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CoMMUNITy UPdaTE Infections as of May 26
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Infections as of May 21 4,116
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Vol. 28 No. 23
JUNE 3 - 9, 2021
Street projects are the talk of the town when the Nassau County Legislature enacted a Complete Streets Law, which called for Two street improvement proj- roads that de-center privately ects, the Baldwin Complete owned vehicles and serve the Streets Project and the Down- needs of everyone, including town Revitalization Initiative, pedestrians, bicyclists, public have been approved and budget- transportation users, older peoed to improve street ple, children and and pedestrian safethose with disability along Grand Aveties. nue and Mer rick Then in 2014, Road, respectively. county Department Both projects are of Public Works confunded mainly tracted LiRo Engithrough state grants neers to conduct a and supplemented traffic study of existby county money, ing and future condil e av i n g B a l dw i n tions, which was with no bill. funded by the New Complete Streets York Metropolitan addresses a 1.4-mile Transportation stretch of the Grand Council through the Ave nu e c o r r i d o r Nassau County Unified Planning between Stanton Department of Work Program. Avenue and Merrick With input from Public Works Road, and the DRI county public works begins at Merrick officials, county and Road, between Pershing Boule- Town of Hempstead elected leadvard and Harrison Avenue. This ers, the Baldwin Civic Associaoverlap has given pause to some tion, the Chamber of Commerce, Baldwin residents and officials, Vision Long Island and Baldwin who say there may be funding residents, the final report was and work redundancies between released on June 9, 2016. the projects. The design and engineering The foundation for the Com- phase of the project began in plete Streets Project was laid in 2013, before the DRI existed, Continued on page 3
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remembering the fallen Baldwin residents held one another and listened in respectful silence to the Memoriai Day ceremony hosted by the American Legion on Monday.
Eatery owners react to new Covid guidelines By NIColE alCINdor nalcindor@liherald.com
Baldwin restaurant owners said they had mixed emotions about the new Covid-19 guidance handed down by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that increases capacity limits, lifts the nightly curfew and removes the mask mandate for those who are fully vaccinated. Social gathering limits are to be increased to 500 for outdoor
venues and 250 for indoor spaces. Cuomo removed the curfew that was set for outdoor dining areas on May 17 and indoor areas on May 31. A d d i t i o n a l l y, C u o m o announced that the state was adopting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new guidance on mask use, which allows fully vaccinated people — those who have had both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines or the single dose
of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for two weeks — to go maskless outdoors, except in certain crowded settings. Masks, however, must still be worn indoors and by people who are not fully vaccinated. “Oh lord, I really hope people will be honest about whether or not they’ve been vaccinated,” said Queens resident Tanesha Darling, who owns Rock and Continued on page 4
assau County is not using state DRI grant funds for this [Complete Streets] project.