Models Of Queens
A Man on the Move

David Jacobs
Howard Beach
Height: 6’0”
Weight: 175
Umodels.com  

David Jacobs says his favorite leisure activity is traveling, and he’s got the resume to prove it. 

With most of his trips going to Caribbean destinations, Jacobs has island-hopped to St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Margarita island, St. Marteen, and Turks and Caicos.

 His favorite spot, however, is Jamaica, which he has visited seven times.  “Negril is the best place to go,” says the Howard Beach resident who also has a business booking travel vacations.

Back in the states, Jacobs has modeled for Elle magazine, and appeared in credit card commercials on cable television. 

“I like modeling because you get to meet so many people,” said the Queensborough College graduate.

The former owner of an American-style restaurant in Manhattan said he enjoys the Greek food in Astoria, but his favorite Queens restaurant is Tieberios, a Northern Italian establishment in Rockaway Beach.

Celeb Siting

    According to the title of English pop singer Craig David’s new album, the smooth crooner is “Slicker Than Your Average,” and according to some Bayside stargazers, he has Queens to thank for part of it.

    Some amateur paparazzi recently let QConf know that the sexy star has been spotted several times at Bay Terrace Shopping Center, grabbing some trendy threads at the newly opened clothing store Beginnings Bleus.

    An employee at the store confirmed that some of David’s slick look came from Queens, as did employees at a neighboring FYE music store and at a nearby Victoria’s Secret. 

    Still, Conf wanted the news from the source, and tried to contact David’s “people” to see if his favorite “flava” is located in Queens. Unfortunately, we never received a response, but Bayside spies swear that the R&B king buys his fashions at Bay Terrace.

    Keep an eye out, Queens. If you see him, grab a photo and send it our way.

The New Norm(ans)

Brooklyn Assemblyman and Dem County Leader Clarence Norman, the (Assembly’s) newly-appointed deputy speaker, is not the only member of his family leading flocks in New York.

QConfidential has discovered that for about a year now, his brother, the Rev. Edward Norman, has been the pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in Southeast Queens where he leads a flock of several hundreds.

 Clarence, a leader in Brooklyn politics for years, has survived one scandal after another to become the number one politico in Kings County and the number two guy in the Assembly.

The brothers Norman are making it in Albany and St. Albans. One’s winning souls, one’s winning votes, both doing it their way.

Over There

    There’s a Queens Queen in the hills of Afghanistan. 

    Ginny Byrne Queen, wife of the late Newsday columnist/reporter Joe Queen, is a foreign correspondent for Associated Press in Kandahar, Afghanistan, AP collegues inform QConf.  

    Ginny, a Bayside resident, said she had hoped to report for AP during the “original” Gulf War.

Queens Board

“Displaced, misplaced and nostalgic ex-Queensites,” an online message board says, can find their home on QueensBoard.Com, where they can write and respond to messages from other former Queensites.

The Board also features a photo gallery of Queens classes past, a missing persons log, class reunion listings, alumni database, and surveys and studies about Queens people. 

Written in the message board are entries of one Astoria woman trying to track her genealogy, a former Jackson Heights resident inquiring about the Boulevard Theater in Jackson Heights, and a former Sunnyside native reminiscing about old shops that lined Greenpoint Avenue. 

Nostalgic Queensites can even purchase their class picture for $15 if their school is listed in the database.

The survey section – though it has not been updated since 1997 – is interesting to peruse to see how people responded to when, where, and why they left the borough, what they thought of the Queens educational system, and where they went to dine out and watch movies.