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| Model of Queens - Musical Model
Catherine Acosta
Home; Kew Gardens Age: 23 Height: 5’ 2" Weight: 130 Stats: Curvy Catherine, a musician by trade, just dipped her toe in the model industry a mere three months ago. “I’m not a professional model,” she said. “I am a musician. I sing and write my own music.” For Catherine, modeling is just another venue to get her face noticed, which she has been able to do with the help of Nick Benduce, aka NY Photo by Nick. Catherine said she got the idea of modeling through a friend. “Whenever there is a good opportunity I definitely want to be there for it,” Catherine said. When Catherine is not in front of the camera, she spends her time working on her music and shoe collection. She has a collection of shoes from a few boutiques including OZ Boutique in Forest Hills and Diva in Astoria. Although Catherine is a Queens native, her downtime is spent mostly in Manhattan. But when hanging out in Queens Catherine said she frequents Cavo, a lounge in Astoria. “I love to dance,” Catherine told QConf and Queens is always going to be home. “I love Queens because it is still the city, but it still has diversity and culture. It’s just my home.” |
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| They Feel Our Pain And Vice Versa
Leave it to the New York Mets to be gracious losers.
They let down the fans who ran with them all season only to be sucker-punched at the end by a total collapse. Many might argue that this impressive bunch of players was playing at half-speed through most of the season. Even their announcers ripped into them in mid-season for treating the rough-and-tumble game as if it was a tea party, not trying hard and being polite to the catcher by sliding around him and reaching in with a hand to touch the base rather than plowing straight through. These lollygaggers sent out a note to their fans the day after they threw away their hopes at the post-season, saying “All of us… are bitterly disappointed. We did not meet our organization’s expectations – or yours. Everyone at Shea feels the same range of emotions as you – our loyal fans – and we know we have let you down.” They closed their note with “You deserve better results.” Yeah, no kidding. |
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| Edgardo Alfonzo House 4 Sale
So let’s chalk one up for the other team. It seems that anything the Mets touch is sullied. Bats, pitchers, houses, you name it. If the Mets touch it, no one is buying.
Former Met Edgardo Alfonzo cannot unload his $6.1 million mansion in Little Neck. Alfonzo hasn’t been a Met for five years, but nobody is willing to take the 14,000-square-foot, five-bedroom, 5.5 bath mansion of his hands. The House has been on the market for a year and the asking price has dropped by $1.9 million. |
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| Farewell To Al
Al Oerter, an Olympic Champion discus thrower from Astoria died this month at his home in Ft. Myers, Fla., at the age of 71.
Oetrer may have been born in Astoria, but he moved to New Hyde Park and attended Sewanhaka High in Floral Park where her first picked up the discus at the age of 15, in 1951. Just five years later he captured the gold at the Melbourne Olympics and followed with consecutive gold medals in Rome in 1960, Tokyo in 1964 and Mexico City in 1968. He and fellow former Olympian Bob Beamon, the Jamaica, Queens native who won the Olympic gold for the long jump in 1968, formed “Art Of The Olympians” along with a dozen other Olympic veterans, showcasing the more aesthetic work of the athletes. The exhibit is permanently based near Oerter’s Florida home. |
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| iPhone Anger
Apple thought it was doing its customers a favor when it dropped the price of its iPhone from $599 to $200 shortly after the phone hit the market – one Queens woman said, “No thank you.”
Dongmei Li filed suit against Apple and its cell network provider, fellow evildoer AT&T, in the New York Federal Court for price discrimination, underselling, unfair and deceptive practices and other violations of federal laws. According to her lawsuit, “Apple’s discrimination in price between early and later purchasers substantially caused the early purchasers to be injured because early purchasers cannot resell their iPhones for the same profit as later purchasers.” Hmm…looks like Li might be running a side business of here own reselling iPhones. She’s looking to make up her loss in profit, err, receive her refund by suing for $1 million in compensatory damages plus punitive damages. On a related note, office pools around the borough give this case the same chance it gave that female Exec who sued the Knicks and Isaiah Thomas. |
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| The Gardens
Queens has been called many things, most commonly we are labeled as a bedroom community for the people who work in Manhattan but live here.
But Cottage Living magazine names Forest Hills Gardens the No. 1 Cottage Community of 2007 in its current edition: “Places with inspiring architecture, porches, and gardens; walkable streets with parks and playgrounds; locally owned shops and restaurants; and an enveloping neighborliness.” Cottages? These guys must have not checked the tax records for Forest Hills Gardens, which boasts multi-million-dollar homes. The magazine describe what $300,000 can buy in the winners. FH Gardens, a one-bed room apartment – maybe. Elsewhere, a 2,000 square-foot house. | |||||||||
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