Friday, August 18, 2017
Vol. 93, No.48
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Lobsterfest PAGE 8 n Summer carnival PAGE 38
Adelphi plans expanded University Center, dining and ballroom upgrades
A NIGHT OUT ON SEVENTH STREET
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Three lovely ladies enjoy last Friday's Seventh Street Promenade. This week the theme will be "St. Patrick's Day". Enjoy Irish Step Dancing, music and food from 6-10 p.m. on Friday, August 18th.
Village hosts 100th anniversary commemoration of Rainbow Division BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
As a crowd of nearly 400 people gathered off of Clinton Road, just south of the fire station, the pageantry of American flags, assembled soldiers and patriotism captured a summer Saturday afternoon in Garden City. Mayor Brian C. Daughney was joined by Deputy Mayor Theresa Trouvé, Trustee Mark Hyer and Trustee Stephen Makrinos in welcoming distinguished guests from all around the country. Superintendent of Public Works and Deputy
Village Administrator Joseph DiFrancisco stood nearby, in between the Board of Trustees and the military and National Guard dignitaries, the Garden City Fire Department and GCPD personnel on hand. But every face in the crowd gathered for different reasons, from their own personal service or their fallen family members to curiosity and tracing local history. The O’Sullivan family lives walking distance from the memorial, over on Raymond Court. In the last 23 years they raised three children here, and
their youngest just graduated from NYIT in the spring. They value the history of Garden City, as the Mott section houses were where military officers’ headquarters stood. Their own street was on a picture displayed next to the Rainbow Monument at the August 12 ceremony, as Michael O’Sullivan said the original officers’ housing had been relocated and is now a private home at the end of the block. They also noted the original Vanderbilt (Long Island) See page 30
Adelphi University will be bringing an application for expanding a key facility to the village’s Architectural Design Review Board (ADRB) when it meets on Tuesday, August 22, and to the Village Board of Trustees at its September 21 meeting. The first step was approval gained from Garden City’s Planning Commission through a 6-0 vote at its August 9 meeting. The ADRB’s agenda for Tuesday August 22 lists plans on file from Hans Erdenberger R.A. for the west side of the university’s Ruth S. Harley University Center (a student center), adding the 6,200 square feet. Last Wednesday night at Village Hall, Robert Shipley, Adelphi’s assistant vice president for facilities, addressed the Planning Commission. Adelphi and its architecture team laid out a new floor plan for the center, including a part of its exterior greenspace which Shipley says is rarely used. Better use of space was planned as Shipley said the scope of the project is to upgrade the indoor, first-floor dining facility for students, faculty and staff at Adelphi. “There will not be any increases in enrollment because of this. Mostly what’s driving the space requirements is a change in the floor plan of the building. To give students more variety we are splitting out the large dining area to sit separate island stations as opposed to one general line-form cafeteria. We are also giving the bookstore, which is currently on our lower level, some space on the main floor for added visibility. With some reconfigurations, the floor plan requires and the program requires that we expand on the west side of the building,” Shipley told the Planning Commission. Commission Chairman H. Bradford Gustavson asked if increasing the cafeteria options and space would create more waste at the end of each day. Shipley says he doesn’t think that would become an issue due to any dramatic increase. Adelphi’s architect explained that the loading dock area for the student center is going to be expanded with the new floor plan, “wrapping it around to the addition.” However the building’s overall footprint, situated behind berms just adjacent to South Avenue in the village, would not change at all. The Commission asked if expanded refrigeration units would fall within the existing setback lines from South Avenue. Shipley said nothing would be moved past where the existing building’s borders lie. The substantial new refrigeration, to be used only for See page 30
GC's "A" Swim Team takes fifth consecutive title PAGES 40-41 Squeezing out the last drops of summer fun at LICM PAGE 42