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Roller Coaster Gal
Let’s not jump to conclusions here.

Just because Christina Lina Satnarine graces the QConfidential page doesn’t mean she’s a pretty face with blinding ambition, hoping to be known in every living room. Quite the contrary. Just a few living rooms will do.

The Bronx native, now a Queensite, is studying education at Hunter College.

“I just love working with children and want to help them,” she said.

Modeling? Christina sort of just dropped in by accident.

In fact, she just had her first professional shoot done (the results of which you see here).

“I don’t want to make a living out of it. It’s just something I do on the side while being a student,” Christina said. “If an opportunity comes for me to get big, I’ll take it, sure. But I see myself as being a teacher who also happens to model.”

In the meantime, she finds herself so bogged down in academic life a social life comes second.

“Between work and school, I don’t have much time for fun,” she said.

But for a sure-fire good time, Christina runs to the amusement park. She openly admits to being a roller coaster buff and loves Six Flags’ “El Toro.”

And when she’s not screaming her lungs out on a coaster, Christina hits Astoria, her “favorite neighborhood Queens.”

“It has a little village feeling,” she said. “With the little houses and you see kids playing in the street. You don’t see that much where I live.”

In fact, she loves the borough so much, only one thing could make her leave.

“Really high prices on houses.”

Christina Linda Satnarine
South Ozone Park
Age: 18
Height: 5’4"
Weight: 117
Stats: 36-25-36

 
 
Gary Eats Humble Pie

Gary Ackerman eats a “half moon” cookie in Utica, and graciously called it “the best black and white I’ve eaten all day.”
Queens Congressman and Tribune founder Gary Ackerman got into some hot water in a cold place recently when discussing why he wasn’t interested in filling Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat, he said his focus is local and “I don’t do Utica.”

The comments drew the ire of the people of the Mohawk Valley, and local Congressman Mike Arcuri invited Ackerman up for a taste of all Utica has to offer.

Last Monday, Ackerman made the trek. “Who knew?” he quipped in his opening remarks at a press conference. “I never would have guessed.”

Ackerman was treated to a tour of local cultural sites, a brewery and the gift shop at the Meyda Tiffany museum, where he was on the phone with his wife, Rita, a couple of times discussing gifts.

“She didn’t want anything too schmaltzy,” he said. “Do they say that here in Utica?”

You can take the boy out of Queens…
Keep Your Motor Running

Leroy Comrie and protesters against motorcycle noise legislation
Motorcyclists from across the city are revved up.

Bill 416A, in the City Council has riders screaming foul and Councilman Leroy Comrie of St. Albans is bellowing just as loudly with raised fists.

The bill would make it illegal for any motorcycle to be on city streets unless it has an exhaust system with a stamp that states it’s approved by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency. Penalties include steep fines and motorcycles being temporarily taken away.

Although the bill has languished in the Council for two years, last week the Committee on Public Safety chaired by Astoria’s Peter Vallone Jr., voted in favor of the bill which sent it on to now be considered by the full council.

We can’t wait for the showdown between Comrie and Vallone, with a photo of each atop a roaring hog – Vallone’s with the muffled exhaust pipes.
Birdbrain?

A legal battle against the city waged by South Ozone Park’s resident pigeon lover is getting tied up in more red tape than a bird’s nest.

Cecil Pitts sued the city early this year when he was slapped with a $500 fine by the health department because his daily backyard feedings became a nuisance to the neighborhood. But Justice Charles J. Markey of State Supreme Court in Queens denied the claim on the basis that he had not filed an appeal with the health department before suing the city.

Looks like Cecil’s in the pits and he’ll have to start again.
McNamee Throws A Curveball

Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee
Roger Clemens’ former trainer, Queens Native Brian McNamee, filed preemptive paperwork at Queens Supreme Court that reserves the right to sue the former Yankees ace and alleged steroids user.

The summons filed against the seven-time Cy Young Award winner claims McNamee was libeled and slandered to the tune of $10 million.

All of this comes a year after it was learned the former Rockaway cop owes American Express about $36,000 in unpaid debt.
Feather in Avella’s Cap

Wild Quaker Parrots with a friend
Councilman Tony Avella is drafting a law that will protect some of New York City’s most colorful characters – Brooklyn’s wild Quaker parrots. The birds, also known as Monk Parakeets, are native to Argentina, but somehow found their way to New York City in the late 1960s. Large colonies of the parrots have settled at Brooklyn College and Greenwood Cemetery, where their nests are causing cumbersome electricity outages and holding up construction projects.

Avella’s bill, which has not been written yet, would prevent poachers from capturing and selling the parrots and, instead, proposes a plan to move the birds to humane farms.

“I think it’s the right thing to do,” Avella said. “These parrots are using New York City as their nesting home and they should be protected from illegal poaching. Whenever there is construction, we should make a reasonable effort to relocate the nest rather than destroy it. It’s only right since we share this planet with them.”


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