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Stranger pays for elderly Queens couple’s sidewalk repairs
Stranger pays for elderly Queens couple’s sidewalk repairs
News Melissa Chan 9/05/2012 at 4:08PM

A good Samaritan — and complete stranger — has stepped up to aid an embattled, elderly Whitestone couple burdened with the charge of sidewalk repairs they say should not have been on their hands to begin with. Judith Smith, 68, and her husband Everett, 71, were told by the city’s Department of Transportation in June [...]

Whitestone couple faces walkway woes
Whitestone couple faces walkway woes
News Melissa Chan 8/30/2012 at 3:07PM

An infuriated Whitestone couple has a bone to pick with the city after they were pinned for violations on 70 square feet of sidewalk outside their property line. The city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) told Judith and Everett Smith this June to fix two broken and improperly sloped concrete slabs of sidewalk, according to a [...]