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Schools focus on students’ well-being Social, emotional learning programs rolled out across Franklin Square schools By RoBERt tRAVERso rtraverso@liherald.com
Courtesy Franklin Square Union Free School District
DistRiCt soCiAl woRkER Rosie Carino focused on learning about feelings with first-grade students at Washington Street School.
The social and emotional well-being of Franklin Square students has become a major focus in the community’s three elementary schools this year. The Franklin Square Union Free School District “has implemented new social and emotional learning (SEL) programs and activities to further enhance the well-being of its students at John Street School, Polk Street School and Washington Street School,” a statement released by the district explained. The transition from in-person to virtual learning as a result of the coronavirus pandemic had a deleterious effect on the
mental health and social and emotional state of students nationwide, according to a number of surveys conducted since the pandemic began two years ago. According to one survey, by a nonprofit called Active Minds, 20 percent of college students said their mental health had declined. Late last year, the Elmont Union Free School District added three new school counselors for the 2021-22 school year. “Additional counselors were brought in to ensure the social-emotional well-being of both students and staff,” the school district said in a statement for a previous Herald story. Franklin Square school social workers Continued on page 10
New state senate map brings Elmont together in 7th S.D. By RoBERt tRAVERso rtraverso@liherald.com
Under the new State Senate map approved by both houses of the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul earlier this month, Elmont will no longer be split between Senate Districts 7 and 9, but will fall almost entirely within District 7. Mimi Pierre-Johnson, a community activist from Elmont, said this was a key change that she and others lobbied for through testimony before the state Independent Redistricting Commission. “We got 97 percent of what we wanted,” PierreJohnson said. She added, howev-
er, that, in her view, the new map still wasn’t perfect, because it left a few areas of Elmont — near the Southern State Parkway and Linden Boulevard — in the 9th District. The new map, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2023, was created after the 2020 census. The statewide “blue wave” of Democratic victories in the 2018 midterm election cycle ensured that Democrats would be in charge of redistricting, which takes place every 10 years, following the census. To Pierre-Johnson, keeping Elmont constituents together in one district makes more sense
pragmatically, because it allows residents to garner political support more effectively for the funding of schools, public libraries and other local institutions. “From an activist point of view … it’s harder to get two elected officials together, agree and vote on the issues we fight on,” she said. “It’s beneficial to the constituents to keep them together.” One such issue, according to Pierre-Johnson, is the children who live close to North Valley Stream, near Linden Boulevard, who attend Elmont Memorial High School. Providing transportation for those students, she said, is easier with most of
Elmont contained within a single Senate district. Pier re-Johnson said she believed politicians prioritize dividing up constituents in ways beneficial to them — a practice known as gerrymandering — over providing services to them. “People feel disenfranchised by congressional lines,” State Assemblywoman Michaelle
Solages, a Democrat from Elmont, said in a previous Herald story. The Assembly has been controlled by Democrats for decades, and Solages’s district remained untouched by the new map. “We should have nice, clean districts that people don’t need a ruler or rubric for to see how the lines have been drawn,” said Continued on page 5
Hockey skills of Elmont students honed by Islanders Elmont students who participate in the Gotham Avenue School after-school program run by Gateway Youth Outreach, a community-focused organization that organizes programs for the youth of Elmont, participated on Feb. 7 in a “floor ball” instructional session held by representatives of the New York Islanders. The hour-long session taught students the game of floor ball, which is similar to hockey except that it is played in a gymnasium rather than on ice and with a ball rather than a puck. Rules for the game are similar to rules for hockey, but “instead of skating children run around the gym to secure the ball and score goals,” GYO explained in an email. “The children enjoyed learning about hockey, a new sport for many of them,” the organiza-
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The New York Islanders provided an hour-long ‘floor ball’ lesson to Elmont students who participate in Gateway Youth Outreach’s after-school program at Gotham Avenue School on Feb. 7.
