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Working to ease patients’ pain at NUMC The clinic combines the knowledge of physicians from the departments of Physical A pain clinic that was Medicine and Rehabilitation, launched at Nassau University Anesthesiology, Neurosurgery Medical Center in East Meadow and Musculoskeletal Radiology. in September 2020 has grown “A lot of patients who we deal over the last year and a quarter. with don’t have access to this The clinic, which started with care elsewhere,” Weinberg said. e i g h t p at i e n t s a “. . . The benefit that week, now has 30 to we have is that any 35, NUMC doctors patient in the hospisaid. tal is easily referred NUMC’s Intervento us.” tional Pain Clinic, Once patients launched by Dr. Paul have been evaluated, Weinberg, of the their treatments are Department of Anesdecided after doctors thesiology, and Dr. consider the severity Paul Pipia, of the and tenacity of the Department of Physpain. Instead of ical Medicine and ingested medicines, Dr. Vinay Kudur Rehabilitation, offers treatments can multidisciplinary include topical meditreatments to help reduce and cations, minimally invasive proeliminate pain without medica- cedures like joint injections and tion. implantable devices, spinal and “We’ve had a lot of success epidural injections, cryotherapy with the clinic,” Pipia said. “We (cold therapy), stem-cell therapy, don’t have many patients on medication management, and advanced pain medication now. physical therapy and rehabilitaOur goal is to get them off of tion. pain medication and get them “Our approach is not to be back to a more productive life.” using narcotics but to use other “There was a growing need medicines such as numbing for alternative pain treatment medications and steroid medicaoptions,” he said, “and we were tions to solve the problem rather missing that part.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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COUSINS ARIANNA, LEFT, and Mila LaRosa, both 8, waited eagerly for Santa to call their names at Borelli’s restaurant, during a breakfast hosted by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Military families share a hot meal and a visit with Santa By MALLORY WILSON mwilson@liherald.com
Vinny Cafiso, of East Meadow, said helping military members and veterans is dear to his heart. On Sunday, Cafiso helped host a breakfast with Santa for local military families at Borrelli’s restaurant in East Meadow, attended by about 30 children. Cafiso and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal organization found-
ed in 1819 that is focused on helping those in need, put the breakfast together. The organization’s creed is “visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the or phan.” T he name derives from the types of men who formed the organization. “My son’s in the military; my father and father-in-law were in the military,” Cafiso said. “I don’t think enough is done for the veterans.” This is the first year that
the group held a breakfast for military families or those who live in the Mitchel Manor military housing development in East Meadow. “When I found out that they wanted to do this, I thought it was such a great idea,” said Allison Vardakis, of East Meadow. “Normally, depending on where you’re stationed, you will have a USO near you, and they would do something like this, CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
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E.M. tree lighting spreads holiday cheer The East Meadow Chamber of Commerce and the Council of East Meadow Community Organizations held the 22nd annual holiday lighting on Dec. 2 at Veterans Memorial Park. Dolores Rome and Liz Fries, who coordinated the event, helped East Meadow spread holiday cheer at the event. George Reimers, James Rome, Christine Mooney and Frank Camarano helped bring the park to life with decorations and Patrick Curry, David Gravely and Dave Jones helped with the tree ornaments. Holiday tunes were enjoyed by all from the East Meadow High School Holiday Ensemble, conducted by Chris Bonacorsa. And there was face painting provided by Pat Tropea. The East Meadow Fire Department stopped by with Santa, who brought candy canes and fire hats for children. Residents enjoyed hot chocolate, courtesy of the local 7-Eleven and donuts by Dunkin’ Donuts from a table manned by Boy Scouts from Troop 362 and Lisa Hallet. The girls from Daisy Troop 1119 made an appearance too as little elves.
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MANY RESIDENTS CAME to Veterans Memorial Park on Thursday, above. BOY SCOUTS, LEFT, helped carry the flags at the ceremony. SANTA ARRIVED TO greet children, far left. SEVERAL GIRL SCOUTS dressed up as candy enjoyed an evening of fun, top left.
