By Kathianne Boniello
After its first extended summer break in decades, northeast Queens’ Community Board 11 was set to resume public meetings next week in Bayside.
The board voted for the summer respite at its June meeting. While the full, 48-member board did not meet in July or August, committee work has continued, Chairman Jerry Iannece of Bayside Hills said.
“We did a lot of work,” Iannece said of CB 11’s activities in July and August. “The community board was nonstop.”
CB 11 covers the communities of Bayside, Little Neck, Douglaston, Oakland Gardens, Hollis Hills and Auburndale.
Community Board 11 is based in Little Neck but holds its monthly meetings at MS 158 in Bayside. The group traditionally takes August off, but when members were surveyed in June, they chose to follow the example of other community boards in Queens by canceling their July meeting as well.
“We were the only community board meeting in July,” said Iannece, who was elected chairman of CB 11 in March. Iannece, who took over the reins of CB 11 from longtime Chairman Bernard Haber, said he understood why the board usually met in July. “We are a very busy community board — nothing stops.”
The first full CB 11 meeting of the fall was slated to be held 8 p.m. Tuesday night at MS 158 at 46-35 Oceania St., and the group has a full agenda.
The Sept. 3 agenda includes a public hearing on a proposal to name the tiny park at the intersection of Glenwood Street and 39th Road in Little Neck in honor of Lt. Michael Szap. Szap, a Little Neck native, died a hero in World War I and was buried in Luxembourg but is remembered on a number of memorial plaques around the community.
In addition to the park renaming, CB 11 was expected to deal with an application from a Bayside restaurant to renew its permit for an enclosed sidewalk cafe.
The application by Farrell’s restaurant at 45-53 Bell Blvd. involves the eatery’s eight-table, 22-seat sidewalk café.
The board will also be asked to consider a new application from another Bell Boulevard eatery, Cascarino’s Restaurant at 39-17 Bell Blvd. Cascarino’s has asked for a zoning variance to build a second- story extension.
Reach reporter Kathianne Boniello by e-mail at Timesledgr@aol.com or call 229-0300, Ext. 146.