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Valedictorians, salutatorians honored by Sewanhaka district
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Class of 2022 valedictorians and salutatorians from all five Sewanhaka Central High School District schools were honored at a meeting of the district’s board of education on Feb. 15. After their building principal or assistant principal introduced the students, each student’s academic and personal accomplishments were listed. Certificates of recognition were also awarded to students for their accomplishment. Ten students from five high schools were honored: From Elmont Memorial High School, valedictorian Vivian Zhu and salutatorian Malik Hyman; from Floral Park Memorial High School, valedictorian Gagandeep Kaur and salutatorian Meaghan Kilcarr; from H. Frank Carey High School in Franklin Square, valedictorian Devin Casano (who was not in attendance) and salutatorian Emily Lavin; from New Hyde Park Memorial High School, valedictorian Laurence Lai and salutatorian Emma Ouyang; from Sewanhaka High School, valedictorian Farhaan Khan and salutatorian Kira Sethi. “Congratulations to all our valedictorians and salutatorians on their achievements,” Superintendent of Schools Dr. James Grossane said at the ceremony. “We wish them all the best as they continue their studies at the university level, and we’re excited for what the future will bring for them and the successes they will bring back to our community,” Grossane added.
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Elmont mEmorial HigH School Principal Kevin Dougherty, left, valedictorian Vivian Zhu, Board of Education Trustee Dr. Tameka Battle-Burkett and Board President Michael Jaime.
SEwanHaka HigH ScHool Principal Nichole Allen, left, valedictorian Farhaan Khan, Board of Education Trustee Dr. Tameka Battle-Burkett and Board President Michael Jaime.
H. Frank carEy High School Principal Christopher Fiore, left, salutatorian Emily Lavin and Board of Education Vice President William Leder.
SEwanHaka HigH ScHool salutatorian Kira Sethi
Elmont mEmorial High School salutatorian Malik Hyman
GYO and Islanders team up for Elmont hockey lesson conTinued from paGe 2 tion added. After the lesson, each student was presented with a T-shirt, backpack and hockey stick featuring the Islander’s logo. “The New York Islanders have been tremendously giving of their time and resources to GYO,” the nonprofit wrote. GYO expressed gratitude to the Islanders for “their efforts to bring hockey to Elmont.” They also wondered, “Who knows? Maybe there is a future Islander on that gym floor.” The organization added, “The children certainly showed the potential for that to come true.” —Robert Traverso
GaTeway youTh ouTreach has worked in the past on hockey programs, and the organization thinks that hockey will rise in popularity among Elmont students. Photos courtesy New York Islanders
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No longer divided between two senators Solages, whose district was created in 2012, after the 2010 census, in the same process that split Elmont at the Senate level. “We want to make sure that the process is that the people are electing their officials,” she added, “not that elected officials are choosing their voters.” “If we didn’t fight and go before the redistricting committee and build a statewide coalition, what happened to Elmont 10 years ago would have happened again,” Pierre-Johnson said, referring to the separation of Districts 7 and 9 in 2012. She said she would now focus on the next step of the redistricting process, at the municipal level. “Now that the state is done, the next step is local,” she said, adding that Elmont is affected by the makeup of both the Nassau County Legislature and the government of the Town of Hempstead. Town government is particularly relevant to Elmont residents, PierreJohnson said, because the town controls parking issues at the UBS Arena. A major feature of the new state map is that Long Island’s nine State Senate districts no longer all have majorities of white residents. As a result of the redistricting, two districts will contain more minority voters than white voters. PierreJohnson said that is evidence that the demographics of the Island have changed, and its population is now more diverse. “The census proved that Long Island is
Courtesy New York State Senate Ronny Reyes/Herald file photo
mimi-PieRRe Johnson, a prominent Elmont community activist, said that although the new map has flaws, she is grateful that all of Elmont is now contained within District 7. changing,” she said. Indeed, the 2020 census found that over the past decade, Long Island’s minority population increased by nearly 290,000, while its white population decreased by nearly 200,000. Pierre-Johnson shot down what she described as tropes about Black and Latino Americans “destroying” Long Island. “If we have fair maps, everyone wins,” she said, adding that just because an area is predominantly “Black or Brown” doesn’t mean that only people of color should live there.
