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“Gravity of the Sculpture: Part II” will remain on display at The Dorsky Gallery, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City, through July 3. Call (718) 937-6317, email david@dorsky.org or visit dorsky.org.

On Sept. 15, 1922, Joseph Sendek, a Hungarian immigrant and professional wood carver, bought a 20-by-30-foot house at Queens Boulevard and 55th Avenue with his wife Mary, for $4,000. The lot was 52 feet wide and almost 170 feet deep.

The 1940 Census had six of their children living there: Mary, Victor, Edward, Ernest, Richard and Eleanor. The boys’ occupation was listed as “butcher.”

One day, while biking to work, Jessica Findley noticed her jacket flapping in the wind. She was working on a project with inflatables at New York University at the time and conceived the idea of a group of bikers wearing inflatable costumes. She mentioned her idea to a friend, but soon forgot all about it.

Following the September 11th attacks when Findley was “not in a good place,” her friend called and encouraged her to pursue the idea.

If you were born and raised in Ridgewood and you still remember your first small-screen box television set, chances are good it came from Ulan’s on Myrtle Avenue.

Ulan’s was a fixture in Ridgewood for four decades. It was located at 55-01 Myrtle, on the corner of Saint Nicholas Avenue, in what had been Roxy Clothing Store.

From 1975 to 1979 the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia.

Its leader, Pol Pot, envisioned a preindustrial society centered around small rural villages. He vacated the cities and forced everyone to move to the countryside where they were born. Artists, intellectuals, urbanites and anyone with even a hint of opposition were the first of the two million people out of a country with a population of eight million executed.

Theatre Time Productions presents “Once More with Feeling,” a musical cabaret, at the Colonial Church of Bayside, 54-02 217 St., on Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 28 at 3 p.m. Call (347) 358-8102. $18/$16 seniors and students.

As late as 1937 the region of Union Turnpike from about 168th Street all the way east to 232th Street contained nothing except the Hillcrest Golf Course Hillcrest Riding Academy and The Hillside Park Riding Academy.

Suddenly all at once, starting in 1937, the neighborhood was developed by various builders such as Chevy Chase Homes at Union Turnpike and 188th Street, Paul Roth’s Holliswood Homes at Union and 188th, and the biggest player of all: Gross-Morton Homes, which practically covered the whole area from about 170th to 190th streets.

When ordering a plate of seafood paella, you might imagine traditional images of Spain, like flamenco dancers and plucking guitarists, not necessarily the whitewashed houses and ancient ruins of the Greek isles.

But some Greek chefs in Astoria are ushering in a new wave of Greek fusion cuisine, combining traditional dishes with other ethnic influences or modern flourishes.

In 1928 the community of Laurelton Homes was one of the most beautiful and affluent communities in Queens. It was built by the Gross Morton Organization, which constructed upscale homes for an upper working class.

Gross Morton broke all records by selling 570 homes in less than three months in 1928. More than 10 percent of the one-family homes built in all of New York State that year were sold by Laurelton Homes.

Author Stephen Maitland-Lewis hopes his novel “Emeralds Never Fade” will put another personal face to the history of the Holocaust so that these “horrors are never repeated.”

His book, which he will be reading from at Queens College on April 21, chronicles the fictional lives of two boys living in Germany in the late ’20s. Leo Bergner is Jewish and Bruno Franzmann is not.