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A ‘little gift of sunshine’ for hospitalized kids “What better way to receive comfort then to have something to snuggle up to and read a book or have your parent read Being in the hospital is hard, especial- one to you,” Pulice said. “When I don’t ly for children, which East Meadow resi- feel good I like to be on the couch with a dent Tracy Pulice knows only too well. blanket and read a good book too.” When her 23-year-old son Thomas Allred Donna Goldstein, East Meadow Counwas 18 months old, he had several surger- cil of Parent-Teacher Associations presiies at Children’s of Alabama, dent, said the relationship in Birmingham, where Pulice that the district has with was living. When she moved NUMC is a special one. Conto East Meadow in 2003, tinuing Blankets and Books Thomas needed an additional gives PTA members a good surgery. She drove him to feeling because they want to Children’s, because she knew help, she said. the doctors there and her Like Pulice, Goldstein experiences had been posionce had a child in the hospitive. tal during the holidays. “I Parents were permitted to know how difficult it is,” she stay with their children at said. “With Blankets and Children’s, so Pulice saw Books, we want to give a little firsthand how much her son gift of sunshine.” enjoyed going to a room filled Dr. Sehar Ejaz, the interim with the toys and books. chair of pediatrics at NUMC, “Children could walk or be said there are roughly 40 to 50 wheeled in there and it was children currently admitted therapeutic, because it resemat the hospital, many of bl e d a p l ay ro o m , ” s h e whom come from families recalled, adding that children that cannot afford to buy holicould take a toy or book back day gifts. The East Meadow to their room. “And they PTA was very generous, she could take the toy home with said. them as they recovered.” “This really brings a smile Fast forward to 2013, when to their faces,” she said. “It’s Pulice was experiencing her happiness.” first year as president of the Kelly Jones has been the East Meadow Council of Parchairwoman of the Blankets ent-Teacher Associations. and Books Committee for After leading a successful three years. She started colPTA drive for the county’s lecting the blankets, books TRACY PULICE Toys for Tots Drive, she realand toys in later October. ized the program did not ben- Founder, “People were very generefit her community. And Blankets and Books ous this year. I think they there were children in an wanted to do something for East Meadow hospital that the community,” she said. would enjoy receiving toy donations. “They even dropped off things on my Inspired by her son’s experience at Chil- porch.” dren’s, she started “Blankets and Books” Jones said coordinating the drive was in 2014 for the children hospitalized at personally rewarding. She attributes its Nassau University Medical Center. success this year to a big push on social The district’s PTAs and community media, where she posted details of how to collect blankets, books and this year also donate. toys, which are brought to the hospital On Tuesday, children at NUMC during the holidays. Prior to the coronavi- received a holiday present in the form of rus pandemic, PTA representatives were coloring books, crayons, baby clothing, able to go into the hospital to deliver the blankets and even handmade crocheted donated items to children. hats.
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hat better way to receive comfort then to have something to snuggle up to and read a book or have your parent read one to you. When I don’t feel good I like to be on the couch with a blanket and read a good book too.
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EAST MEADOW HIGH School student Karolina Bajda, center, was joined by high school Principal Richard Howard, left and high school counselor Carly Salzman.
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The East Meadow School District is proud to announce that East Meadow High School scholar Karolina Bajda was accepted to the Institute of Creative Problem Solving for Gifted & Talented Students at SUNY College at Old Westbury. Bajda is among the 85 students who will pursue the study of mathematics and its applications. To qualify for this honor, the 85 students the institute selected for its three divisions competed against approximately 450 of the top-ranking students recommended by educators from public and private schools on Long Island. Selection by the institute implies that a student is among the top one-tenth of 1 percent in math of all students on Long Island in his or her grade. Acceptances were based on
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The annual East Meadow Fire Department Breakfast with Santa will be held on Sunday, from 9 until noon, at East Meadow Fire Department Engine Company 4, on the corner of Carman Avenue and Rob Reed Lane in Westbury. There will be plenty of pancakes, bacon and sausage with complimentary orange and apple juices and water. Santa Claus will visit to hear firsthand what children would like for Christmas. Tickets can be purchased at the door. Adults are $15, children $10 with those under age 5 free. Credit cards accepted. For further information, engine4fundraiser@gmail.com.
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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Thursday, Dec. 9
Elementary School is located at 2201 Devon St., in East Meadow.
Chess club
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Go to the East Meadow Public Library to join the chess club starting at 1 p.m. Meetings are in the lower level conference room at the library.
East Meadow Kiwanis Club toy drive
EMPL jazz series Join the East Meadow Public Library at 7 p.m. in the community room for the Mark and Josephine D’Antonio jazz series featuring NyMBVS 5 (pronounced Nimbus). NyMBVS 5 is made up of five conceptually unique Long Island musicians who find joy in creating and playing original music. To register visit www.eastmeadow.info
Join the East Meadow Kiwanis Club in helping others celebrate this holiday season with their secret snowflake toy drive from Dec. 1 through 15. Donations for new, unwrapped toys will be accepted at multiple donation sites across East Meadow, including 7-Eleven, Coldwell Banker American Homes, Club Pilates and I Heart Hearing. Donation pick-ups are available as well. Monetary donations and gift cards are accepted and appreciated. For any questions call or text Jennifer Reinhardt at (516) 351-9891.
Friday, Dec. 10 CASA holiday lighting The Community Association of Stewart Avenue is having their tree lighting at 4 p.m. next to Carvel on Carman Ave., in Salisbury. Santa will be stopping by.
Saturday, Dec. 11
Navy-Army watch party There will a Navy-Army football game watch party at the East Meadow American Legion Post 1082 at 294 Bellmore Rd., in East Meadow. Game time is 3 p.m. but everyone is welcome to show up at 2 p.m. The event is open to the public. There will be food, drinks, games, a football pool and more. After the game there will be a tree lighting festivity starting at 6 p.m. Santa will be stopping by.
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Tuesday, Dec. 14 Tai Chi Enjoy virtual tai chi from the East Meadow Public Library at 11 a.m.. To register visit www.eastmeadow.info. The Zoom link will be sent the morning of the event.
Wednesday, Dec. 15 Game day Join the East Meadow Public Library for game day starting at 11:30 a.m.. There will be tables set up in the makers space downstairs.