the old state Senate district map split Elmont between District 7, represented by Sen. Anna Kaplan, and District 9, represented by Sen. Todd Kaminsky. “It should be a good diverse district,” she said, adding that this is what she has fought for, and what the new map represents. “If everyone lives together, we all could win,” Pierre-Johnson said. Republicans have voiced their criticism of the new district map, accusing Democrats of using their majority in the State Legislature to carve up blocs of voters into reliable districts in which they will be re-elected each cycle. Democrats have countered that they are rolling back decades of similar gerrymandering implemented by Republican majorities in the Legislature. Pierre-Johnson agreed with the latter sentiment, saying that past maps have divided communities in half for the
advantage of political incumbents. Her neighbor across the road, on Crystal Street, is in District 7, she said, while her own house is in District 9. While she conceded that both political parties gerrymander districts, she expressed hope for fair boundary drawing by both parties in the future. “The hope is that whichever party comes to power next, they continue that trend, so we can have fair maps that reflect the community,” Pierre-Johnson said, “rather than maps that hold politicians in office.”
Redistricting 101 ■ At the direction of the U.S. Constitution, a nationwide census is conducted every 10 years, and census data is used to redraw electoral district boundaries on the federal level (for the House of Representatives), the state level (for the Assembly and Senate in the New York State Legislature) and the local level. ■ Gerrymandering, named for Elbridge Gerry, a 19th-century Massachusetts governor accused of the practice, is a process by which electoral districts are drawn to the advantage of a particular political party.
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Presidential Trivia with Theresa Maritato
Elmont Public Library Board Meeting Join the Elmont Memorial Library for a library board meeting and 2022-2023 proposed budget workshop at 700 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont. The proposed budget workshop will begin at 6:30 p.m. (Members of the public may attend the workshop without participation.) The board will meet in executive session at 7 p.m., and the public session of the meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Take part in presidential trivia all day with the Elmont Memorial Library and Theresa Maritato. Register by emailing Theresa at theresaowens8@gmail.com by Friday, Feb. 25 with the subject line “ELMONT/PRESIDENTS”. All questions will be emailed to you on Saturday, Feb. 26 and you’ll have until 11:59 p.m. to play. Everyone who plays will be eligible to win a $25 Amazon gift card, regardless of score. Contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 x 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary. org to register.
Annual Scholarship Fundraiser: The Magic of Alexo Join the Elmont Memorial Library at 11 a.m. in the Elmont Library Theater for a performance titled “The Magic of Alexo.” Tickets are $8 each; tickets went on sale on Feb. 3 at the Library Circulation Desk but can also be purchased at the box office on the day of the show. All proceeds will help eligible local high school students. Contact (516) 354-5280 for more information.
In person: Project Hope Join Project Hope at the Franklin Square Public Library between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. at a table on the ground floor of the library where Project Hope will be providing helpful information. The organization has an emotional support helpline, educational materials, trusted referrals, and local provider agencies that are “all dedicated to helping you manage and cope with changes brought on by COVID-19… NY Project Hope Crisis Counselors understand what you are going through. Talking with them is free, confidential, and anonymous. Talk with someone who is trained, knowledgeable and never judges. Sometimes it’s helpful to talk with someone you don’t know.” Project Hope recommends looking at the articles on their website (to learn relaxation techniques or coping tips) if you are not able to speak in person. For more information, visit the library’s website, https://www.franklinsquarepl.org/.
Mt. Sinai Vaxmobile at F.S. Public Library Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital will be offering first, second and booster
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Learn about NY ‘patriotic’ history at local library
Pictured: A Bayville home that won the 2020 Patriotic Display Initiative hosted by the Town of Oyster Bay. Join Arthur and Susan Zuckerman on Friday, Feb. 25 at 12:30 p.m. in meeting room 2 at the Elmont Memorial Library for a President’s Day lecture on “Patriotic New York.”
doses of the Pfizer vaccine against Covid19 between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the meeting room at the library. Note that the hospital will not be able to vaccinate anyone who received a Moderna vaccine, as the hospital does not allow us to mix and match vaccines. You must make an appointment to receive a vaccine on Feb. 24 at this link: https://apps2.health.ny. gov/doh2/applinks/cdmspr/2/counties? OpID=D6FA26F22BF60122E0530A6C7C 161BBF.
