NaDine
Home: St. Albans
Age: 27
Height: 5’5"
Weight: 108lbs.
Stats: 32-25-32

St. Albans’ NaDine is rapidly climbing the modeling career ladder.

This 27-year-old beauty has recently signed on with FACES modeling agency and has participated in photo shoots for some noted magazines.

Of her nearly-a-decade-long career in modeling, NaDine said, “I love it. It’s what I always wanted to do.”

NaDine has a great voice to match her good looks and at one time considered a career as a singer. She traveled across the pond to test her pipes singing R&B styled ballads in England and spent 10 years there.

“It’s a nice place to live,” NaDine explained. “The people there are amazingly nice.”

After her European adventure, NaDine decided to settle down in Queens with her husband– sorry guys she’s taken.

“I can’t imagine living anywhere else,” she said of the St. Albans home she moved into two years ago.

NaDine aspires to one day become a widely recognized model but explained, “I don’t have to be a supermodel or anything – just recognized.”

To aspiring models she offers this: “Do your research. If someone’s legit, they won’t charge you anything.”

When she’s not busy with her career, NaDine likes to spend time shopping along Jamaica Ave. and enjoying a sampling of the Jamaican cuisine offered at area dining spots.

Bringing Stars To A Star Borough

MoMA President Agnes Gund remarked, “Queens has been my favorite borough,” saying that she had married a man from the borough that tried to convince her that Queens was the “the hub of universe.”  Now I understand, she quipped, especially after visiting a couple of Queens restaurants. 

At the MoMA opening, she talked about the presence of the historic Silver Cup Studios where the Sopranos is filmed, as well as the American Museum of the Moving Image, Queens Museum of Art, and the anticipated arrival of the Museum of African Art. 

At just how posh Long Island City is becoming, the MoMA President mentioned that she recently dined in Long Island City with Director John Waters (Hairspray, Pecker) and Italian beauty Isabella Rossellini, daughter of the late, great star Ingrid Bergman. And Gund joked that she hopes to bring Paul Newman to the area if and when he returns her calls.

“There has always been a community of artists coming to Long Island City,” she said.

Tribute?

While awards were presented and recognition given to honorees at the 25th Anniversary Kick Off of the American Woman’s Economic Development Corporation (AWED), a special, unintentional  tribute was bestowed upon the Queens Tribune.           

A Trib reporter at the $250 per person gala awards reception & dance at Manhattan’s legendary art deco Supper Club found her name on a tag  with the name of the paper indicated as the  “Queens Tribute.”

Cool, thanx to members of AWED.

Seinfeld In Israel?

Queens College graduate and comedian Jerry Seinfeld is considering going to Israel to host a benefit concert, according to the New York Post. 

Fellow comedian Larry Miller revealed on HBO’s “Dennis Miller Show” that he and Seinfeld discussed the possibility.

Sources say that he mentioned that he is “very interested” in the prospect of going there, possibly not right now but in the future, due to the daily reports of suicide bombings and conflict.  A friend of Seinfeld said to the Post, “It could happen very quickly.  But there are a lot of steps.  They have to find a right venue.” 

“Anyone in their right mind would be concerned about security,” the friend continued.
While Seinfeld “wants to support peace in the Middle East,” it is said that Miller is much more opinionated about the conflict. “He’s [Jerry] not going to be as political as Larry.  That’s not Jerry,” the friend indicated.

Seinfeld studied communications and theater at Queens College and briefly lived in Forest Hills.

Online Intolerance From Queens

In a borough as diverse as Queens, there are people who appreciate the cultural mix, trying to learn about other races and helping them assimilate into American life.

Then there are the other people,  including those behind the website www.americaisfull.com.

The website links to  the website of Project USA – a non-profit group that raises “awareness” of immigrant problems and hopes to close America’s borders.

It provides a wide range of statistics attributing all of the country’s financial, social and cultural problems to immigrants.

Both founders  are from Queens, including “Danny,” who lives in Ozone Park. Danny recently told QConf that the website tells the truth, and that “It’s growing. We have shirts, stickers, the whole thing.”

The site sells tee shirts, including one that reads, “The borders – it’s closing time,” and another that reads, “Tired of sitting in traffic? 4,000 more immigrants come here every day.”

A billboard with the second slogan was once found on the Long Island Expressway, and a billboard with the slogan “Immigration will double the U.S. population in your child’s lifetime” is currently found at 116th Street and the King’s Highway Subway Station in Brooklyn. Danny took credit for the second billboard, and said it refers passers-by to www.americaisfull.com, something Danny is quite proud of.

Danny expressed concerns over the character of his neighborhood, and said, “It used to be totally different. The website lets people know why.” He added, “This is a touchy subject, but people need to hear it.”

He claims he's right but uses the pseudonym "Danny." We always thought honest people would put their name on their truths.

A Little Behind

Petitions are being circulated and  election posters are starting to pop up again...many of them illegally plastered on outdoor telephone and light polls.

A year old, but still hangin'.

It's the annual ritual announcing another round of political battles. Didn’t this just happen? Didn’t this just end? Didn’t the 2001 elections just take place?

Well, in some places, you wouldn’t even know that the 2001 primary elections – or the World Trade Center collapse – ever took place based on the political posters still hanging up from last year’s City Council elections. On 111th Street and Francis Lewis Boulevard in Springfield Gardens, a huge banner in support of Democratic City Council candidate Stephen Jackson still hangs from the second floor of a building, encouraging people to vote for Jackson in the Democratic Primary on – check the date – Sept. 11, 2001. 

In Floral Park and Little Neck, smaller posters asking District 23 voters to choose Democrat JD Thakral in the Sept. 11 primary can still be seen hanging on poles and fencing – illegally.

We know that the world stopped on Sept. 11, but the 2002 elections are about to start. Isn't it about time to take those old posters down. This years crop needs more space.

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