Friday, June 18, 2021
Vol. 81, No. 25
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Legislators, community groups condemn hate
In response to the alarming increase in attacks against the Jewish community and the acts of hate seen across America, Nassau County Legislators Arnold W. Drucker and Joshua Lafazan joined with the Woodbury Jewish Center, and community organizers to condemn these acts on the front steps of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive & Legislative Building during the “Stop Anti-Semitism and Hate Now” rally on Sunday, June 13. Legislator Ducker and an array of speakers called attention to an alarming recent increase in anti-Semitic violence and incidents around the world. This includes reports by the ADL which indicate a 63-per-
cent rise in anti-Semitic attacks last month nationwide and 2019 statistics from the FBI Hate Crimes reported that shows how anti-Jewish bias accounted for 60.2 percent of anti-religious hate crimes. “Throughout my lifetime as a Long Island resident, my family and I have not been spared from the painful impacts of anti-Semitic bigotry. While this hateful undercurrent has always lurked in the darkest recesses of our society, a recent string of brazen, violent incidents targeting Jewish people have shown that the threat has morphed in an alarming way,” LegisSee page 10
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“Big Dig” goes on with no end in sight? BY GEORGE HABER
Legislators Arnold Drucker and Joshua Lafazan joined with their colleagues in government and supporters of the “Stop Anti-Semitism and Hate Now” on Sunday, June 13. Photo courtesy Office of Legislator Arnold W. Drucker
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Hidden from public view, with no updates from the construction company or Amazon, the “big dig” on Robbins Lane in Syosset continues into its third month, as ground is prepared for Amazon’s massive new warehouse/sorting center off the Long Island Expressway. Declining to release any information about the progress of the project, contractor Whiting-Turner Construction, and Amazon headquarters in Seattle give no indication when the 204,000 sq. ft. facility is expected to be completed and operational. “It’s disturbing to have no idea when we’ll start seeing big trucks and vans rolling through the area to and
from the facility,” said Jay Roberts a long-time resident of East Birchwood. Amazon’s warehouse/sorting center is slated to occupy almost forty acres on the former Cerro Wire site on Robbins Lane in Syosset, off the LIE. The facility is planned to be one-story high with four loading zones to accommodate twenty vans per loading sector. There will be sixteen loading docks in the building. Amazon spokesmen told the Birchwood Civic Association that 49 tractor-trailers would be serving the facility daily, “most” arriving after 6 p.m. Delivery vans would return to the facility between 7 and 9 p.m. The spokesmen told the BCA, “The See page 10
Arrest for gun possession Nassau County Police arrested a Connecticut man on Friday, June 11 for allegedly possessing a handgun illegally. According to police, highway patrol officers observed a male operating a 2016 Yamaha motorcycle southbound on Sunnyside Boulevard. Police say the motorcycle’s license plate was improperly displayed and the operator entered a 7-11 parking lot located at 160 Sunnyside Blvd. without signaling. According to police, when the man exited the store, the officer began to conduct an investigation regarding the motorcycle’s registration. They
say the operator was uncooperative, refused to comply with the officer’s commands and attempted to get on the motorcycle to flee the scene. According to police, the officer grabbed the motorcycle to prevent the operator from leaving. They say the man then got off the motorcycle and fled northbound on Sunnyside Boulevard. He then allegedly dropped an item on the side of the road, which was a handgun. Police arrested Isaac Cabanas, 25, of New London, CT. and charged him with Criminal Possession of a Weapon 2nd Degree and Obstructing Governmental Administration 2nd Degree.
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