🌱 Jamaica Man Sentenced + Stun Gun Deployed At PS 305 + Sven

Get on up, Queens! Let's get you all caught up to start this Friday, November 19 off on an informed note. Here are the most important things happening today in town.

First, today's weather:

Cooler; breezy in the p.m.. High: 48 Low: 34.

Here are the top stories in Queens today:

1. A defendant has been sentence to 25 years-to-life in prison for the shooting death of Anderson Delgado, a Jamaica man. 37-year-old Sharif Brown, of 140th Street in Jamaica, was found guilty of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree in Oct., following a two-week-long trial before Queens Supreme Court Justice Ira Margulis. According to trial records, the defendant and Anderson Delgado became embroiled in an argument on the afternoon of Dec. 27, 2014 and without warning Brown pulled out a gun and shot the 22-year-old victim in the head. (Press Release Desk)
2. A Queens ISIS supporter who declared 'I am a terrorist' was sentenced to 30 years in prison. 28-year-old Ali Saleh pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to ISIS in July 2018. The defendant was also sentenced to 100 months, or more than eight years’, imprisonment for assaulting a federal correctional officer and possessing contraband at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, to run consecutive to the terrorism sentence. (HSToday)
3. Police are looking for two teens after they deployed a stun gun at PS 305 in Ridgewood on Thursday afternoon. Multiple students were checked by EMS and taken to the Wycoff Hospital for evaluation, after the stun gun went off and hit a metal fence that other students were leaning against. Approximately eight kids whose ages range from eight to 10 years old said they felt a vibration against the fence, but they were not shocked. (CBS New York)
4. On Thursday, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., along with New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), former City Council Member Costa Constantinides, and community leaders broke ground on the Hallets Cove Restoration Project. Restoration will begin this fall with NYCEDC overseeing the demolition and removal of the dilapidated radio tower pier and other debris, the restoration of the esplanade railing, and the installation of a new railing along Vernon Boulevard. The total cost of the project is $5 million, of which $3 million had been allocated by the Borough President's Office across fiscal years 2016 and 2017. (Press Release Desk)
5. A new tower in Queens is giving its residents access to an exclusive app that controls spire colors across the city. Sven, a 958-unit Durst Organization property in Long Island City will be the first building in New York where residents can illuminate the tops of city towers, such as the 300-foot spire at One Bryant Park in Midtown, with the tap of a finger. Every tenant will receive membership to Spireworks, a mobile app launched within Durst in 2017, that lets its users control the colors and effects that glow at the summits of select Durst buildings — including at the 71-story Sven itself. (New York Post)

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Queens Patch Notebook

• Queens Borough President Donovan Richards: "Congratulations Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School 74 on earning the National Blue Ribbon School award! Despite going through a pandemic, it was determination, hard work and a positive attitude that has earned everyone this award. Continue to shine MS 74, and keep making us proud!" (Facebook)
• Queens Museum: "For the past year, photographer Joana Toro has documented the impact of COVID-19 on Queens’ TransLatinx community. In honor of #TransAwarenessWeek, we are highlighting some photographs from her series “TransLatinx Resilience against COVID-19”, which documents how the pandemic has affected transgender and gender nonconforming Latinx immigrants living and working in the borough." (Facebook)
• Queens, New York: "NEA Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri performs at LeFrak Concert Hall on Nov. 20 at 7 pm. Info: https://bit.ly/3njeNHT" (Facebook)
• Queens Chamber of Commerce: "Elite Builders and Management, our member, is committed to affordable housing and hasn't slowed down their commitment, despite the pandemic wreaking havoc on the building industry. Putting their money where their mouth is, this is the third mixed-use, affordable income development project that they've worked on this year." (Facebook)

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About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a freelance copywriter for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and as an assistant producer for a live-lit storytelling show in Chicago. She holds a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Rhode Island. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.