keep paying? All at the expense of Americans’ health and well-being?

That is outrageous.

Now is the time to make your voice heard. We can defeat the final bill if Republicans in places like New York, California, or Pennsylvania realize that the middle-class will not allow them to be shortchanged just so the GOP can claim a fleeting political win.

I promise you, Democrats will spend the next weeks fighting against this bill, and fighting for you.

U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley

Chairman, House Democratic Caucus

Jackson Heights

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The Regional Plan Association, a think tank, released a 300-plus page proposal to revolutionize transit infrastructure in New York which fielded the idea of discontinuing 24-hour subway service and expanding subway lines to serve transit deserts where job markets are up.

But Larry Penner, an advocate who worked 31 years for the USDOT Federal Transit Administration, said the proposal does not take into account the logistics of closing a subway station nor does it look at the bureaucracy or funding involved in expanding service.

RPA’s president, Tom Wright, explained that only 1.5 percent of commuters take the subway between midnight and 4 a.m. for a total of 85,000 people and if the MTA is to expedite repairs, it would need to make the most of the hours of lightest ridership.

“The first problem is the trip of a [subway] train can be anywhere from 30 minutes to 90 minutes. Let’s say I’m on the last train from Hudson Yards at 12:30 a.m. I’m not going to arrive in Main Street – Flushing until 1:10 a.m.,” Penner said. “There’s no way you can close all 471 stations at the exact same time at 12:30. It’s like dominoes.”

The RPA said installing new signal systems and replacing the century-old analog system under normal circumstances could take 50 years. With the RPA proposal, the members it could be done in 10 to 15 years.

But Mayor Bill de Blasio rejected the idea, calling 24-hour subway service the “birthright” of New Yorkers and said that although other metro systems, like the one in Washington, D.C., do close, New York is a 24-hour city.

Penner also voiced concerns as to how the MTA would implement closing the subways in the face of another crisis: the homeless.

“There are several thousand homeless people who ride the subways overnight, especially during the winter months,” Penner said. “They’re smart, I don’t blame them… How in the world would the transit authority –if they have the legal authority to do it–remove homeless people when the last train arrives at Main Street-Flushing. How do you physically remove that and multiply it by 471 subway stations?”

The report also proposed building three new subway lines in Queens.

“Large parts of Queens are not on the subway system—although many of these neighborhoods have Long Island Rail Road stations. Ridership is very low at these stops because service is infrequent and expensive,” the report said, listing off neighborhoods which are high density and often low income as well, such as Jackson Heights, Elmhurst or Corona.

A 3.7-mile-stretch of track on Northern Boulevard would run from 36th Street to Willets Point.

Another would run for 5.7 miles on Jewel Avenue and would serve communities like Pomonok and Fresh Meadows, while connection would be available to the LIRR in Hollis and Queens Village.

The Astoria line could be extended to the north, the report said. But Penner said an extension would be better served if it went to the east and offered a connection to LaGuardia Airport, where the Port Authority is currently working with consultants to install an AirTrain at Willets Point.

Penner claimed the Willets Point AirTrain would only put more strain on the over-burdened No. 7 train and the Port Washington Line of the LIRR.

On average, it costs $1 billion to construct every mile of new subway line.

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