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SE859 - 70th Street Sewer Upgrades advisories - Weekly Bulletin 3/2-3/6

2/29/2020

104th Precinct NCO Sector D Build the Block

2/29/2020

Sector D covers Middle Village and also covers a portion of Maspeth. For instance, the south side of Grand Avenue between the LIE and Fresh Pond Road, Reiff Park area and Frontera Park area.

Please see attached.

Thank you.

P.O. Eugene Lee
Neighborhood Coordination Officer

COMET Meeting Monday

2/29/2020

Hi All,

Our COMET meeting will be held this Monday, March 3rd, 7:00 pm, at St. Adalbert Parish Center, lower level,52-40 84th Street.

Agenda:

We have a new Commanding Officer at the 110th Precinct and we may get the opportunity to meet him.
Our precincts will give us our crime stats and update us on any unusual incidents that occurred during the past 28 days. There's been a lot of rims and tires stolen throughout our area and we look forward to hearing what we can do to deter criminals targeting our vehicles.
DSNY will be giving us a 15 minute presentation regarding composting and will answer questions.
Updates from our elected officials or their reps.

Hope to see you this Monday.

Roe Daraio, President
COMET Civic Association
www.cometcivic.com

Info Regarding Plastic Bag Ban

2/25/2020

A lot of folks are not familiar with the plastic bag ban and think this only pertains to supermarkets. Please review the following so you're not caught off guard.

This Sunday, March 1, 2020, New York State’s law banning single-use plastic carryout bags takes effect. In New York City, businesses will also be required to collect a 5-cent fee on paper carryout bags from customers.

Businesses Covered by the Law include, but are not limited to:

Clothing stores
Convenience stores
Drug stores
Green carts
Grocery store
Hardware stores
Liquor stores
Office supply stores
Pharmacies
Food service establishments located within the above stores.

Bag Exceptions

Bags are exempt from both the plastic bag ban and the paper carryout bag fee if they are:

Used only to contain or wrap uncooked meat, fish or poultry
Used by a consumer only to package bulk items such as fruits, vegetables, grains or candy
Used only to contain food sliced or prepared to order
Used only to contain a newspaper for delivery to a subscriber
Trash bags
Food storage bags
Garment bags
Prepackaged for sale to a customer
Provided by a restaurant, tavern or similar food service establishment to carry out or deliver food
Provided by a pharmacy to carry prescription drugs

104th Precinct Sector C Build the Block

2/24/2020

See attached regarding the upcoming 104th Precinct's NCO Build the Block meeting.

Sector C covers most of Maspeth, a portion of Ridgewood and Woodside and a few blocks of Elmhurst.

Maspeth - Crime Review

2/24/2020

Hi All,

I've been told social media is exploding with news regarding the recent crime in Maspeth, so I reached out to the 104th Precinct to get a recap year-to-date of robberies and burglaries. I am listing these crimes along with one Grand Larceny that you'll be interested in.

We will be holding our COMET meeting next Monday, 3/2 and Captain Perry will go over the crimes that occurred during the past 28 days only. It will take too much time to review everything.

Robberies - (a crime is considered a robbery when the victim is assaulted in some way)

1/3, an 11-year old was robbed of $10. An arrest was made.
1/14, 11:30 pm, Rene Court, a male was robbed by three men.
1/19, a homeless male was robbed by a friend in the vicinity of Maurice Avenue. An arrest was made.
1/31, a shop lifting robbery of a wig store on 51st Street/Grand Avenue. This incident is considered a robbery because an employee was assaulted in some way.
2/7, 9:30 pm, 71st Street between Grand/54th Avenue, a 15-year old female was assaulted and robbed of her cell phone and ear pods. Four or five individuals were involved.
2/7, approximately 9:30 pm, Grand/71st Street, a male delivery man from deli was robbed by four individuals. No property was taken.
2/7, approximately 9:30 pm, 70th Street/53rd Avenue, four males attempted to steal a backpack from an adult male. No property taken.
2/13, approximately 8:00 pm, 46th Street/Metropolitan Avenue, store owner observed someone attempting to break into his store after closing and confronted the perpetrator. An arrest was made.
2/22, 2:45 am, 60th/Metropolitan Avenue, male robbed by one perpetrator.
2/22, 7:40 pm, 66th Street/Jay Avenue, two males pushed delivery guy to the ground and stole his car.

Grand Larceny

A female had her purse snatched on Grand/Remsen Place by a male on a bicycle. (I didn't make note of the date of occurrence)

Burglaries, a total of 9 - (in a nutshell)

3 businesses were burglarized on 69th Street. We reported this to you previously.
Several commercial vehicles were broken into. This is considered a burglary because they were commercial vehicles.
1/3, 54 #s/69th Lane, vacant residential house broken into, nothing stolen.
1/27, 6:30 am, 58 #s/Fresh Pond Road, homeowner heard a noise and perpetrator fled. Nothing stolen.
2/6, 8:30 am, 59th/60th Street, homeowner heard a noise, went to investigate, perpetrator fled. Nothing stolen.

Roe Daraio, President
COMET Civic Association
www.cometcivic.com