Thursday, Dec. 16
Bernard King signing Bernard King will be signing memorabilia at Lucky’s Sports Cards and Memorabilia, 1854 Front St., in East Meadow from 2 to 3 p.m. Items can also be sent in to be signed or dropped off. For further info or to buy tickets visit http://www.luckysportscards.com/ upcoming-signings.html
Kids in grades 6 through 12 can join the East Meadow Public Library to paint a festive plate at 7 p.m. The event will be in the young adult room. To register visit www.eastmeadow.info.
Chess club rabilia at Lucky’s Sports Cards and Memorabilia at 1854 Front St., in East Meadow from 2 to 3 p.m. Items can also be sent in to be signed or dropped off. For further info or to buy tickets visit http://www.luckysportscards.com/ upcoming-signings.html
Christmas caroling
Sunday, Dec. 12
Toast your hero
Breakfast with Santa East Meadow Fire Department Engine Company 4 in Salisbury will be hosting a breakfast with Santa from 9 a.m. to noon. Enjoy pancakes, bacon, sausage and drinks. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for kids. 5 and under are free. Tickets can be purchased at the door. EMFD Station 4 is located at 4 Bob Reed Ln., Westbury.
There will be outdoor Christmas caroling and festive treats at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in East Meadow from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. For more info email htocem@gmail.com. Holy Trinity is located at 369 Green Ave., in East Meadow.
Blue Point Brewing Company is having a toast your hero event at the Northwell Health Ice Center at Eisenhower Park starting at 7 p.m. Watch the Blue Point Bastards face off against the Long Island Warriors for this charity hockey games. A portion of all ticket sales will benefit both Project9Line and the LI Warriors, two 501c3 organizations providing widespread support to Veterans. Must be 21 and up to purchase tickets and go to this event. For tickets
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Sunday divine liturgy The Divine Liturgy is celebrated every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church at 369 Green Ave., in East Meadow. Those interested in the church’s ancient traditions and liturgical life welcome. Coffee hour follows. For further info email htocem@gmail.com.
Monday, Dec. 13 McVey Mighty Market East Meadow Kiwanis is collecting food at the McVey Mighty Market from 9 to 11 a.m. Food donations to the Mighty Market go to those in need. McVey
Go to the East Meadow Public Library for chess club starting at 1 p.m. Chess club meetings are in the lower level.
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There will be a psychic night dinner at Borrelli’s in East Meadow on Dec. 21 from 6 to 9 p.m. Garden Social will be having a brunch with Santa on Dec. 21 and 22. Check out what Nieves Dance Studio has to offer at https://www.nievesdancestudio.com. The Northwell Health Ice Rink is open for public skating. Check out painting at Pinot’s Palette at https://www.pinotspalette.com/eastmeadow/events.
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A HEMPSTEAD TOWN Clerk Kate Murray, left, Legislator Tom McKevitt, Al Debatto, Nikolaos Argyris and his daughter, Michelle Debatto and Dawn Connolly stopped by at the food drive at Grand Stage Diner on Nov. 22.
Thanksgiving food drive at the diner Hempstead Town Clerk Kate Murray greeted Nikolaos Argyris, one of the owners of Grand Stage Diner in East Meadow and friends Al and Michelle Debatto, Dawn Connolly and others as they pre-
pared supplies to feed more than 700 local families in need, as well as first responders and health care workers, during Thanksgiving.
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BROOKE CASTLE, 10, wanted to help children in the pediatric unit of NUMC.
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Brooke Castle, 10, from East Meadow, wanted to give back this holiday season by helping children in the NUMC Pediatric Unit. She got to work back in August running a lemonade stand. She ended up raising $240. But Brooke held onto the money until closer to the holidays planning to buy presents for hospitalized children so they would feel extra special when it is rough to be a patient in the
hosptial. When she found out that the East Meadow PTA Council was collecting items for NUMC’s Pediatric Unit she saw it as an opportunity to make a difference. Brooke and her mother, Jennifer, went shopping and were able to contribute 20 blankets, 20 coloring books, 20 packs of crayons, and 27 infant/toddler toys to the PTA’s donation for NUMC.
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Santa Claus seen in East Meadow at Borrelli’s CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE but Long Island doesn’t have one too close.” Vardakis brought her daughters, Holly, 8, Sophia, 6, and Olivia, 2 1/2, to the breakfast. Her husband, Andrew, has been in the Coast Guard for 10 years. IOOF also held a Santa visit at Nassau University Medical Center, bringing gift cards. And Santa visited Mitchel Manor, delivering food and gifts to children when the government shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. Because of the pandemic, Cafiso said, life has not the same for military families, and the organization is there to help. “Frank Borrelli is a very good friend of mine, and I asked him if we could do a Santa breakfast for the kids at Mitchel Manor, and he said, ‘Great idea,’” Cafiso said. “I went to my lodge, and of course they agreed with it.” Children at the breakfast enjoyed bagels from local bagel shops, munchkins from Dunkin’ Donuts and other treats from Borrelli’s. “I was saved by the Barstool Fund, and now it’s time to give back,” Borrelli said. “There are always military kids, and it was great to do something for them.” Borrelli said his restaurant avoided closure last December because David Portnoy of Barstool launched a fund to help restaurants stay afloat during the Covid-19 shutdown. After breakfast, Santa arrived to give
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SANTA WAVED GOODBYE to the children before heading back to the North Pole. each child an age appropriate gift. Vardakis, who met Cafiso when he brought supplies for military families to Mitchel Manor in 2019, helped get the word out about the breakfast. “A lot of these families, their husbands might be deployed or on duty,” she said, “so it’s nice to have something for the kids for the hol-
nice to be together.” Cafiso said he hopes to make the event an annual one. “I was talking to Frank [Borrelli], and I told him I want to make this an annual event, and he agreed,” Cafiso said. “. . . I’ll really plan in advance and maybe even invite others, like those who are less fortunate.”
