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Adelphi president addresses student parking in village
A NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Garden City families enjoyed a tribute to Billy Joel at last Friday night’s Seventh Street Promenade. Tonight’s Promenade will have the theme “Swing Into Seventh Street” and will take kick off at 6 p.m.
Familiar face for new pool season BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
In the mid-1980s Steve Espey, longtime director of the Garden City Pool, was hired to be a Village Recreation Department staffer by Paul Blake, then the department head of Garden City Recreation and Parks. The 2019 summer season kicked off on Tuesday, June
11, when Blake returned to his old post for the monthly meeting of the village’s Board of Commissioners of Recreation and Cultural Affairs (Rec. Commission) and led discussions with Steve Espey, three volunteer commissioners, Rec. supervisor Tom McGerty, roller hockey program director Andrew Karen and Lori Kampe,
Rec. administrative assistant. Blake told the newest Rec. Commissioner William P. Garry, appointed to the Commission last month by the Board of Trustees, that one of his first items of business is ensuring the maintenance and pristine appearance of the village-owned green spaces. Blake has heard some of the See page 44
Issues involving “town-gown” relations were discussed as leadership from Adelphi University, the oldest institution of higher education on Long Island, met with 40 residents from the Estates’ Property Owners Association of Garden City. At the meeting inside the Garden City Senior Center on June 12, Adelphi President Dr. Christine Riordan spoke about construction plans and renovations over the next year-and-a-half for Adelphi’s Ruth S. Harley University Center (commonly known as the student union and dining hall) including its 20,000 squarefoot addition to the building. The project, approved by the university’s board and by the various Village of Garden City boards and commissions, carries an anticipated cost of $34 million. Dr. Riordan told the Estates’ POA that according to Adelphi’s data, 74% of Adelphi’s student population are commuting students from Long Island as well as the five boroughs of New York City and surrounding suburbs including Westchester, Rockland and Orange counties. Riordan stated that Adelphi University brings in over $500 million of economic impacts to the Village of Garden City. Adelphi currently has student enrollment of approximately 8,000 and over 2,000 employees on-campus. “We are a major part of this community and we’re trying to be a really good partner in every way. We draw students from Nassau and Suffolk, the greater State of New York as well as from out-of-state. Those students who commute to the university need a space where they can hang out while on campus; a place to relax in between their classes,” she said while describing major renovations planned for the Ruth S. Harley Student Union center, as construction is expected to take place soon and completion in Fall 2020 is targeted.
Students’ Parking in Estates
At the year’s first meeting of the Garden City Traffic Commission, held Thursday, January 17, 2019, Estates section residents who live very near Adelphi complained to the Commission that Adelphi students park on residential blocks in front of their homes — specifically on Brompton Road between South Avenue and Salisbury Avenue — and walk into the campus rather than use on-campus parking. Five months ago Village Trustee and Estates section resiSee page 42
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