Diana

Home: Jamaica
Height: 5’3"
Weight: 127 lbs
Stats: 34D-25-36
Age:20  

This 20-year-old Jamaica, Queens beauty got into modeling three years ago when a friend started a modeling agency and asked Diana to help out.

Since then, her unique look has helped her earn modeling gigs with some of the biggest names in fashion.

Diana has done countless photo shoots for magazines including Black Hair, runway modeling and print work in magazines.

According to Black Cartel, the Southeast Queens-based agency that represents Diana, she’s a hot commodity and a rising star.

In the photo you see here, Diana is wearing clothing from Black Cartel’s  line called “After Dark” – a top selling label at the Green Acres Mall.

Black Cartel CEO Derrick Jones said that Diana is the perfect model to wear the After Dark line because, like the clothes, she is unique and elegant.

About being one of Black Cartel’s biggest stars, Diana said “I’m excited.”

When she’s not traveling between photo shoots, Diana studies computer science on the campus of SUNY at Farmingdale.

Although she is interested in staying in shape and enjoys spending her time exercising, she does give her brain a workout through studying for her computer courses and watching movies.

A favorite place for her to catch a flick is at Crossbay Theatre in Ozone Park, she said.

You may also catch a glimpse of Diana at the USA Diner in Rosedale – a favorite spot of hers for an après-movie bite to eat.

QC Beats Yale

Queens College students and grads across New York City were thrilled to academic pieces after watching the Feb. 21 episode of “The Weakest Link” on CBS, during which 21-year-old QC student and frat brother Erwin Escobar won $17,500 – and beat a student from Yale to do it.

Escobar tried out for the program at the New York Hilton during the summer of 2001, and received a call shortly afterwards inviting him to be on the show in Los Angeles. Escobar went, and ended up on the college edition of the show, facing students from the University of Florida, Florida A & M, Carnegie Mellon University, NYU and Yale.

It turned out that the two final contestants on the episode were Escobar and the Yale student, prompting the show’s host George Gray to tell the audience to get ready for, “The first time Queens College is going to take on Yale!”

Escobar quickly wiped the grin off of Gray and every Ivy League face in the crowd when he beat the Yale student in the best two out of three final round. After Yale answered two straight questions wrong and Escobar answered one correctly, he won the round by correctly answering the question: “The main campus of which Ivy League university is located in Ithaca, New York?” Escobar said Cornell, he was right, and Queens College, a Flushing school that costs less than $4,000 a year to attend, went down in the history books as beating big, bad Yale.

In victory, Escobar yelled, “New York, baby. QC, baby.”

What did the Yale guy say?

Goodbye.

OnStar Queens

    The roads around Forest Hills and Francis Lewis Boulevard were showcased on the 11 p.m. Channel 4 News recently, when Asa Aarons, consumer reporter, determined Queens to be the most difficult borough to get around.

    Aarons was testing a product recently, called, “On Star Auto,” a live phone service giving travel directions and local information to motorists who subscribe.

    While driving around, asking the amiable woman on the phone for directions, he said, “This borough has the most complicated streets in the city.  There’s a 68 Road, a 68 Street, and a 68 Drive.” But, the operator directed Aarons in and out of confusing street markings.

    Then, as he drove east along the Long Island Expressway near Francis Lewis Boulevard, Aarons asked for a nearby eatery. The operator responded, “Look for the Blue Bay Diner on your left.”

            Aarons concluded, “If this works in Queens, it will work anywhere.”

Wake-Up Call?

We’re always hearing talk about how City officials are perking up City parks. But what gives with Parks Department employees?

A QConfidential reporter found it necessary, on Feb. 17, to dial-up the folks at the Parks Department’s “800” number to ask if someone would radio a department truck driver to wake him up – or make sure he was breathing.

The bright green garbage truck, bearing the numbers C2126 and 8227, pulled up on a Long Island City street at about 2 p.m. on that sunny Sunday afternoon. The driver munched on French fries, downed a drink, then curled up to catch some zzz’s. Trouble was, he was still out cold, against the driver’s side window at 4:30 p.m.

That’s when the QConfer called the “800” number, where an operator seemed flabbergasted by the information.

A phone call about 20 minutes later, woke the driver who rubbed his eyes, stretched and then fired up his motor and stormed away.

Parks officials would not comment on the incident, or on how – and who – woke the earring-clad driver.

Just Like Mike?

He’s Mike Bloomberg.

He’s on the news every night.

You might ask, so what?

But we’re talking about Chicago here.

Confused?

Well the Mike Bloomberg we’re talking about isn’t the billionaire leader of the Big Apple. He’s from the Windy City and if you lived there you could see him each night on Chi-town’s CLTV doing the nightly news sportscast.

Mike has been to training camp with the Chicago White Sox, won four Associated Press awards and has covered everything from the NCAA championships to high school sports.

But according to CLTV’s web site, “any rumors that Mike is related to the mayor of New York City are completely false.”

Happy Holidays

Next March 4, residents of Queens and parts of Long Island should be sure to wish everybody a happy Bernard Haber Day.

At the March 4 meeting of Community Board 11 in Bayside, 30-year chairman Haber retired from his position after Board-imposed term limits took effect. Haber received several proclamations using words like “dedicated,” “caring,” “effective,” and “hard-working,” and he happily thanked everyone for the kind words.

He also thanked representatives of Queens Beep Helen Marshall and Congressman Gary Ackerman who both presented proclamations at the meeting naming March 4 Bernard Haber Day in Queens and in the Fifth Congressional District.

The Fifth District snakes its way along Long Island's north shore deep into Suffolk County where they never have heard of Haber, Community Boards or perhaps even Bayside.