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The Word according to Stephen By LAUREN LEV Sometimes you come upon an artist that you want to discuss and dissect but the work is so complex, it feels nearly impossible to deeply understand. It’s like learning to read Shakespeare, the process is slow and hesitant with an elementary comprehension and conversation at best, at least at first. That’s how I felt after reading the obituary of Stephen Sondheim, the composerlyricist, a man who changed the vision of musical theatre that appeared in the New York Times. It’s practically blasphemy to act as if I have any theatre chops to evaluate six decades of his achievements. I never had the chance to see much of his work on stage or in film. Yet I feel as if he is a part of me, a part of all of us – revering the spoken and sung word, changing the way we look at a story’s characters and situations. There is an enormous effort these days to create mountains of content — so many media sources, so many apps, so many channels that need to be fed. This dilution is hardly noble, especially when our standards and expectations seem diminished when applied to this new material. Yet with Sondheim, every word is precious, passionate, in sync with a personality within the story. So, what would art be without Stephen Sondheim? What would Broadway look like? What would be meaningful and what would move the next generation past that boundary? What does “meaningful” mean
anyway? These are all hypotheticals because Sondheim did grace the earth, accounting for over 15 Broadway shows with his music and lyrics or lyrics alone: words that were bitter, simple, whimsical, conflicted, anguished, even filled with yearning as defined by the characters who sang them, now reprinted by the New York Times. In the end, it’s words written about a master of words. Lauded by the theatre community and the millions he served. Talent never meant to meet some arbitrary expectation but one way or another always exceeded it. His is a legacy of work. And an ironic reminder of his capabilities, wrapped up in the lyrics of “Putting it Together” from “Sunday in the Park with George,” by Stephen Sondheim. “...Bit by bit Putting it together Piece by piece Only way to make a work of art Every moment makes a contribution Every little detail plays a part Having just a vision’s no solution Everything depends on execution Putting it together That’s what counts...” A contributing writer to the Herald since 2012, Lauren Lev is an East Meadow resident and a direct marketing/advertising executive who teaches marketing communications courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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In 1984, social worker Pat Shea was working to find housing for a young homeless woman through the Wantagh-based Birthright of Nassau/Suffolk, which helped women facing unplanned or crisis pregnancies. Though the woman had four siblings, she knew none of them, having been placed in a separate foster care facility. Around the time she was aging out of foster care, she became pregnant, and struggled to find housing. “There were no foster homes for mothers with babies,” Shea, who lived in Massapequa at the time, explained. “The mother could go into one foster home and the child would go to another, due to licensing.” The woman managed to find a place for her and her baby to stay, but the conditions were deplorable, Shea said: The home was filthy, there was no hot water, and nine men lived there with her, most of whom had been discharged from mental institutions or were drug addicts or alcoholics. “It was the worst situation I have ever seen,” Shea recalled. “I didn’t believe in Nassau County we could have such horrible conditions for a mother and baby to live in.” She invited the woman to stay in her Massapequa home, but she refused. A few weeks later, the woman asked Shea to watch her child when she went to the doctor. Shea agreed. “She brought him over and she never came back,” Shea said. “I never saw her again. She abandoned her baby because she had no place to live that was decent.” Though the situation was difficult, it was the beginning of Shea’s journey to provide housing and support services to young mothers and their babies — a major goal of the Wantagh-based nonprofit Mommas House. Shea, her brother, John Connell, volunteers for Birthright of Nassau/Suffolk and friends and family established the first MOMMAS House in Wantagh in 1986. The only program of its kind in the metropolitan area, it provided a safe place for preg-
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NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION MOMMAS House hosted its annual gala at the Mansion at Oyster Bay on Nov. 11. nant women and young mothers, ages 18 to 24, and their babies. “It grew from that,” She said. “The need existed.” Last week, the organization celebrated its 35th anniversary — and recently also celebrated assisting more than 1,000 mothers and babies across Nassau County. The group offers transitional housing, emergency shelter and permanent-housing services. It has four Mother-Child Transitional Housing Residences, one in Glen Cove, one in Jericho and two in Hempstead, and permanent-housing services in a two-family home in East Massapequa. MOMMAS House hosted its Annual Gala at the Mansion at Oyster Bay on Nov. 11. This year, the organization honored Robert Zabbia, of Zabbia Insurance Agency, who could not be recognized last year due to the pandemic. Zabbia, who was unable to attend the gala because of a death in his family, has provided financial assistance to the organization over the years. He sent a representative to accept a citation on his behalf, presented by State Assemblyman Michael Durso, of Massapequa Park. Since the gala took place on Veterans
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Perez said she appreciated the strict schedule that mothers kept at MOMMAS House. “The curfew was 5 p.m.,” she recounted. “We had to use a pay phone inside the house.” She said she was grateful to know Shea. “To know Pat Shea is to know MOMMAS House,” Perez said. “She’s an incredible mentor. She’s honest, and she has the biggest heart.” Shea said the program has also benefited her five children, the late Dillon Shea, Keara Bloom, Meaghan Shea, Siobhan Anderson and the youngest, Deirdre Trumpy, who will become Mommas House’s executive director next year. “I thought to myself, ‘If God was going to choose someone to do this, I don’t know how he picked me,’ because you can’t even see the top of my desk,” Shea joked. “He took a risk here, but he sent me help. I’m surrounded by good people all the time.” While the nonprofit has changed locations and expanded in numerous ways, Shea said, the goal has remained the same: to help mothers and babies in need. “We’re a focal point — where even if they can’t come into MOMMAS house, we can help them through other channels and programs,” she said. “It’s been a great experience. I’ve been so blessed.”
