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Addabbo Wins Reelection by Matthew Hampton and Brendan Brosh- Forest Hills, NY Patch

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Senator Joe Addabbo with wife Dawn - Photo Brendan Brosh

Joe Addabbo Jr., freshman state senator from Ozone Park, retained his seat on Tuesday night over challenger Anthony Como, despite a wave of anti-incumbent sentiment that characterized the campaign season.

Addabbo, who spent much of his first two years in state office helping to put together the Aqueductdeal and attempting to create jobs in the community, saw his work pay off on election night, when he finished with a more than 5,000 vote unofficial margin over challenger Anthony Como.

Como, a former city councilman, had the backing of the entire state Republican caucus, who saw the seat as a key to taking back the state Senate.

At his party on election night at Russo's On The Bay, Addabbo said he was thrilled with the chance to return to his seat.

"I'm so grateful all the people came together," he said. "We had 500 volunteers."

Without conceding, Como addressed supporters in his office in Glendale. He struck some conciliatory tones with his somewhat crestfallen staff, but tried to keep a stiff upper lip.

"I'm very proud of the race we ran together as a family, as a team," Como said. "Many of you were here day one, many of you were here before day one….unfortunately here we're not exactly happy with the way that it went, but until all the numbers are in we're just going to wait and see."

Como pointed to some voter discrepancies and irregularities at the polling sites to give his supporters a glimmer of hope, but by the time most of them had gone home, his deficit had grown to more than 5,000 votes.

Addabbo volunteer Sean McCabe, 27, of Ozone Park, said he thought the voting system had a few problems but that ultimately the board of elections got it right.

"The new system has a few hiccups. They could get better with it," McCabe said. He also added that he was hopeful that Addabbo could help turn the economy around during his second term in Albany.

After his victory speech, Addabbo admitted that he and his colleagues have a lot of work to do.

"We have a lot of repairs that go beyond politics," Addabbo said. "When we talk about dysfunction it's unbiased."

Thugs Crash Cheyenne Jeudy's $50G Sweet 16 Party in Queens by William J. Gorta - New York Post

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TROUBLE: Cheyenne Jeudy was having the time of her life at her Sweet 16 party in Queens -- until goons from a neighboring party invaded the soiree and allegedly groped her friends and beat up her cousin.

It was supposed to be a pretty cheerleader's dream Sweet 16 party.

But the $50,000 celebration turned sour when thugs attending a wedding at the same Queens catering hall crashed the affair, molested teenage girls and walloped the guest of honor's cousin, a new lawsuit says.

Cheyenne Jeudy spent months preparing for her blowout bash, which included the teen performing three choreographed dance routines.

Her mom, Denise, a city cop, spent two years preparing for the party, attended by relatives from as far away as Trinidad and Canada.

But according to a lawsuit filed by Denise Jeudy, the festivities turned ugly because Russo's on the Bay, a Howard Beach catering hall, had no security in place to prevent guests at another party from molesting young girls at the Sweet 16 and beating up her nephew outside.

The mayhem ruined what had been a perfect night for Cheyenne, a pretty cheerleader at Lawrence HS on Long Island who aspires to join her mother in the NYPD.

"They [the party crashers] were drunk. They were feeling my friends up while they were dancing, pulling them down on the floor with liquor in their hands," Cheyenne said. "I was embarrassed. I was pissed off."

The party was supposed to be every girl's fantasy -- and Denise Jeudy and her transit-worker husband, Frank, went all out trying to make the day special for her only daughter.

She said she spent thousands of dollars on choreography, costumes for Cheyenne and the other dancers -- including traditional Carnival outfits worn by revelers in her native Trinidad.

She booked the bridal suite at Russo's on the Bay, what she thought was a "classy place," after attending several affairs there.

She also splurged on limousines, tuxedos for her three sons and an ivory gown with a train for Cheyenne's grand entrance.

"She's the only daughter I have," Denise Jeudy said. "This is our princess."

Cheyenne wound up in tears by the end of the night after one of the wedding guests was arrested for allegedly stomping her cousin, Anton Lowe, who had gone outside for a smoke after chasing some of the interlopers from the Sweet 16.

The four men -- Neville Laibhen, Einstein Laibhen, Steve Perrin and Andy Delbrun, all of Brooklyn -- were arrested on assault and weapons charges after the July 2008 dust-up and pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct at arraignment.

The quartet and Russo's on the Bay were all named as defendants in the lawsuit, which was filed in Queens Supreme Court earlier this month and demands several million dollars from each defendant.

Perrin said he was just part of the fight and had nothing to do with the party crashing.

The others did not return calls for comment.

New York Families for Autistic Children (NYFAC) Annual Dinner Dance Honors Governor David Paterson at Russo's on the Bay...

Governor David Paterson

State Senator Malcolm Smith

Senator Joe Addabbo and Assembly Member Audrey Pheffer with Guest

Senator Joe Addabbo and Assembly Member Audrey Pheffer

Senator Malcolm Smith with Pamela Baumann

Andrew Baumann with Governor Paterson

Barbara Roth with Governor Paterson

Barbara Friedman with Governor David Paterson

Senator Malcolm Smith with Governor Paterson

Andrew Baumann

Andrew Baumann and Barbara Friedman

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Mallory Lewis with Lambchops