Movie: “Luca” Join the Elmont Memorial Library for a showing of the animated Disney film “Luca” at 4 p.m. in meeting room 2. This film showing is for children of all ages up to grade 6 who attend along with an adult. The film is rated PG and runs for 1 hour and 35 minutes. No registration is required. For further information, contact the children’s department at (516) 3545280 X 207 or via email at childrenservices@elmontlibrary.org.
Friday, Feb. 25 Senior Chat Join Elmont Memorial Library for senior chat with seniors from the community every Friday morning in meeting room 1 at 10 a.m. Participate or listen to casual discussions on special interests, concerns, and other topics that happen to arise. To register, contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org.
Lecture: Patriotic New York with Arthur & Susan Zuckerman Join Arthur and Susan Zuckerman at 12:30 p.m. in meeting room 2 at the Elmont Memorial Library for a lecture on “Patriotic New York” that will trace the path of New York’s history from Dutch days to the present. The lecture will fea-
ture interesting tidbits about George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses Grant, Father Duffy, the Harlem Hellfighters, and many others. The stories of many immigrants who came to the U.S. through Ellis Island and their contributions to our country will be explored. Experience New York through its historical involvement in wars and listen to some of the inspirational music created here by such greats as George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, John Philip Sousa, Bruce Springsteen and more. Finally, the presentation will highlight many sites and monuments throughout NYC dedicated to historical Americans. Limited seating is available, and registration is required. Masks are required for all in-person programs, regardless of vaccination status. Contact adult reference at (516) 3545280 x 223 or via email at reference@ elmontlibrary.org to register.
Saturday, Feb. 26
Join Elmont Memorial Library and Mary Mazzone at 1 p.m. in meeting room 2 for a chair yoga class. Registration is required, and there is limited seating. Registration for Elmont Library cardholders begins two weeks before each program. Masks are required for all in-person programs, regardless of vaccination status. Contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 x 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org to register.
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F.S. residents Rodrigo Josue Mejia Villalta and Ashley Yuk-Ling Lau were married on Jan. 24. Elmont residents Rochelle, Gabriella & Miya Brown attended a TOH tax forum on Jan. 18. F.S. was home to the Franklin National Bank, once the 20th largest bank in the U.S. Elmont residents Jeffrey Espert and Sybil Duvalsaint were married on Jan. 13. In 1910, Belmont Racetrack hosted the first air race ever held in the United States.
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Schools emphasize kindness, bullying prevention continued from front Rosie Carino, who works at Washington Street, and Christina Luca, who works at Polk Street, were tasked with overseeing the new well-being initiatives. Both spend time at John Street as well. Working with school psychologists, Carino and Luca have created age-appropriate programs and in-classroom lessons that focus on topics such as bullying prevention and self-esteem development. Laura Horne, the chief program officer of Active Minds, stressed the need for schools to focus on students’ well-being in a statement on the nonprofit’s website. “The importance of regular, clear, compassionate communication regarding mental health resources and academic options,” Horne said, is vital. This is the case, she said, because while a growing share of high school and college students nationwide feel that their mental health has been affected by the pandemic and the transition to virtual learning, not many are aware of where to turn for help. “More than half of college students surveyed say that they would not know where to go if they or someone they knew needed professional mental health services right away,” Horne said. Franklin Square schools are offering a range of new initiatives. For example, on Social Emotional Wednesdays, the last Wednesday of each month at Washington
Courtesy Franklin Square Union Free School District
John Street School third-graders listened to a “Bully Proofing” presentation with Principal Thomas Riccobono, right, district social worker Christina Luca, center, and school psychologist Nicole Schmidt. Street, students are assigned social-emotional homework. The January assignment focused on gratitude and appreciation. Students at Washington Street also helped create a “kindness chain,” the district said. For this activity, students wrote “kind messages” on colored paper and linked them together to “symbolize a united school community.”