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--------------------------------THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 2:00 P.M. 770/21. EAST MEADOW Argelis Sanchez, Variance, front yard average setback, construct 2nd story addition attached to dwelling., N/s Byrd Dr., 100’ W/o Devon St., a/k/a 1907 Byrd Dr. 772/21. LEVITTOWN Karlos Hernandez, Variances, front yard average setback, side yards aggregate, maintain 2nd story addition attached to dwelling., E/s Cove La., 77’ N/o Beaver La., a/k/a 6 Cove La.
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OBITUARY Francis M. Clarke Francis M. Clarke, 90, of East Meadow, N.Y. died on Dec. 1. Beloved husband of A l i c e ; l ov i n g f at h e r o f C h a rl e s (Monique), Richard (Laura), Alison Iglesias (Lou), and the later Frank. Cherished grandfather of Devin (Lauren), Frank (Chelsea), Kelly, Griffin, Christopher, Ethan, Brooke and Isabella. Adored brother of Anne and his predeceased siblings, Jack and Patricia. Proud U.S. Navy Korean War Veteran. Dedicated his life to the FDNY for 36 years, rising to the rank of deputy chief and retiring as the 14th Division Commander.
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A. Your question is asked every day. Even officials, who would answer that you’re absolutely doing the right thing to get plans and permits, answer that they’re just doing their job, possibly intimating that they might agree with you. Truthfully, you are doing the right thing. Not just because of the paperwork, stages of review — includonte eeper ing a zoning variance — but because raising your property means high fences viewed from the bottom of the walls. Neighbors have complained, saying they’re looking up at the “Wall of China,” and municipalities reacted. Safety is why the process is worthwhile. A stacked block wall, done incorrectly, can give way, with costly — or deadly — consequences. I was once called to look at a predicament where someone using no formulas, no instructions (apparently) and no common sense built a chest-high wall, which began to drift and lean in the first rainstorm. It violated the laws of nature in that it did not have the ability to resist the hidden or plain-sight conditions. Yes, there are formulas, charts and tables developed for holding back land masses, just as there are formulas for designing columns and beams. In my experience, the less you know, the happier you are at the beginning of the process. The more you learn from what went wrong, especially after it goes terribly wrong, the worse off you’ll be. Well, it wasn’t even the leaning wall that was the biggest part of the problem. It was the fact that a few feet from the not-so-correctly built wall was a swimming pool made of gunnite. Gunnite is concrete that has been sprayed in layers onto a heavy mesh of woven reinforcing rods. It’s one of the strongest types of construction, so strong that it was used to form the hulls of PT boats in World War II to resist torpedoes. So when the landscaped wall drifted and leaned, the strongest kind of pool built began to twist like a pretzel. It wasn’t the wall that was the biggest problem; it was how to stabilize and stop the twisty pool from breaking apart. Hang in there. Fences and walls, not permits, are the bigger problem to solve, safely. Good luck!
