Models Of Queens
Comfortable On The Runway

Carol Ann
Age: 22
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 112
State: 34B, 24, 34
UModels.com

After temping for the New York Times, this Middle Village resident is devoting her summer to her modeling career. But Carol Ann Maniatakis admits, it’s not easy.

“I would love to be in Victoria’s Secret,” said Carol Ann, who also imagines herself in Self Fitness magazine or modeling XOXO clothes. She would model in swimsuits or even tasteful semi-nude shots, but never nude.

“I’m too shy. Plus my dad would kill me,” said Carol Ann.

What Carol Ann likes about modeling is having her emotion captured at that very instant. Besides, as the youngest in her family, she lives off the attention.

Carol Ann’s first stop for modeling was taking courses at John Casablanca, a modeling agency in Forest Hills. She was taught how to feel comfortable on the catwalk in front of people.

“I kind of knew it from my dancing,” says Carol Ann. After ten years, Carol Ann says she’s done with ballet, but she’s kept up the body of a ballerina, with swan-like legs and a straight composure.

“I can eat at Burger King and McDonalds and not gain a pound,” says Carol Ann. She keeps in shape by running the track at Juniper Park.

She also acts and sings for a hobby. She was an extra on HBO’s hit prison series “OZ,” where she appears as an anti-nuclear power plant protestor.

 “I can sing and everybody tells me I should do something with it,” says Carol Ann.

She has lived in Middle Village for the past 7 years and went to Christ the King HS. “I like the fact that my neighborhood is quiet. People say ‘hello.’”  She received her associate’s degree at Queensborough Community College in Management and Marketing and plans to go to Queens College for early childhood education.

Carol Ann’s regular hangouts include Le Cue Billiards on Grand Ave. and Bridie’s Irish Pub on Woodhaven Blvd. for girls' night out. She likes to shop at Stop and Shop or the Queens Center Mall.

So even though she is taken, what would this beauty look for in a guy?  “Honesty is number one,” says Carol Ann. “I don’t expect him to be romantic but a little romance is nice.”

She's at UModels.com #7594.

It's Not Easy Being Green

In 14 Queens city council races, there are exactly five Green Party candidates on the ballot. Five. You could count them on one hand. And, yet, as if the odds aren’t already stacked against them, two of those five candidates are running against each other.

Paul Graziano and Evergreen Chou, two Green Party members running for District 20’s City Council seat, will participate in the first Green Party primary ever held in council history.

Graziano, who has a strong background in land use and CUNY issues, believes in “the end of uncontrolled urban development” in Flushing. Chou, a delegate for Union 1199, is more concerned with social issues, such as public housing and union organization. Graziano, 30, has lived in Flushing all his life, while Chou, 40, has lived there for 11 years.

The two Green Party candidates are familiar with each other, having already run against each other for State Committee last year. Chou, who lost that election, said, “I think Paul and I are both excellent candidates. We both believe in certain ideals, but we focus on different aspects. We’re not really against each other. We just emphasize things slightly differently. We have a lot of respect for each other.” When Graziano was asked if splitting the Green ticket would hurt the party, he said, “Unity is just a code word for the loss of democracy. Everyone who wants to run should run.”

With only 71 registered Green Party voters in District 20, each Green Party candidate only needs five signatures to get on the ballot, making it easier for “everyone who wants to run” to run. Both Chou and Graziano accomplished the feat in one day. Graziano said, “It’s the only advantage we have, even if it makes people laugh.”

Graziano wasn’t laughing, however, when a reporter from a major New York daily called the prospects of a Green Party primary “cute.” “That’s insulting,” Graziano said. “Cute? We’re serious about this campaign and we have a real chance to win.

“Ignore us at your peril.”

Chou added, “I’m realistic. We don’t have the numbers. But we can yell louder than anyone.”

Six Degrees Of Giuliani

Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s non-amiable divorce has grown a lot of branches and one of the weirdest of those wild branches grew into our peaceful borough.

We all know the story. Rudy married Donna. Rudy spent time with a “good friend” Judith in the Hamptons while still married to Donna. Judith is divorced from Bruce. Judith and Bruce have a sixteen-year-old daughter. Judith has legal custody of the daughter. Donna filed for a divorce from Rudy. Donna got the judge in the case, Judith Gische, to ban Judith (the good friend) from Gracie Mansion. Bruce filed for custody of the 16-year-old daughter because Judith is “completely focused on her relationship with her new boyfriend and is not interested in spending time” with her daughter. Judith told a judge to help the 16-year-old get help because while staying with Bruce, the girl got bitten in the face by a dog, which shows that Bruce is incapable of taking care of the daughter.

This is where this soap opera branches into Queens. According to reports, the daughter had told her father that she was going to study for a Regents exam. Instead, she headed to a friend’s apartment in Richmond Hill around 2 p.m. and had drinks with other underage drinkers. Her mom had forbidden her to visit this apartment.

Sometime later, a pet Rottweiler ripped into the teen’s face, tearing it so badly that muscle tissue was “hanging” from her face, her mom said in court.

Her treatment for this bizarre attack, 45 stitches, was complicated by her Richmond Hill binge. Her blood-alcohol level was so high that it prevented her from getting general anesthesia, so local anesthesia had to be used.

All Star Honors Fire Heroes

In a world of multi-million dollar baseball players, it’s good to see that not all athletes simply take the money and run.

Such is the case with New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza who recently showed the Big Apple that when it comes to generosity he really is an All-Star.

According to sources, Piazza plans to donate half of his $50,000 All Star Game bonus to the families of the three firefighters killed while on duty battling a deadly blaze in Astoria on Father’s Day.

The fund, set up by the Uniformed Firefighters Association and the New York Post,has raised over $500,000 to date.

Confidentially New York . . .

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