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Preventing bullying is also a major focus when it comes to students’ wellbeing. During Bullying Prevention Month at Polk Street, students from kindergarten to sixth grade collaborated on a “Positive Post-It Wall.” After reading books about bullying prevention, conflict resolution and kindness, students shared positive messages on Post-it Notes on the wall.
In November and December, the antibullying theme was cooperation. Each class created “cooperation quilts.” Polk Street students have also been participating in “Buddy Classes,” in which younger and older students team up on projects focusing on cooperation. At Washington Street, students ranging from kindergarten to second grade recently learned about “Buddy Benches.” Older students at the school took part in “Bully Proofing” presentations, learning how to identify and respond to bullying. At John Street, students have been involved in presentations that also focus on kindness, making good choices and showing respect. Fourth-grade students worked on a “bucket filler” and “bucket dipper” activity, in which the focus was on “acknowledging acts of kindness that would fill one’s bucket rather than take from it,” the district statement read. At all three Franklin Square schools, students can scan QR codes placed around the buildings to recognize teachers, administrators and staff who are exceptional when it comes to paying attention to student well-being — something known districtwide as the “Franklin Square Round of Applause.” “Both Carino and Luca,” the district social workers in charge of the new initiatives, “expressed their excitement for the future and building connections with the students and staff in Franklin Square,” the district statement read.
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Maps of the Modern World, a course of fered at Elmont Memorial High School, benefits Elmont students in two key ways, said teacher Frank Nuara, the social studies department Chairman. First, the course, which focuses on both the geography of each continent and how geography influences its geopolitics and political relationships with other continents, is required to be passed by first-year students hoping to enter a foreign service program. The course serves as an introduction to key geographical knowledge and a first step along the path to joining the foreign service. Nuara said the class has analyzed the basic geography and geopolitical realities of Africa, Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe and Russia. Second, the course offers students a glimpse into the level of work required in a college course. Offered through Georgetown University, the Maps of the Modern World course is taught alongside Nuara by a teaching assistant from the university. “I think it really gives them an authentic college experience,” said Elmont Memorial High School Principal Kevin Dougherty about the importance of offering this course at the high school. “This is not a high school teacher teaching a college-level course… this is a high school teacher facilitating a col-
lege course for students while they take between the content that was being the course with an actual college TA or taught and the experience, they felt like college professor, so it really familiariz- it was one of the best experiences they es the kids with what college is like,” ever had,” Nuara said. Nuara said seeing this success is his Dougherty stressed. The Elmont Memorial High course is favorite part of teaching the course. He said 15 students took the offered through the Educaclass during fall 2021, and tional National Equity Lab, all 15 students received a a nonprofit dedicated to grade of A in the class. connecting students to col“The success of my stulege-level courses, which dents is the greatest part of connects the high school to it,” Nuara said. Georgetown University In some cases, Nuara and helps ensure that stusaid the dual-focus of the dents succeed in collegecourse – on knowledge neclevel courses. essary for the foreign serNuara, the only teacher vice and the preparation of the course at the high for college-level work – has school, said Elmont stuled students to develop and dents have thoroughly FRank nuaRa take on new paths. enjoyed both the content of “I think it’s important the course and the experi- Chairperson, Teacher, because a lot of our stuence they have garnered Social Studies dents want to become docfrom taking it. “They’ve Department, Elmont tors, they want to become absolutely loved it, they lawyers – they don’t think enjoy the content, but I Memorial High School about foreign service,” he think what’s more imporsaid, stressing the impact tant is the confidence they the course can have on a felt about being successful student’s career path. in a true college environIndeed, after taking the course, two ment,” he said. The course is built around a college- of Nuara’s students applied to Georgelevel syllabus and three major assign- town University’s School of Foreign Serments per semester, but the high school vice. “They fell in love with the content students are required to study and read and thought it was something they more outside the classroom than they wanted to pursue,” the teacher said. Regardless of a student’s career path, are accustomed to. “It really felt like
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any Elmont Memorial student who takes the geopolitics course earns three Georgetown credits in social studies that will transfer to college institutions. Dougherty said that given the virtual nature of learning today amid the pandemic, exposure to a college-level workload is beneficial for Elmont’s students, who can see through this what will be required of them in college, potentially in a heavily online environment. He stressed that because the Maps of the Modern World course because it is offered through a connection with a Georgetown teaching assistant it is more beneficial for students’ long-term academic and individual growth than advanced placement courses. “It’s just much more valuable for kids to go through an authentic college course than AP-level courses because of those skillsets,” he said. “Having to be better at time management, be more independent, managing larger assignments, having a deeper conversation on certain topics, and you’re talking to people with a great level of expertise.” Overall, “It just lends to a much richer experience,” Dougherty said. “Having that and feeling confident about it, thinking, ‘I can do this,’ I think it just sets our kids up for much greater success down the road.” The class, offered since last fall, is planned to run again this upcoming spring semester and during the 2022-23 school year.
