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New funds for children’s room $1.3 million in federal money earmarked for project at Baldwin Public Library eral funding will help cover a portion of that. The planned library The Baldwin Public Library improvements include redewill receive a new state-of-the- signing the children’s room to art children’s room after Con- enlarge the play area and allow gressman Anthony D’Esposito more sunlight in, expanding secured nearly $1.3 million in the arts and crafts and teen federal funds for the project, rooms, creating a community space on the second floor and officials said last month. g roup rooms for The library projstudying or remote ect is part of work. Re p u bl i c a n C o n “A n e x c e l l e n t gressman D’Espoc h i l d r e n ’s r o o m sito’s total of $15 gives our youngest million in Commuresidents the best nity Project Fundstart they can get ing grants that he toward becoming has obtained for successful adults,” the 4th CongressioE l i z ab e t h O l e s h , nal District, which the library’s direcencompasses much o f t h e Tow n o f t o r, w ro t e i n a n Hempstead, includ- ElIZABETH OlESH email. “Our renoDirector, Baldwin ing Baldwin. vated space will T h e l i b r a r y Public Library i n cl u d e f e at u re s would receive that families have $1.295 million for the children’s asked for, such as more natural room, which Democratic Sens. light, a better story time room, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten and a larger play space. Gillibrand also helped support “Beyond this, an excellent from the House and Senate public library, including the Appropriations Committee. best possible children’s room, Residents approved an $11.6 is a benefit in any community million referendum for library and helps attract new resiimprovements that includes dents,” she added. “We are the children’s room at last g r a t e f u l t o C o n g r e s s m a n year’s Baldwin School District’s budget vote, and the fedCoNTiNued oN page 5
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Courtesy Michael White
Baldwin native Michael White’s work can be seen throughout the community he once called home. Though he now lives in New Jersey, he receives inquiries from people looking for art that depicts their childhood homes.
Now in N.J., but focusing on Baldwin Michael White remains active on L.I. through his art By HERNESTO GAlDAMEZ hgaldamez@liherald.com
Though he now lives in Red Bank, New Jersey, Baldwin native Michael White, 54, maintains a strong connection to his Long Island roots from 70 miles away — through his art. The works of White, a 1987 graduate of Baldwin High School, adorn the walls of the high school cafeteria and the Baldwin Long Island Rail Road station — a depiction of the beloved Nunley’s Carousel amusement park, which once stood at the corner of Milburn Avenue and Sunrise Highway. The attraction opened in 1940 and operated until 1995, when it closed and the land was sold to Pep Boys. At the high school, White’s legacy is a
mural that represents the spring season, with sketches of plant life and trees around the high school in an idealized ancient Greek landscape, in Cafeteria B. In New Jersey, where he is a professional artist, White fields inquiries from residents of Baldwin, Garden City and communities on Long Island, who commission paintings of their childhood homes, business establishments or historical buildings. This all started eight or so years ago, when White was living in Garden City and was asked to paint a mural for a commercial building in Long Island City. The mural, of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, 20 feet wide and 15 feet high, was painted directly on the sheetrock wall of the building. CoNTiNued oN page 3
ur renovated space will include features that families have asked for.