Worth Every Dyme
 |
Home: Arverne
Age: 24
Height 5'7"
Weight: 180
Stats: 38-28-25
She is a mother to three boys — Jaylen, 6; Michael, 5 and Jaifir, 1 — and attends LaGuardia Community College. She said that she is interested in modeling as a career, but admitted that it will require additional resources and more connections.
“It’s something I definitely enjoy doing, and I really like taking pictures,” she said. “Sometimes you don’t feel like doing it, but it can be pretty enjoyable most of the time.”
Crystal said the worst experience she has had was during a photo shoot outside in sub-freezing temperatures while wearing next-to-nothing.
“It makes it harder to take a good picture and be focused on your pose and what you’re doing,” she said.
When she is not in school, being photographed or raising her children, Crystal enjoys going out to clubs with her girlfriends, playing pool and going to concerts. She is a music lover and is especially into Drake and Rick Ross.
She is originally from the Bronx but said there are more opportunities in Queens for her and her children in education and business.
“There are a lot of things I can do here with my kids that I maybe couldn’t do in the Bronx,” she said.
Crystal, welcome to Queens!
Staying Mr Met
 |
Fred Wilpon is hanging on as the owner of the Mets. |
Reports came out this week that the Mets are close to selling between four and seven minority shares of the team, valued at $20 million a piece. Though an anonymous Met told New York Magazine that maligned owner Fred Wilpon needs to sell the team, he has not indicated he will sell his majority stake. For now, Mets fans will have to accept this relatively small revenue may help the team fight their way out of the National League basement.
The stakes only represent a tiny share of the team. With the Mets in financial freefall, it’s not clear how great an investment it will ultimately be.
For Met fans, 2012 promises to be an adventure, and we hope not in the worst way possible.
Jay-Z Gets 50 Cents Worth
 |
While most celebrities rushed to Twitter to congratulate Beyonce and Jay-Z on the birth of Blue Ivy, some took it as a chance to make jokes. Hollis native 50 Cent showed off his Photoshop skills last week by tweeting photos of a baby with Jay-Z’s face superimposed on it. Keeping things classy, Fiddy ended the tweet with the hashtag #BlueIvyCarter IS GEORGOUS. If making fun of babies isn’t a sign that your career is over, we don’t know what is. |
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems
 |
Prize patrol but who's the lucky lady? |
Earlier this month, Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City sent out a press release announcing that a woman from Astoria - the Donald's home borough - was selected for a visit from the casino’s prize patrol.
Upon arrival at her house, the prize patrol asked her to choose from three briefcases. Each case had one check for either $10,000, $15,000 or $25,000. Everyone involved was excited when the woman chose the case holding the check for $15,000.
The excitement died down, however, when representatives from Trump Taj Mahal asked the woman to sign a release, allowing them to give her name out to the members of the press in attendance. She didn’t want her name published, she said. If she had known this was going to be for public consumption, she would have never agreed to it.
We’re not sure what she must have been thinking when the limos and the cameramen showed up in front of her house. Maybe she was just waiting for Ed McMahon to jump out of one of them.
A Giant Bet
 |
| Mayor Bloomberg looks forward to some sourdough. |
The NFC Championship isn’t the only thing on the line when the Giants play the 49ers Sunday.
Mayor Mike Bloomberg and San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee announced Wednesday that the two cities had a friendly wager on the game. If the Giants win, Mayor Lee will drape Giants flags over one of San Francisco’s iconic cable cars and send some sourdough bread to New York City.
In return, if the 49ers pull out a win, Mayor Bloomberg will rename 49th Street in Manhattan “49ers Street.” He will also send Mayor Lee a dozen New York bagels from Bagel Oasis in Flushing, a frequent winner of the Queens Tribune’s Best Bagel in Queens award.
“Just like Hakeem Nicks ran right past the Packers’ secondary, the Giants are going to breeze by the 49ers on their way to the Super Bowl,” Bloomberg said. “After Sunday, Niners fans will be left with a taste as sour as their famous bread, and the Giants will have their sights set on another trophy.”
On this, the Queens Tribune wishes him Lox.
Family Biz
Queens is notorious for being home to “crime families,” but perhaps never any this nuclear.
A father, his wife and their daughter were convicted of defrauding 19 immigrants from the Caribbean of more than $1.8 million.
The Ramsundar family, Shane, Gomatee and daughter Shantal were convicted of grand larceny and other charges in connection with the scheme, which took money from immigrants seeking a better life in the United States.
The Richmond Hill family was sentenced to a combined 418 years in prison. At least they’ll be together for the holidays.
QConfidential is edited by: Michael Schenkler. Contributors: Ross Barkan, Marcia Moxom Comrie, Veronica Lewin, Mike Nussbaum, Domenick Rafter. You can reach us by email at Conf@QueensTribune.com.
Fax to Conf (718) 357-0972
Or you can reach us by mail:
"Confidential"
174-15 Horace Harding Expressway
Fresh Meadows, NY 11365