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Actress Susan Lucci and Blakeman advocate Heart Health Month
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Adorned in red, Emmy Award winning actress Susan Lucci, a Garden City resident, stood beside Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and Dr. Richard Schlofmitz, the chairman of cardiology at Catholic Health St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center, to bring awareness of February as American Heart Health Month at the Nassau County Legislative and Executive Building in Garden City on Thursday. “I have lear ned, since being the national ambassador for the American Heart Association Go Red for Women Movement, is that heart disease is the number one killer of women more than all cancers put together,” said Lucci. “It kills one in three women every year. It kills one woman every 80 seconds.” Blakeman announced that the dome of the county’s building will be lit red on Thursday night to symbolize the importance of heart health. “Heart disease is the leading killer in Nassau County and while that is alarming, according to the state, we have one of the lowest percentages by population in the state of deaths from heart disease,” Blakeman said. “However, that’s no reason to be complacent.” Like many before her, Lucci had ignored her symptoms of possible heart related complications until she had to
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Nassau CouNty exeCutive Bruce Blakeman, left, Emmy Award winner Susan Lucci, and Dr. Richard Schlofmitz, cardiology chairman at Catholic Health St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center, recognized February as Heart Health Month. be rushed into the emergency room at St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center in Rosyln where Dr. Schlofmitz was her doctor in 2018. She had a blockage of her arteries and had to have surgery to
place stents. “Many people when they have problems with their hearts keep it to themselves and Susan was brave enough to come out and talk about her history and symptoms, not once but twice,” Dr.
soap opera aCtress Susan Lucci, left, and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman discuss the importance of heart health on Thursday outside the Nassau County Legislative and Executive Building. Schlofmitz said. “If anybody has symptoms see your doctor. Get checked out.” Last year, Lucci underwent a second procedure after she recognized the symptoms again. “You need to be diligent and keep working on this your whole life,” Dr. Schlofmitz said.