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n the wake of his announcement that he is entering the Democratic primary for governor, U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi faces a pretty daunting obstacle: New York City Democrats. The city’s Democratic voter base, and the political bosses who select their primary candidates, mock anyone beyond the five boroughs. They know their statewide candidates will need Long Island votes in the general election, but that doesn’t mean they want a Long Islander leading the ticket. Think RONALD J. of neighboring as deadly ROSENBERG Gotham kryptonite that destroys the aspirations of every suburban Democrat who wants a shot at running statewide. We already know the roster of Long Island politicians whose statewide campaigns died at the Queens line. Kathleen Rice and Steve Levy come immediately to mind, but there are others. In the 1960s, the highly respected Nassau Coun-
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ty Executive Eugene Nickerson couldn’t win the Democratic primary for Senate, despite the backing of none other than Robert F. Kennedy. Huntington Town Supervisor Jerome Ambro took on Basil Paterson for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 1970. Ambro promptly lost that contest to Patterson. And Tom Suozzi knows what it’s like to run and lose a statewide primary race. In 2006, he ran against Eliot Spitzer for the Democratic nomination for governor. He quickly lost to the Manhattan-based Spitzer (although Spitzer may still wonder what his life might have been like had he lost and then quietly repaired to the family business of making millions in real estate). So why is it that Suozzi believes that this time is the charm? For starters, the Democratic Party is unrecognizable. There are more left-leaning city Democratic power players than Politburo members in Red Square on May Day. And that’s the least of it. Consider a New York Post report that
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revealed how a Bronx-based congressman, Jamaal Bowman, “is facing the fury of the Democratic Socialists of America, who have accused him of betrayal for visiting Israel and meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.” That action alone reveals that Suozzi’s Democratic Party has a cancer eating away at its soul. Suozzi’s primary strategy is to position himself as a centrist in a race that will compel Democrats to choose among the progressive, the progressive lite and the still to be politically defined gubernatorial incumbent. Suozzi will have the advantage of fundraising among deep-pocketed New York City business leaders who have the right to fear a state lurching left. They have been desperately looking for a “common-sense” Democrat whom they can support, so it is no accident that the phrase “common-sense candidate” is now Suozzi’s adopted slogan. While Suozzi and his primary competitors seek to position themselves for a win, they need to recognize that a primary victory is not an anointment to be gov-
ew York City has often proved poisonous for suburban Democrats.
ernor. As this past Election Day revealed, there is a quiet but seething anger among voters who rightly view the progressive/socialist agenda, such as “bail reform,” as destructive to their quality of life and core values. In a state reputed to be deeply blue, there is every reason to believe that a Republican gubernatorial candidate could win by tapping into the anger, and not a little bit of fear of where New York might be heading. Much the way the Red Wave on Election Night 2021 sent a strong message that voters are not going to follow a progressive manifesto, Republican Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin could easily upset the pundits and assume office as the next governor of New York. If so, it would be nothing less than ironic if those Long Island Democrats who aspired to be governor but were blocked by New York City progressives got to attend the gubernatorial inauguration of a fellow Long Islander who ran on the Republican line. Ronald J. Rosenberg has been an attorney for 42 years, concentrating in commercial litigation and transactions, and real estate, municipal, zoning and land use law. He founded the Garden City law firm Rosenberg Calica & Birney in 1999.
Hoping for the gift of life in this season of giving
e was 49 years old in March, and he hopes to celebrate his 50th birthday next year. Anyone would wish the same, but Scott Englander, a Woodmere resident, faces an uncertain future. According to his mother, Arlene, after a catastrophic bacterial infection left him in a coma more than six years ago, Scott suffered both heart and kidney failure. His heart stabilized, but his kidney function continued to decline until he was forced to begin RANDI regular dialysis KREISS recently. He is being treated at the Julia and Israel Waldbaum Davida Dialysis facility in Great Neck, where he undergoes dialysis three times a week, for four and a half hours at a time. It is a grueling routine that leaves him exhausted. The only way off dialysis, however, is to get a kidney transplant. The family is hopes for a living donor, someone who finds it within him or herself to promise Scott another birthday, and another one after that. We have all read stories of selfless individuals who know they can live normally with one
kidney and are willing to come forward in an exceptional act of generosity. If you or someone you know would like more information about this process, please email scottneedsakidney@ gmail.com. I have known Arlene and Richard Englander for more than 50 years. We hadn’t connected in a long time when Arlene reached out, hoping to increase Scott’s chances of finding a kidney donor. They had already tried Zoom megacalls and bulk mailings and emails. Maybe, they thought, someone will read this and consider giving this gift of life. Perhaps the word will pass through our communities and someone will step forward. For the recipient, according to the National Kidney Transplant Foundation, “Your health and energy should improve. In fact, a successful kidney transplant may allow you to live the kind of life you were living before you got kidney disease. Studies show that people with kidney transplants live longer than those who remain on dialysis.” Unrelated individuals who make a good match may be able to donate one of their kidneys, in a living transplant. If a donor and recipient are incompatible,
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there are “kidney swaps,” in which donors can provide kidneys to compatible recipients in exchange for a compatible donation to their intended recipient. Advances in kidney transplant have made it possible to do the surgeries laparoscopically, which leads to much shorter recovery times. Potential donors are carefully screened, and supported physically and emotionally. According to the Kidney Project at the University of California, San Francisco, some 100,000 patients in the United States are on the kidney transplant list, and the need for donor kidneys is rising 8 percent per year. The wait times for an organ vary from state to state. Fortunately, most insurance covers the expenses for both transplant donors and recipients. Many charitable groups offer travel and work compensation for donors. It is, of course, illegal to buy or sell human organs or tissue in the U.S. According to the Mayo Clinic, the hospital stay for most kidney donors is one or two days. Its website states, “After kidney donation, most people are able to return to normal daily activities after two to four weeks. You may be advised to avoid contact sports or other strenuous activities that may cause kidney dam-
local man who’d like to see his children grow up is in need of a new kidney.
