Kia
Home: Jamaica
Height: 5’ 4”
Weight: 115 lbs.
Stats: 34-28-36
Hair: “Jet Black”
Eyes: Brown
Black Cartel  

    Twenty-two-year-old model Kia may share a name with an economy import car, but she distinguishes herself with the beauty and substance of the most exclusive of vehicles.

    The Jamaica resident already has two bachelor's degrees, in business management and sociology, and is now going to the University of Connecticut to get her MBA in management and information systems.

    She’s been modeling for six months now with the Southeast Queens-based Black Cartel modeling agency, having done a few fashion shows for names like Peter Black, Disturbing the Peace and House of Nines.

    She’s having fun modeling, but wants to make a profession in the fashion world behind the lens.

    A self-professed corporate junkie and “nerd in technology,” Kia wants to be an online marketing consultant for fashion labels.  She already has a deal to do web marketing for a Greenwich Village boutique.

    But her real passion is community service.  Kia is an active member of her church –  the giant Allen A.M.E. on Merrick Boulevard  – and spends her weekends mentoring a 10th-grader through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. 

    The beautiful role model not only shows her new little sister the world of arts and entertainment, but of “the business side of things,” too.

    “What I like best is being able to return to the community what was given to me,” Kia said.

    Right now, Kia is writing a film script based on her life as a young girl in Brooklyn and a young woman in Jamaica. 

    She tells the story of going against great odds, along with friends who have also been successful, including a doctor, a lawyer and a teacher.

    “We all came from the projects and we’re trying to make something better of ourselves,” Kia said.

The Fort Totten Subway To D.C.?

A QConfer was surfing the information superhighway and stopped off at a link to an alternate Fort Totten...well, almost.

The site advised that the reader take the Fort Totten Station “located literally in the middle of Fort Totten Park.” The site added that the station “serving the Red line has an island platform and a gull-wing roof, similar to the Silver Spring and Takoma Stations. In the mezzanine are transfers leading to the lower level Green line platform.”

Doesn’t sound like subway lines in and out of Bayside, Queens? Good catch – in fact the subway doesn’t go to Queens, but it does apparently go through Fort Totten Park in Washington D.C.

Don’t believe us, check the link yourself at www.nycsubway.org/us/washdc/red/wmata-red-totten.html.

Cute Or What?

Woodhaven native Adrien Brody melted hearts with his Oscar-winning performance in “The Pianist,” and apparently, with his tall, dark and handsome looks, too.

Brody was named E!Online’s ninth most eligible bachelor in the media outfit’s list of the top 25 hottest available  male celebs.

Brody was beaten out by dreamboats the likes of George Clooney, Justin Timberlake, and Manhattan’s Vin Diesel, but was able to beat out studs like Dennis Quaid and Tiger Woods among others.

Queens should be proud.

And Brody wasn’t even the only Queens connection in the top 25. Toby McGuire – the baby-faced cutie who came in 20th on the list – plays Forest Hills resident Peter Parker in the big screen version of Spider-man; and Paul Walker – the sexy blonde who starred in “The Fast And The Furious” – is listed as coming from Glendale...but in California.

Still, Brody is the only direct Queens connection, and E!Online doesn't even make that fact clear. Brody is listed on the site as coming from “New York City” instead of Queens. That would be fine if the other New Yorkers on the list were identified the same way, but they weren’t. Eligible bachelor number 13 Jimmy Fallon is listed as coming from Brooklyn.

Fair or not, you can find the top 25 bachelors at www.eonline.com.

Chart Topper and Best Seller?

Can Queens rapper 50 Cent go from the top of the music charts to the top of the best seller list?

He seems to think so, according to published reports, which said that he is seeking a six-figure advance for his biography.

The book has a working title of “Number One With Nine Bullets” – a reference to when he was shot nine times in Jamaica, Queens before becoming hip hop’s hottest artist of the moment.

The book reportedly details his life from the time his “drug dealing” mother was shot and killed when 50 Cent was eight-years-old to catching his big break, reported 987Kiss.com, the website of NYC music station 98.7 Kiss FM.

If the rapper lands a publishing deal, the book could be in stores as early as September, according to the website.

Meet the Mayor! 

District managers and chairpersons from Queens community boards convened at Gracie Mansion on May 18 – about a week early for the big Rudy wedding.

With their counterparts from all five boroughs, they were there to meet the current mayor, shake his hand and pose smiling next to Bloomberg.

It’s an annual event, at which Bloomberg shows his appreciation to the selfless leaders of the City’s community boards.

But Mike had been listening to recent polls, so it was no forgone conclusion that everyone in his mansion even wanted to take a picture with him. Hey, if there are people who wouldn’t even have dinner with the mayor, there are certainly those who wouldn’t want to appear in the same photograph.

So, according to an insider, Bloomberg asked the roughly 120 community board hoohahs if they “still want to take a picture with me.”

His tongue and cheek comment got a laugh, and not one visitor declined to stand next to Mike and show their pearly whites.