The Garden City News (1/5/24)

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Friday, January 5, 2024

Vol. 101, No. 1

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Hospital pays to upgrade sewer line

Year of Giving PAGE 18 n Choral Evensong PAGE 9

EAB reviews aircraft noise concerns

TREE OF CARING

BY RIKKI MASSAND In accordance with an agreement the village made with the NYULangone Healthcare system, the Village Board of Trustees allocated $800,000 to partially fund a sewer main upgrade for 1111 Franklin Avenue (the former Sears building). At the trustees’ meeting on December 14, prior to a vote to appropriate the $800,000 Village Treasurer Irene Woo explained the financial plan per the agreement. The temporary Certificate of Occupancy for NYU Langone at 1111 Franklin had been issued by the village’s Building Department, and that allowed for Garden City to appropriate the $800,000 from the deposit NYU Langone previously made, Woo said. “This is a result of the agreement with NYU Langone to fund the sewer main upgrade project which is needed as a result of the intended use of the former Sears building requiring the sewer upgrades. Their deposit initially provided to the village was a little over one million dollars so the board authorization would formally allocate the funding – we will be keeping the $800,000 and refunding the remainder to them,” she told the trustees. She noted that the agreement also includes $50,000 that NYU Langone is contributing for the sewer upgrades to the former Lord & Taylor building along Franklin Avenue. “Once the temporary C.O. is See page 55

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BY RIKKI MASSAND

In December former Garden City Village Trustee Laurence Quinn, a longtime member of the Environmental Advisory Board (EAB) shared developments in the ongoing efforts to mitigate loud noise from aircraft over central and southern Long Island up to the eastern Queens border. Many of Quinn’s reports to the EAB in the past decade followed monthly meetings of the Town-Village Aircraft Safety and Noise Abatement Committee – known as TVASNAC – convened with officials from the Town of Hempstead. He said that for 20 years Garden City has been involved with the TVASNAC See page 54

Board mulls moratorium on ‘certain businesses’ BY RIKKI MASSAND

Garden Manor Nursery School was excited to host Santa Claus for a pre-Christmas visit. Santa was most impressed with the school’s “Christmas Tree of Kindness and Caring” which was decorated with socks, hats, gloves and scarves to be donated to needy families at the INN in Hempstead. See page 58.

The Village Board of Trustees set a public hearing date of its first meeting of the new year, on Thursday, January 18 at 7:30 p.m., to consider a new local law to establish a temporary moratorium on “the application, acceptance or approval of building permits by Village Boards or Commissions, staff members and officials for certain retail uses in the Village of Garden City.” As explained by Village Attorney Gary Fishberg at the December 14 trustees’ meeting, the proposed See page 44

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