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| A Brother-Sister Act
The Gadsdens
Richmond Hill Crystal Scott 8 Age 11 4'5" Height 5'0" 75 lbs Weight 100 lbs Scott and Crystal Gadsden don’t do everything together. At P.S. 62 in Richmond Hill, they attend class in different rooms—Scott in fifth grade, Crystal in third. And after school, Scott focuses on team sports, while Crystal prefers to hit the pool. But when it comes to their modeling careers, these grade schoolers pose like pros — and, luckily for their mother, are often featured together in magazine ads. “I have to pick them up from school, run to the train, do their hair on the train,” says Mrs. Gadsden of the ordeal that is the daily grind for a family of pint-sized models. “Then we have to run back and do homework and get ready for school. But they love it, and that’s why we do it.” Crystal, 8, followed her 11-year-old brother into modeling three years ago. “My favorite part of modeling is that we get to try on new outfits,” she said. “And there are a lot of bright lights, and I’m in a studio with lots of makeup on.” Scott got his start as at the age of three. He bravely put on a professional smile as he sat in a dentist’s chair for advertisement. Both brother and sister agree, on their favorite company to model for. As Scott explained, posing for Toys 'R Us” is the best sort of work; sometimes, if all goes well, the young models get to take home a few things. “At school, a lot of people give me comments,” Crystal said. “Like when I showed up in a magazine as the Bazooka girl, they asked me if they gave me free gum.” Before the glamour of bright lights and free bubble gum draws too many hopefuls into modeling, parents should beware, however. As Mrs. Gadsden warns: “Tell Mommy, it’s a lot of work.” |
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| Rocks In His Head?
Queens Congressman Anthony Weiner announced recently that he has saved the world.
Well, sort of. Weiner’s office sent out a press release stating that Weiner had “saved the world” by introducing the SPACE Act, which would “provide $4 million to NASA to share the operating cost for four large 1.8 meter telescopes currently being developed by the Department of Defense.” Weiner argues that the bill is necessary because a recent asteroid named “2004 FH” passed within 25,600 miles of the earth and would have created a “crater the size of Central Park.” He argues that if we had a telescope to see the asteroid with, we could prepare for it. He said it could help avoid “Armageddon.” “Asteroids are probably the last thing on most people’s minds, but they’ve hit us before and scientists tell us they’ll hit us again,” said Weiner. “So making a modest investment in prevention is the sensible thing to do. And anyone grew up playing 'Asteroids' like I did, knows you have to be able to see them before you can shoot them down,” he added. See, playing video games does come in handy. |
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| DJ Queens
After 12 years of perfecting his skills, Queens native DJ Camilo is still known as one of the hottest DJs around.
Camilo graces the radio airways every Sunday from midnight to 4 a.m. on his show “Takin’ It To the Streets,” on Hot 97. He also has various mixed tapes floating around the music circuit, and won the “Best Blends on a Mix Tape” award in 1998 at the annual Mix Tape Awards. Although this Colombian DJ can be seen working many parties across all five boroughs, Queens had him first. |
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| Shea Stadium Wild Pitch
In politics, timing is everything – unless you are an elected representative of the Flushing.
Councilman John Liu, State Senator Toby Stavisky and Assemblyman Barry Grodenchik are close political allies, and their enduring mutual support often benefits the public they serve. This amiable triumvirate may be the brain trust of Flushing, but last week they made a move that is difficult to fathom. Tens of thousands of people, flocked to Flushing on April 12 to catch the opening pitch of the Mets season at Shea. Just minutes before the game began, the Flushing Three decide to host a press conference just a few thousand feet from Shea. The politicians wanted to protest the ongoing operations of Evergreen Recycling, a plant in Willets Point that process industrial debris 24 hours a day, so they invited the local press to the Roosevelt Avenue bridge overlooking the Van Wyck. That location does, in fact, offer a terrific view of Evergreen. Too bad it sits in the midst of a primary traffic route into the parking lots around Shea. At least one member of the press, who shall remain anonymous, spent almost an hour in traffic trying to reach that location. John, Toby and Barry – thanks a lot! |
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| Mayors Will Be Fuming
Uncle Jack’s Steak House, a cigar aficionado’s outpost in Bayside where you can also order a rare filet mignon, expects to become the first Queens business with an exemption from the year-old smoking ban next month.
Owner Willie Degel, a man with a passion for a good stogie, believes he hopped the last bureaucratic hurdle for the waiver making his one of only a handful of establishments citywide to avoid the anti-tobacco law. When that exemption comes down, it may make no fewer than two mayors of New York City fume. Mike Bloomberg, a former smoker who kicked his habit and then spearheaded laws to make smoking a chore for his fellow citizens, has said that he enjoys a good steak at Uncle Jack’s when he makes it out to Bell Boulevard. With unhealthy cigar smoke in the air, and his smoking ban rocked, Bloomberg may stay away. But his predecessor will have no such trouble. In fact, on a recent tour of Uncle Jack’s, QConf found an onsite personal humidor with Rudy Giuliani’s name on it – literally. It seems the former mayor, who never moved to ban smoking during his term, rents a private cubby for his collection of cigars and enjoys a good puff after dining on red meat. Rudy might be fuming, too – in the negative sense – if he notices that Uncle Jack’s misspelled his last name, though. |
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