A14 • THE HALF HOLLOW HILLS NEWSPAPER • MAY 15, 2014
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Asian fusion creates colorful palate at Ting Asian” cuisine. There are cheese and truffle oil; the menu includes a Mini Burger Bento ($14) and an Oven Roasted New Zealand Rack of Lamb ($29). There are appetizers like Tuna Pizza – a round flatbread-like crust topped with mozzarella, raw tuna, avocado, sliced cherry tomato, generously-sprinkled tobiko, drizzled spicy and wasabi mayo and assorted leaves and petals – and Wonton Sushi Tacos with crunchy yet delicate shells and tartars of tuna, salmon and yellowtail. But the sushi rolls, Zheng said, are often most attractive to people because they are “glamorous.” The Sex on the Beach ($14) combines shrimp tempura with spicy tuna, white tuna, avocado, tobiko, spicy mayo and eel sauce. The Playboy ($13) consists of spicy salmon, peppered white tuna, avocado, crunchies, toboki, Thai chili and wasabi mayo sauce. The Spicy Girl ($14) is spicy tuna topped with spicy yellowtail and wasabi tobiko. “Everyone that orders the Sex on the Beach roll always giggles a little bit,” the owners said. Perhaps of less traditional aesthetic pleasure in the realm of sushi is the roll called “Sandwich” ($14) – an arrangement of spicy salmon, spicy tuna and avocado in
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sesame soy paper, topped with spicy mayo and wasabi mayo. The roll is not a roll at all – it is cut into triangular pieces and looks like a sandwich cut in half – but its flavors are just as cohesive as its appearance. The sushi and the restaurant’s other options, including Chicken and Broccoli, General Tso’s Chicken, Lo Mein and Pad Thai, are prepared in separate locations within the establishment. There is the sushi bar, and then there is the kitchen. The head chefs in charge of each section have been in the business for about 15 years each, Zheng said, and the head kitchen chef has invested much of his time in creating the best sauce recipes. “We have something for everyone almost,” Zheng said.
Ting 92 East Main St., Huntington 631-425-7788 Tingrestaurant.com Atmosphere: upscale, sophisticated Cuisine: Modern Asian fusion Price range: Moderate Hours: Mon-Thurs. 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sat./Sun. 12-11 p.m.
The “Sandwich” roll ($14) looks like a sandwich but is actually spicy salmon, spicy tuna and avocado between layers of sesame soy paper. The roll is topped with spicy and wasabi mayo.
Vacant home registry tied to blight laws (Continued from page A5)
fined from $1,000-$15,000 for each parcel they fail to register. The vacant property penalty is steep on the blight scale, as it should be, Berland said. “The consensus between the Town Attorney, Public Safety and myself is that the abandoned structures can lead to so many other things that it should be a big point total. It should be higher up on the list,” she said. The town’s blight ordinance, passed in
2011, established a blight registry aimed at remediating dilapidated homes and commercial buildings. Once on the blight registry, residential programs are assessed a $2,500 “registration” penalty, and businesses are charged $5,000. From there, homeowners can enter restoration agreements with town hall to rectify the blight condition; if that doesn’t work, the town can come in and fix the blight themselves, then bill the property owner on their tax bill. In extreme cases, the town can get an administrative ruling officer’s consent to
tear down the property. The board approved two such cases – one in East Northport and another in Huntington Station – on May 6. Larry Feld, a commissioner of the Dix Hills Fire District, said the intensified focus on vacant properties will help keep firefighters safe. Berland said that the proposed law was inspired by a Dec. 12, 2013 fire in a vacant home on East 20th Street in Huntington Station that left two firefighters with minor injuries. “We can program it in the alert field in
our computer so when we’re responding, we’ll know it’s an abandoned house and we’ll know there are possible hazards,” Feld said. Those hazards, he said, could range from general dilapidation to holes in floors, squatters, debris, blown-out windows or partial structure collapse. “It’ll change our whole tactic in the way we approach an interior fire. We’ll put our guard up,” he said. The proposed law will be the subject of a public hearing on June 17.
Addicts talk truth about region’s drug crisis (Continued from page A3)
“Everything I regained in those four months of rehab from my parents, I lost immediately,” he said. “I had my best friend, basically in tears, begging me to stop. I said, ‘I can’t stop… I want to, but I can’t.” He stopped using in August 2012 and has been clean ever since, he said to applause. Likewise, Sarah first tried pills at age 15. That quickly escalated to ecstasy and then cocaine, which resulted in the first of her two stays in a psych ward. After her second stay in the psych ward, Sarah moved back in with her mother, and she began attending 12-step meetings with
the desire to become sober. But she relapsed with a fellow recovering addict and discovered heroin. Within a week, she was shooting up. When her mother, Debbie, sought a long-term, in-patient rehab for her daughter, beds were few and far between. As she searched for a facility that would admit her daughter, she also had to “go through hoops” to get her into a 28-day facility, all the while watching her daughter like a hawk until she could be admitted. Then, there was the matter of finding a residential facility for long-term care – and getting her insurance to cover the treatment.
“With the insurance companies – she’s too young, she’s too old, she’s not in withdrawals; we don’t take insurance. I ran into a million different obstacles,” she said. Meanwhile, from the front lines of the drug war at Northport High School, Principal Irene McLaughlin said her vantage point is just as heartbreaking. McLaughlin said she’s called countless parents, called the police after students were discovered in possession of drugs – everything but heroin and cocaine, she said – and crafted case-by-case responses to drug cases. She said that she views every incident as an opportunity for an intervention, to help “her” kids get back on track. McLaughlin meets with neighboring
principals three or four times a year, and they share stories about experiences in their buildings. For McLaughlin, there is no other choice. The consequences are too dire not to fight. “We share our similar experiences, and trust me when I tell you, there are many meetings where people leave the meeting because our kids are dying,” she said. She became silent, choking up before applauding Northport’s willingness to openly discuss the crisis. “Do we have a problem in our community? No question about it,” she said. “We are also a very brave community. A lot of communities are very reluctant to admit there is a problem.”
Court won’t over turn ruling on attorney fees (Continued from page A1)
when an alleged affair between the harbormaster and councilwoman broke into the spotlight. Perks claimed said he and the married Scarpati-Reilly consummated the affair consensually more than 200 times. The salacious accounts were soon splashed on the pages of New York City tabloids and The New York Times.
Perks claimed he tried to break it off with Scarpati-Reilly in 1998 after he got into a relationship, but Scarpati-Reilly allegedly threatened his job if he ended the affair. Following a physical altercation on an oil platform in Cold Spring Harbor on Feb. 28, 1999, Scarpati-Reilly contacted police and the town attorney, and Perks contacted his boss, former Department of Maritime Services Di-
rector Jody Anastaisa. Perks argued the Town Attorney’s office refused requests to represent him in November 1999, and that’s when he turned toYule.That December,Yule and Perks’ union, Local 342 Long Island Public Services Employees, filed a grievance against the Town of Huntington. While that grievance was denied, he then filed a demand for arbitration with the NewYork State Employment
Relations Board (PERB) in August 2000. Following a wave of litigation, the arbitrator ruled in February 2009 that the town breached a collective bargaining agreement by not paying Perks’ legal fees. Farneti signed off on the order in February 2012, finding that Perks acted reasonably in seeking outside counsel. Perks remained in his post as harbormaster until he retired in 2007.