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Kindergarten Mama
Annamarie Tromp
Home: Flushing
Age: 37
Ht: 5’5
Wt: 115
Stats: 36B-24-36
NY Photo by Nick

Flushing’s Annamarie Tromp said her kindergarten students “have no clue” that she is a knockout model after school who will appear in a few barely-there outfits in several calendars due out later this year.

“Some of the teachers know, but I keep it very quiet,” admitted Annamarie. “Why? Because, I don’t know, I don’t like to brag about it, or gossip about it. I’m a pretty private person,” she said.

That private side gets pretty exposed when she gets in front of a camera, which she did for the first time only three years ago. “I waited [to model until] later in life because I have a family, I have two children, I’m divorced . . . so a lot of things were happening in my life and I couldn’t pursue it when I was younger . . . so I decided to give it a shot as a mature woman.”

As a “mature woman,” Tromp has modeled everything from custom-made motorcycles to swim suits, lingerie and even appeared in a Lucille Roberts television commercial. This knockout even appeared as a ring girl for out-of-state boxing matches.

For the teacher-by-day, model-by-night, shopping is not a problem.

“Victoria's Secret in Bayside, in Bay Terrace,” said Tromp. “I love that store. I think they have beautiful lingerie,” which she doesn’t mind wearing in front of the camera. But in front of students, the place to shop is across the way. “Since I’m a school teacher, and I can’t dress too crazy, I like shopping at The Gap. They have nice conservative clothes.”

Before she started turning heads, Tromp was making the grade, getting her bachelors degree in Sociology with honors from Queens College. Then she scored a perfect 4.0 when she got her master’s in elementary education from St. John’s University.

 
 
St. John's Student On ‘Jeopardy’

Victoria Manos
St. John’s University student Victoria Manos was selected from a field of thousands of students nationwide who applied to be one of 15 contestants in the two-week “Jeopardy College Championship” Nov. 10-23 on WABC Channel 7 at 7 p.m.

“This was a great experience,” Manos said. “It is an honor to be able to represent St. John’s University as a contestant on ‘Jeopardy.’”

The student, who is enrolled in the University’s College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, added “Since I can’t share the outcome of the College Championship until after it airs, I hope my friends and professors at school will tune in to cheer me on.”

Good luck, and might we suggest drinks at Sly Fox if you win?
From The Trib To Newsday

John Mancini, Newday's new editor-in-chief, got his start at the Queens Tribune
Newsday didn’t have to look too far to name its new top editor.

The Long Island-based daily has pegged Queens native John Mancini as its new Editor-in-chief to replace former executive vice president and editor Howard Schneider, who resigned only 15 months after taking the position.

Mancini takes over the paper amid severe staff cuts and a circulation scandal.

The 44-year-old Mancini still resides in Queens and has been overseeing the paper’s New York City edition — based primarily in Kew Gardens — for the last three years. He started with Newsday in 1980 and also had stints with The New York Times, The New York Post and the now-defunct Long Island Voice. He returned to Newsday for good in 2001.
But where did he get his journalism start?

The Queens Tribune, right here!
Trump & Sharpton Almost Alike

For those who need help telling the difference between two of reality TV’s newest stars, here’s a clue from one of them:

“Trump fires people. I hire them.”

That’s how the Reverend Al Sharpton explains the difference between his new show, “I Hate My Job,” from the one hosted by Jamaica Estates native Donald Trump, “The Apprentice.”

Trump whittles away aspiring employees with his now infamous phrase, “You’re fired.” Sharpton, who has yet to coin a phrase, will help people transition from their day job, to their dream job.

Another difference is Trump almost never shakes hands, fearing germs from those he meets and does business with. Sharpton on the other hand has kissed babies, shaken hands, and pressed the flesh across Queens and the entire country while he was campaigning as a Democratic candidate for the White House.

The two though do have one similarity: they both are using television to help average people achieve their dreams.

“I’m the working man’s Donald Trump,” Sharpton said during on a local radio station
Poetic License: Whodatt?

photo: Ira Cohen
We caught them on Main St. and Jewel Aveenue in Kew Gardens Hills
Rapsheet For Rap Label

Federal prosecutors are still after The Inc., formerly Murder Inc., the rap label allegedly funded by the convicted Queens crack dealer Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff and home to Jamaica native Ja Rule.

Not letting up the push, on Nov. 8 prosecutors indicted the label’s bookkeeper Cynthia Brent on charges of laundering over $1 million in drug money.

NYPD and the feds raided Murder Inc’s New York offices in January 2003 following a yearlong investigation.

A subsequent report by an IRS special agent claimed that Hollis native Irv Gotti – no relative to any other Queens Gotti you may be thinking of — was the “public face” of the label while McGriff’s Supreme Team, a powerful Queens-based drug gang dating back to the 1980s, was the “true owner.”


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