age.” In the U.S., more than 6,000 livingorgan donations are completed each year. Living-kidney donation is the most common type of living-donor transplant. People can donate one of their two kidneys, and the remaining kidney is able to perform the necessary functions. For the recipient, receiving a kidney from a living donor is successful more than 98 percent of the time, according to the Mayo Clinic. If the kidney comes from a deceased donor, the success rate is 93 percent. Ongoing treatment tethered to dialysis is a difficult alternative. Scott Englander and his family are hoping for a living donor. He would like to go back to his work as a chiropractor and his life with his family. His roots in the community run deep: He went to the Number Six School, Lawrence Middle School, Lawrence High School, SUNY Albany and Life University in Georgia. Scott has been on the transplant list at the Northwell Health Transplant Center for two and a half years, his mother says. She says the expectation is a wait of some five to eight years to get a deceased person’s kidney. A living donor could come forward at any time. In a note to me this week, Scott said that he hopes for a kidney so that he may live long enough to see his children grow up. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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Now, not later, is time to push for SALT reform
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he Herald has editorialized a halfdozen times on Long Island’s desperate need to restore the federal income-tax deduction for state and local taxes, which the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, passed under President Donald Trump, limited to $10,000, costing many middle-class families here thousands of dollars annually. Now, it appears, we are on the brink of overturning the measure. Sustained political pressure is needed to see the elimination of the $10,000 SALT cap through to the finish line. That’s why we are encouraging readers to write to U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both Democrats, to ensure that the proposal passes in the Senate when it is brought up for an upcoming vote. There is a false impression that the SALT deduction affords an unfair tax advantage only to the rich, a refrain repeated by conservative pundits across the nation. For decades, however, the deduction provided vital federal tax relief to middle-class families on Long Island and many other parts of the country. Many conservatives argue that any family earning above $100,000 per year is affluent, even rich. And, they say, most of the people taking the SALT deduction — 98 percent — have a household income above that figure, with 80 percent earning between $100,000 and $200,000 and 18 percent above $200,000. Meanwhile, the average family income nationwide is $67,000 a year, according to census data. That argument, however, does not account for regional cost differences — in
LETTERS Ida relief deadline extended to January To the Editor: The deadline for applications for the Hurricane Ida Relief Fund will be extended until Jan. 4 to provide aid to excluded survivors of the storm and flooding caused by its remnants. New Yorkers who are ineligible to receive storm recovery help through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Individual Assistance Program or other means can apply for funding that is being distributed through an established network of community organizations. In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, my office has been fully committed to helping all New Yorkers recover from this devastating storm. With this extension to apply for resources, New Yorkers who are ineligible for FEMA relief and community organizations on the ground can now gather all the necessary information to apply for the funds that they need to rebuild.
particular, high property taxes in places like Long Island. It focuses only on income. Long Island is one of the most expensive places to live in the country. The median household income here, $116,000, would buy a whole lot in a state like Mississippi, where the median household income is about $42,000; or New Mexico, where it’s $46,300; or Idaho, where it’s $48,600. On Long Island, however, $116,000 is not rich. It’s middle class. So, while the SALT deduction has undoubtedly helped the wealthy, it has aided the middle class in high-cost regions like ours, and that is why it must be restored. The House of Representatives, led by Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from Glen Cove, recently passed SALT reform as part of the $2 trillion Build Back Better bill. Bravo! The legislation, if passed by the Senate, would smartly cap the deduction at $80,000, allowing middle-class families in states like New York and California to take advantage of the federal deduction, but still limiting it to prevent the truly wealthy from benefiting disproportionately. According to Suozzi, passage of SALT reform in the Senate would bring immediate tax relief to some 3.4 million New York taxpayers, including nearly 367,000 in Nassau alone. That would return dollars to our local economy, where they belong. Since enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act four years ago, New York has paid $12 billion more in federal taxes — money that has gone to states like Kentucky, home to Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell, a Republican who led the charge alongside Trump to pass the act. The recent reform package passed in the House would raise the SALT deduction cap for nine years, through 2030. That seems fair. New Yorkers would have time to plan for its sunset. The legislation passed by Trump, on the other hand, caught many flatfooted, requiring desperate measures of them, including taking out loans just to pay their federal income taxes. The $80,000 cap would take effect on people’s 2021 federal tax bills, providing them nearly immediate relief — which would be vital, given the economic hardships that many households have been forced to endure because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Lest any U.S. senator believe that the desire to restore the SALT deduction is confined to states like New York and California, he or she need only look to recent comments by Tom Cochran, CEO and executive director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, to understand that the sentiment is shared by many elected leaders and taxpayers nationwide. “On behalf of the nation’s mayors,” Cochran said, “I want to commend Congressman Suozzi for his hard work on this issue. He never stopped fighting to restore the state and local taxes [deduction] for middle-income families in all states.” Indeed. We mustn’t believe for a second, however, that the measure will pass in the Senate until it has. That is why we need everyone’s voice speaking out on this critical issue.
