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| School, Music & Modeling
Theresa Morris
Home: South Ozone Park Age: 22 Height: 5’ 3" Weight: 120 lbs. Stats: 34-28-34 NYPhotoByNick@aol.com Many college students have to get a job to supplement their living expenses while they are living on loans. The difference between those students and Theresa Morris is she models. “I just like it,” she said. “I’m happy that I can do it right now.” Morris, 22 attends Boricua College in Brooklyn where she is working toward her master’s degree in social work. “I really like to help people and this is a good way to do it,” she said. Boricua College is a college tailored for Puerto Ricans, an ethnicity Morris wears proudly. Although Morris does not see modeling as a full-time career, she has been modeling since she was 17. So far, she has been featured in runway shows by clothing designers and has been featured in a music video soon to be released. Now it’s auditions. Music is a hobby for the young model, who enjoys singing as well as writing her own songs. “I’m in the process of recording right now,” she said. For the most part, however, Morris describes her self as a normal girl from South Ozone Park. “Most of the time, I’m just hanging out with my girls,” she said. |
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| Spare Time
Queens drivers were able to listen to more radio, catch up on more news and have longer conversations with passenger than most according to a recent study.
Regrettably, the reason for these perks is because drivers were sitting in traffic. The study released last week by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University ranked the NYC region the second-worst in the country after L.A. Drivers might as well get used to it if they haven’t already, according to the study commutes are getting even longer nationwide. Queens ranked highest in the nation for commuter length at 41.7 minutes a day, so there’s a possibility that you’re reading this in traffic right now. |
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| In The Moo'd
...and the Cow Jumped Over...Union Turnpike?
Queens-ites had a cow over a cow that ran amuck in Briarwood last week. A white-and-brown cow – yes, cow – led cops and firefighters on a chase through the residential neighborhood for nearly an hour. According to published reports, witnesses began calling 911 after seeing the cow trotting along Union Turnpike. Emergency service vehicles finally cornered the cow in a yard, but it didn’t go without a fight. The cow named Maxine was transported to the Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y. Authorities do not know where the cow came from or how it escaped, though they believe it was heading to the slaughter house because of a tag glued to the fur. In 2000, a young cow escaped from an Astoria slaughterhouse. Her life was spared to live out on an upstate farm. Maxine’s new nickname? “Queenie.” Naturally. |
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| Ugly Wins Big
The first successful ugly woman in the history of television took home Emmy gold at the 59th annual Emmy Awards.
“Ugly Betty” actress America Ferrera beat out four actresses including Felicity Huffman of “Desperate Housewives” and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” to be crowned top dog on the Emmy food chain for lead actress in a comedy series. Ferrera, who is no ugly duckling, will reprise the role of Betty Suarez from Queens with this week’s start of the second season. Betty is a young woman in her 20s who aspires to be in the fashion industry and gets her start by working at the fictional fashion magazine “Mode.” Betty is the All-American girl with Latin roots. She is one of us, the not so beautiful people. Ugly never looked this good. |
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| Like Father, Like Son?
Following in his father’s footsteps, it seems that Peter Vallone Jr. may be contemplating a run for the city’s highest office.
Speaking at a fund-raiser in Astoria last week, former City Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr. said his son, who was elected to the City Council in 2001, will in 2009, run for Borough President of Queens. . . and then, after eight years, he will run for Mayor. A spokesman for Junior called dad’s statement “parental over-exuberance,” noting that the councilman still has not yet formally declared that he is running for Borough President. Insiders tell QConf it's just a matter of time until the announcement. Vallone Sr. made an unsuccessful run for Mayor in 2001 after having sought the Governor’s office three years earlier. For Junior, after Beep Vallone, doesn’t DA Vallone has a nice ring to it? |
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| Another Manhattan Cell Job
College Point, once home to Flushing Airport, remains central to New York City transportation if only because Nab Construction Company has its offices there.
Nab Construction has rehabilitated a great deal of the city’s infrastructure, including the Throgs Neck and Whitestone bridges, the Union Square and 72nd Street subway stations, as well as Newark and JFK airports. And so it only makes sense that Nab is a partner in carrying out the Transit Authority’s latest project: wiring subway stations so that you’ll be able to have cell phone conversations from entryways, mezzanines, platforms and transfer passages. Underground service is yours, if you live in Manhattan that is. The first six stations to acquire cell phone service are all located on the inner island. MTA officials said that “wiring the stations would help riders during emergencies, like the flooding that knocked out much subway service last month.” Whereas flooding might rot a Queensite’s home, it could cause someone in Manhattan to miss a meeting. Service will be suspended in the tunnels so that other passengers won’t be unnecessarily disturbed. Alas, some etiquette remains. It would have been even more polite, however, to bring this cell technology to Queens: the home borough of one of its main facilitators! | |||||||||
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