Friday, July 20, 2018
Vol. 94, No.43
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Ladybugs loosed PAGE 6 n Making music PAGE 20
Proposal aired for new St. Paul's recreation center
DRIVE IN MOVIE NIGHT
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
These kids were in a great spot on Saturday, July 7th for “Drive-In Movie Night” at the Garden City Country Club. Movie candy was handed out, as was popcorn. The animated movie “Ferdinand” was shown. Photo by John Ellis Kordes
New Building Superintendent appointed BY RIKKI N. MASSAND Ausberto “Ozzie” Huertas, the superintendent of building for the village since 2015, resigned from his post in June to take a position as commissioner with the New York City Department of Buildings. At the start of the Board of Trustees’ July 10 meeting Mayor Brian C. Daughney made an announcement and thanked Huertas for his service in Garden City, as an agenda item for the trustees his successor would
be voted on in short time Tuesday night. “Ozzie is a quality guy with a lot of knowledge. It was not easy following in the footsteps of (37-year building superintendent) Mike Filippon, anytime you bring someone new in you get a lot of criticism and complaints just because you are trying out new stuff. He (Huertas) deserves credit as we greatly appreciate his work on the digitization of Building Department records, and that will greatly increase our department’s
productivity and clarity. We wish him good luck in the future,” Mayor Daughney said Tuesday night. Giuseppe Giovanello has worked in the Village of Garden City Building Department over the past 18 months and he served as assistant superintendent under Huertas. For Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi, the hiring process to replace Huertas after three years at the helm was simple: hiring from withSee page 39
With a concept plan for the St. Paul’s campus unveiled in front of a capacity crowd inside the Garden City Casino on July 17th, Garden City got a glimpse into what could be a future sports and recreation hub. Representatives of the Manhattan-based restorative architecture and structural engineering firms, Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB) and Thornton Thomasetti, along with Garden City Mayor Brian C. Daughney and Village Trustee Louis Minuto led the event, which was the first of several presentations sessions scheduled. In the audience Tuesday night were nearly all the executive staff members from the village, Town of Hempstead Supervisor Laura Gillen and over 200 residents, including all eight members of the Board of Trustees as well as members of the (volunteer) Architectural Design Review Board, a large contingent of past and current leaders of the Garden City Historical Society and the preservation director from Preservation Long Island. They listened as Beyer Blinder Belle’s Carlos Cardoso, AIA, partner and director of Construction Administration, spoke about the vision for the former St. Paul’s school, built in tribute to Garden City’s founder Alexander Turney Stewart, which was finished in 1883, juxtaposed with a modern community-oriented sports, recreation and “gameday” venue. While sports would be the largest component and land use, the facility concept included 50,000 square feet for potential theatre, dance and musical performance spaces; the possibility of a state-of-the-art S.T.E.M. lab and learning center for children, plus the Recreation Department offices and program rooms. Some images presented for the public were reminiscent of Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, as glass exterior siding would be in line with the original front facades of St. Paul’s, plus repurposed brick moved from the existing structure to the additions, as Cardoso said the brick components will match and no new brick would be ordered for See page 38
GC swimmer breaks Nassau conference record PAGE 54 Sensational start to summer on Seventh Street PAGE 46