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Glamorous Tiah
This dark-eyed beauty started modeling about six years ago, but had signed on with the wrong agency, and ended up losing money and not finding any work.

After a couple of years off, Shatiah jumped back in, listing her profile and public modeling sites like onemodelplace.com and modelmayhem.com.

“I haven’t done any real work yet, but I’ve been building my portfolio,” she said.

Though she envisions herself one day going back to school so she can become a wedding planner, right now she is content to work in her retail job – and hang out at batting cages, knocking shots over the fence.

“Nobody can believe me, that I’m actually good, because I’m so girly,” she said with a laugh.

During her down time she likes to cruise Queens Center Mall as well as Green Acres Mall, spend time with her boyfriend and read “Twilight.”

“I’m actually reading ‘New Moon,” right now; and I am so obsessed with it,” she said of the popular teen vampire sequel. “I went to the movie thinking I wouldn’t like it, and I was so wrong. Now I’m hooked.”

But “Tiah,” as she is known, won’t let baseball bats or vampire bats get in the way of her true love – modeling.

“I’m just so serious about this modeling thing,” she said. “Print work, commercial – it doesn’t matter. I really want to succeed.”

Shatiah Brown
Home: Jamaica
Age: 22
Height: 5’ 3”
Weight: 100 lbs
Stats: 34-22-35
 
 
First Day Blues In Queens

NYCHA Chairman, John Rhea, greeted seniors at the 2009 Summer Party, at Pomonok Houses in "Astoria" on his first day on the job. He is shown with 88-year-old Mollie Winter (left), who has lived at the development since it opened in 1951, and New York City Department for the Aging Commissioner Lilliam Paoli-Barrios.
When Mayor Mike Bloomberg appointed his new chairman to the New York City Housing Authority, John B. Rhea, he must have assumed that the man had a pretty good working knowledge of the NYCHA properties spread throughout the City.

There are many in Queens, including Queensbridge, the largest public housing project in the country.

And then there’s Pomonok, located in the heart of Queens, bordered by Parsons and Kissena Boulevards and Jewel Ave on the south end of Flushing and north of Jamaica. But in Astoria? Really?

On his first day at the job, Rhea did a quick tour of the City’s housing projects, and even sent out a press release with this great picture showing him at the Pomonok Houses – “in Astoria.”

We’re sure that he must have meant Kew Gardens Hills, or someplace nearby, and we hope his slip (or that of his press officer) does not reflect on our housing or Queens.

Hey, at least he didn’t call us the Bronx.
A Heavy Lift At The MTA

You ever hear the saying what goes around comes around? Well, the MTA experienced a bit of karma last year.

Every few years, the MTA has its grubby paws around your purse strings taking a few more cents here and there. Meanwhile, some of its employees are stealing equipment costing thousands.

At the Maspeth MTA warehouse three employees stole eight forklifts and sold them to a nearby chop shop for $7,800.

How do you steal not one, not two, not even three, but eight fork lifts and no one noticed until months after the heavy machinery has gone missing? Either the thieves were versed in the art of illusion or someone else should join the unemployment line.
Malicious Use Of Melons

A buxom bandit and her accomplice robbed a sporting goods store in Howard Beach last week. Trans World News reported that a shapely young blonde was told by SportsDepot staff that there are no fitting rooms in the store. She milked the situation by disrobing in full view of all.

Her accomplice nipped hundreds of dollars in sportswear and goods as the staff watched her remove her top, exposing a bra-less bod. The two reportedly took shirts, shorts, pants, and jackets.

It appears the pair was successful, no word yet that they’ve been busted.
Back To The Mob

Christopher Walken from “True Romance.”
It’s about time Christopher Walken stopped doing goofy comedies that play on his natural zaniness and dig his teeth into a bad-ass character.

The most impersonated man in Hollywood began filming his latest film, “The Irishman,” in Detroit.

The Astoria native plays Shondor Birns, Cleveland’s number one organized crime boss during the 1960s. The Jewish gangster hires young gun and lead character Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson), who becomes ambitious and needs to get Birns out of his way.

The role fits Walken’s mold of the charismatic tough guy, which he defined as Vincent Coccotti in 1993’s “True Romance,” and leaves behind the static, lame characters he’s been playing lately.

Besides, we all know, Christopher Walken guns and cursing = movie magic.
No Ahmadinejad

David Paterson
Ask an Iranian where to find corrupt politicians, subverted democracy and political paralysis and you’ll probably hear about the streets of Tehran – unless he had read the Tehran Times last Wednesday. In the midst of Iran’s historic demonstrations, the nation’s first English daily decided to pick up the story of our own state’s Senate circus.

Granted, they just reprinted an article off the Bloomberg newswire, but they do quote Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, as saying: “this is an unelected, unpopular governor who has hit rock-bottom…As the most visible member of a dysfunctional government, he’s the most vulnerable.”

Unpopular as he might be, we’d bet Paterson probably doesn’t seem so bad to our overseas observers.
School’s Out!

Senior students at Richmond Hill High School wanted to leave a lasting mark on their school: they chose baby powder, barbecue sauce and shaving cream to do so.

The students made an exemplary use of the learning skills they acquired in their four, or more, years of high school when they organized their senior prank on the Internet in one night.

The class coated an entire hallway with condiments and toiletries decorating the 1929 building.

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