by LIZ GOFF

We sent George Pataki back to Albany for four more years, weathered tropical changes, thanks to El Niño, and celebrated the best and the worst of times in Queens . . . a new library opened our collective minds to new challenges and “old” classics . . . we vowed to fight the closing of one of our firehouses and we joined a line of blue in a sad farewell to a Queens hero . . . Police Officer Anthony Mosomillo was cut-down by a parolee’s anger in a Flatbush apartment on May 26 . . .