Clockwise from left, Steven Talles, CEO of Onex, City Council Peter Koo, Michael Dana, president of Onex, tennis star Michael Chang, Assemblymember Grace Meng, Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, and Peter Tu of Flushing Business Association; Dana, Chang and Talles; Chang in a model apartment and coaching kids on the courts

The unveiling of a new spa, tennis and basketball courts at Downtown Flushing condominium Sky View Parc this past Sunday, featuring US Open tennis champion Michael Chang, drew various real estate pros and city officials, including Michael Dana, president and CEO of Onex Real Estate Partners, which developed Sky View, New York City Council member Peter Koo, Assemblywoman Grace Meng and Senator Toby Ann Stavisky.

Chang coached elementary and high school kids from the area in a hitting clinic as well as the kids currently living at Sky View Parc. Guests also toured the homes on offer at the complex. – Katherine Clarke [more]

Queens residents were up in arms last week after an erroneous report suggested that the Parkway Hospital, a shuttered health facility at 113th Street and 71st Avenue in Forest Hills, would be reopening as a detention center. Rep. Anthony Weiner, who represents Brooklyn and Queens, along with State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky and Assembly members Andrew Hevesi and Karen Koslowitz, held a press conference outside the hospital yesterday in order to assuage fears that the facility, which closed last year after a “state recommendation,” according to the New York Times, would be converted into a prison. The kerfluffle erupted after both the Queens Courier and the Queens Chronicle quoted an Oct. 15 deposition, in which the building’s court-appointed mortgage receiver said: “aside from a health care facility, there would be few viable uses for the building such as a low-security correctional or detention center or a halfway house.” Last week a federal judge dismissed an early-stage injunction to reopen the facility.