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UNDEFEATED SEASON
Voters choose preservation for St. Paul’s
In voting on Saturday, October 21st, Garden City voters chose to preserve the St. Paul’s main building. With 4,339 residents casting votes in the opinion poll, 2,635 chose the option that will lead to preservation of the building, while 1,704 chose demolition. The preservation option includes scenarios of partial or full preservation of the building,
The senior players of the Boys Varsity Soccer Team, which is first seeded in the playoffs after having an undefeated season. See page 55. Photo by Ed Rotondo
Experts advise village on preserving St. Paul’s stained glass BY RIKKI MASSAND
In his report to the Garden City Board of Trustees at their meeting on Thursday, October 19, Village Administrator Ralph V. Suozzi told the Board that an expert on stained glass preservation recommended removal of the stained glass windows in St. Paul’s –
regardless of what future use the village deices to make of the main building. Suozzi shared information about the October 13 visit made to Garden City by stained glass restoration and preservation specialist Ettore Christopher Botti, the president of Botti Studio of Architectural Arts – a nationally recognized company
headquartered in Evanston, Illinois. The board meeting took place just two nights prior to the conclusion of voting in the St. Paul’s Opinion Poll, in which roughly 60% of residents selected preserving the 1880s structure. Botti was the third stained glass expert to view the winSee page 33
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including possibly retaining the front facade and building a modern structure behind it. The vote is not legally binding on the Garden City Board of Trustees, according to Village Attorney Gary Fishberg, because the Board is not allowed to cede its legislative authority. However members of the Board have said they will use it to guide their future actions.
GC couple cites recent SCOTUS ruling in suit BY MEG MORGAN NORRIS A Garden City family which faces eviction has received an emergency reprieve in light of a United States Supreme Court decision from May 2023. The owners of the property, an elderly couple, lost title to an investor when they didn’t pay a Village of Garden City tax bill of $6,970. The property, located on Dover Court, is valued at approximately a million dollars. According to court papers, the couple had owned the home for 49 years.
Under New York State laws, when a home is lost due to mortgage foreclosure, or failure to pay taxes, the owner loses the entire value of the property, not just the amount of the debts. This excess value, known as “equity,” becomes the property of the purchaser. However, in May 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled that when a municipality forecloses on a property it may not retain that excess equity, but instead must return it to the former owner. See page 30
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