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| Blue Collar Babe
Christian Peck
Home: Bayside Age: 23 Inseam: 36 Waist: 34 Neck: 16 1/2 Shirt: 42 Long Height: 6’2 1/2" Weight: 180 lbs. Maybe you’ve seen Bayside resident Christian Peck putting up glass at a construction site near you. Or maybe you’ve seen him striking a pose in an ad or in a movie scene. This gorgeous lifetime Queens resident has been modeling for two years and got into the business through his father. According to Peck, it was his father who set him up with the modeling agency and helped pique his interest in the modeling and acting worlds. “My dad used to be a model and actor and still dabbles in it today,” said Peck. “I hand him all the credit,” he added. Peck mainly does print work since he was told that he is too tall for the runway. But he has appeared in commercials for AT&T, as an extra on “Ed,” “Law & Order,” “Anger Management” and most recently “13 Going on 30.” He said, “I definitely like print work because if you work with a good photographer, he’ll fix you up to look your best and it’s cool to stand in front of the camera.” When he’s not modeling or acting, Peck works construction as a first year apprentice. We actually spoke to him after one of his shifts putting up glass in a storefront in Manhattan. While he says the work is “back breaking,” he says it’s definitely needed to help pay the bills since it’s steady work. When he’s not working Peck enjoys playing and watching basketball, working out and just hanging out with friends and “positive people who have good goals.” |
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| Gang Green In Jamaica?
If by some bizarre and miraculous turn of events the controversial Jets stadium proposed for Manhattan’s West Side winds up, instead, in the football-friendly confines of Jamaica, the chance meeting of two men at the Queens Tribune offices on June 10 may become the stuff of legend.
David Oats, the foremost advocate for bringing the stadium to Queens, had just ended a lengthy interview about the prospect of defeating the West Side Stadium and luring the complex, which would double as the NYC2012 Olympic centerpiece, to the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park area. As Oats stood to leave, embattled Councilman Allan Jennings arrived to discuss the misconduct charges against him in the Council’s Ethics Committee. The exchange that followed may well go down in history. Allan Jennings: Are you for or against the stadium in Manhattan? David Oats: Against. Jennings: Well could you move it to my district? There is a milk factory right on Sutphin near where it hits Liberty Avenue. Nobody in my district drinks milk anyway. That’s a really good place for it. And if it’s not that stadium, we’ll take anything. Oats: … Jennings: Let’s talk transportation. You could take an airplane from anywhere in the world, get off, ride the AirTrain, and get off right there at the stadium. Plus, the cost of the land is so cheap. Even if that brief conversation does not make it into future histories of New York City, the dialogue at least shows Jennings to be a tireless advocate for his district. And who knows? One day it may answer a bit of sports trivia: How did the football team that formerly played in the Meadowlands become the Jamaica Jets? |
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| Lets Rap About Sex
Queens native Dr. Marc Johnson, a doctor on the board of the AIDS Center of Queens County, said he’s organizing a major sex education event next year geared to the borough’s young people.
To reach them, he’s reaching out to celebrities like singer Beyonce Knowles, NBA legend Irvin “Magic” Johnson, and notable locals like Hollis-native Russell Simmons. But Johnson’s most effective tool may be Hollis-based rapper LL Cool J, who he is hoping will also participate. With songs like “Big Ol Butt”, “Hey Lover,” “Backseat,” “and “Doin’ It and Doin’ It and Doin’ It Well,” LL probably knows quite a bit about the subject. |
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| Park and Go?
When you gotta go, you gotta go, just don’t do it in the parking lot.
At least that’s the motto of the operators of a multi-level parking garage in between Queens Borough Hall and the Criminal Court Building on Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens. This sign clearly points out the policy of the operators. The presence of this sign didn’t seem to do much for the presence of an offending odor in the vicinity, during a recent visit. Besides, isn’t this is a sign you would expect to see in Flushing? |
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| Word Wars
Hitting theaters last week was “Word Wars,” a documentary about the National Scrabble Championships.
What is made clear is that this unassuming game invented by Queens native Alfred Butts has taken on a new level of importance. The National Championships in 2002 drew 700 people and has been growing ever since. For the first time last year, ESPN covered the tournament and a $50,000 prize was awarded. The game has been getting so popular that P.S. 132, the Ralph Bunche School in Springfield Gardens, invited one tournament champion to speak to a class. Little did they know that this “role model” is depicted in the documentary as a short-tempered pothead who frequents whorehouses during Scrabble tournaments. Oh well. At least he has nearly memorized the dictionary. |
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| Poetic License
Meet miserable, last seen at 72nd Ave. and 150th St. in Kew Gardens Hills.
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