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n the wake of Democrats’ November election debacle, they are looking for who or what to blame. The initial targets are critical race theory, “wokeness,” and congressional progressives known as “the Squad,” in particular Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. If Democrats accept the narrative that swing voters rejected “extremism,” they are doomed to lose big in 2022 and 2024. Leading Republicans have not shied away from extremism. In fact, they have embraced it. When Arizona Rep. Paul ALAN Gosar tweeted animated videos SINGER showing him killing Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden with a sword, Republicans in Congress overwhelmingly voted against censuring him. They blame Biden for the recent spike in Covid-19 cases, while they actively campaign against mandatory vaccination and masking. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is promoting right-wing “replacement theories” that were behind the 2017 neoNazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. On Fox News, Gingrich accused leftists of trying to drown out “classic Americans” and replace them with people who know nothing of the country’s history and traditions because they want to “get rid of the rest of us.” Fox’s Tucker Carlson repeated Gingrich’s claims, accusing Democrats of
trying to “change the racial mix of the country” so they can “reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here.” Meanwhile, the Republican rank-andfile have disrupted local school board meetings, denouncing school curricula, library books and efforts to combat the pandemic. The New York Times reported a “disturbing spike in threats against school board officials” and “hundreds of intimidating messages to election officials in at least a dozen states.” The Democrats lost this year, however, because of their failure to articulate a clear agenda that would have provided an alternative narrative to GOP talking points; internal bickering that undermined legislative initiatives and made them appear incompetent; and deep-seated white racism that allowed the argument that critical race theory is invading our schools to take hold. In Kenosha, Wis., a largely white jury acquitted a 17-year-old white man who brought an assault rifle to a Black Lives Matter rally and killed two of the protesters because he thought he was defending himself from attack by his unarmed victims. That decision had nothing to do with critical race theory or leftwing “wokeness” and everything to do with white fear of Blacks. It was celebrated by white vigilante groups as justification for their behavior, and Kyle Rittenhouse was proclaimed a Second Amendment hero by
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hey lost this year because of their failure to articulate a clear agenda.
LETTERS The extension bolsters the state’s commitment to support nonprofit organizations in a joint effort to distribute assistance to those who need to apply for it. As of Nov. 30, more than 1,800 people had reached out about this program, and of these initial contacts, 403 households had submitted applications, and 507 households had qualified for FEMA funds and have since been referred there. To date, 54 households have received $228,376. An additional 31 households have approved applications and are pending payment. In Nassau County, the contact point is the Economic Opportunity Commission, at 134 Jackson St. in Hempstead.
and I was honored to do so. The message from Rabbi Michael Cohen, of Central Synagogue, the Rev. Scott Ressman, of the United Church of Rockville Centre, Mayor Francis X. Murray and the organizers was clear: Hate has no home here — not now, not ever! One lesson of the 20th century is that the political ideology of the Proud Boys ends in the concentration camp. I was thus disheartened not to see the Diocese of Rockville Centre bishop or more representatives of Christian churches lend their voices to the demonstration. I consider this a serious abdication of their moral duty.
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STANISLAO PUGLIESE, PH.D. Queensboro Unico distinguished professor, Hofstra University
A moral obligation to speak out To the Editor: As a historian of fascism, I felt morally obliged to take part in the demonstration at Central Synagogue-Beth Emeth in Rockville Centre in response to the recent Proud Boys march through the village,
conservative politicians and right-wing news outlets. On CNN, the recently fired Chris Cuomo interviewed comedian and commentator Bill Maher about a supposed leftwing peril threatening the U.S., feeding him a series of softball questions. After acknowledging that “I’m not in schools” and “I have no interaction with children,” Maher said he had heard from people across the country that “kids are sometimes separated into groups, oppressor and oppressed” and are being taught that “racism is the essence of America.” He derided this practice as “just silly; it’s just virtue-signaling,” and accused people advocating for curriculum revision of being “afraid to acknowledge progress,” a psychological disorder he labeled “progressophobia.” I kept waiting for Cuomo to ask Maher for an example — any example — to support his claims, but Cuomo never did, and Maher never felt compelled to offer any evidence. On his HBO show, Maher promotes a group of contrarians who want to start their own college, where they will be free to present offensive ideas and dismiss objections without having to provide supporting evidence or answer to anyone. Cuomo never asked Maher about that, either. The more serious problems for Democrats and progressives worldwide are new surges of the coronavirus that have led to closings, supply-chain disruptions and
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inflation spikes, as well as counterattacks on climate-change initiatives. In Europe, protests against newly imposed Covid-19 restrictions turned into riots in Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands, and in Germany they boosted the right-wing vote. This has nothing to do with teaching critical race theory in American schools and everything to do with international right-wing fear-mongering and mobilization. The other real problem is denial of the impending climate catastrophe, and efforts to block restrictions on the production and use of fossil fuels. Global leaders sang Kumbaya after the Glasgow Climate Change Conference and then went home, where they will implement inadequate or phantom measures. Wealthy GOP and fossil-fuel industry donors in the U.S. are pouring money into the re-election campaign accounts of nominally Democratic senators Joe Manchin, of West Virginia, and Kyrsten Sinema, of Arizona, to influence them to stand firm against cleanenergy initiatives. Again, this has nothing to do with “wokeness” or the fictional claim that children are being indoctrinated into critical race theory in American schools. Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on Twitter, @AlanJSinger1.
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