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Nassau County Comptroller Elaine Phillips said she will begin an audit of the Department of Assessment on Feb. 15. Joined by County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who campaigned on transparency and change for the reassessment, Phillips reiterated her own promise to independently investigate the reassessment process and how to improve it. The audit will be Phillips’ first as comptroller and will focus on better understanding the re-assessment done under former County Executive Laura Curran in order to make changes going forward. Phillips said that the first task will be to audit the 2021 tax roll to see the methodology and process that was done for the mass appraisal. “When you go in and do an audit, you have to keep an open mind,” Phillips said. “Depending on the information that you find, the audit could evolve.” Phillips said the audit will seek to discover whether exemptions were applied correctly and how the five-year phase in may have affected the tax roll. In March 2020, the Legislature passed the Reassessment Phase-In Act with a fiveyear phase in for changes to a homeowner’s assessed value from their 2019/20 market value to the 2020/21 roll. An exemption base was then to be determined by taking the increase and multiplying it by .1 percent. In the first year of the reassessment, 80 percent of the exemption base was to be subtracted from a homeowner’s total assessment. Each year the percentage was to drop by 20 percent until the new values were fully implemented in 2024/25. Blakeman said that he has found identical properties in places like Massapequa where one home was assessed at 40 percent more than the other. “My predecessor engaged in a reassessment that wasn’t transparent and wasn’t done in a way that was fair to all the residents of Nassau County,” he said. “And because it wasn’t transparent, we still don’t know everything that went wrong.” Blakeman said that the information that comes from Phillips’ reports will be
nassau County ComptrollEr Elaine Phillips said she will begin her independent audit of the Department of Assessment and the tax reassessment done under the Laura Curran administration on Feb. 15. relied upon heavily for a decision-making process. He also said that the county executive’s office and the Legislature will have no input, which will enable Phillips to have an independent review. Legislator Steve Rhoads, the chair of the new legislative committee for assessments, was also in attendance with vice chair Legislator John Ferretti. “What we wanted as a legislative majority was a process that was fair, that was accurate, and that was transparent,” Rhoads said. “Unfortunately, what we received of the course of the last four years was anything but.” Rhoads decried a lack of transparency during Curran’s administration which saw many homeowners sue to find out how the algorithm used by the Department of Assessment calculated their home’s value. Phillips cautioned that this audit would take time, as the audit of the assessment review commission was published in December 2021 after three and a half years. She plans to have her department publish a report after they complete their review of the 2021 tax roll but could not give a timetable yet as to when. “I’m committed to transparency,” Phillips said. “I have my slogan that I am the independent protector of our taxpayers and I promise the people of Nassau County that I will live up to that.”
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BY THE BOARD OF APPEALS Pursuant to New York State Town Law Article 16, New York State Public Officers Law Article 7, and the Town of Hempstead Building Zone Ordinance, NOTICE is hereby given that the BOARD OF APPEALS of the Town of Hempstead will hold a public hearing in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Town Hall Plaza, One Washington Street, Hempstead, New York on 3/2/22 at 9:30 A.M. to consider the following applications and appeals: --------------------------------THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 9:30 A.M. 189/22. ELMONT - Rana Shahrukh Khan, Variances, rear yard, front yard setback on Ludlum Pl., construct 2-story addition, and 2nd story balcony over covered porch, all attached to dwelling., S/W cor. Benson Ave. & Ludlum Pl., a/k/a 30 Benson Ave. N.C.P.C. Local Determination. ALL PAPERS PERTAINING TO THE ABOVE HEARING ARE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AT THE BOARD OF APPEALS, TOWN HALL, 1 WASHINGTON STREET, HEMPSTEAD, NY 11550. This notice is only for new cases in Elmont within Town of Hempstead jurisdiction. There are additional cases in different hamlets, towns and villages on the Board of Appeals calendar. The full calendar is available athttps://hempsteadny.go v/875/Hearing---0302202 2 The internet address of the website streaming for this meeting is https://hempsteadny.gov/ 524/Live-Streaming-Video Interested parties may appear at the above time
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD LOCAL LAW NO. 13-2022 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing was duly called and held February 15, 2022, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 13-2022, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 13-2022, amending Section 197-5 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, to include “ARTERIAL STOPS” at various locations. Dated: February 15, 2022 Hempstead, New York BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 129726 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, as amended, a public hearing will be held in the Nathan L. H. Bennett Pavilion,
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There won’t be apartments coming to single-family home communities. At least not this year. Gov. Kathy Hochul has pulled a proposal intended to allow single-family homeowners to more easily rent out rooms and basements from her state budget, putting an end — at least for now — the controversial proposal that met with considerable opposition from local leaders. Those same leaders gathered outside an East Meadow home last Friday to celebrate the governor’s decision. Raheel Ahmad, who lives on the same street, told reporters he’s grateful housing on Long Island — where he relocated his family from Brooklyn six years ago — will stay the same. “It feels amazing,” Ahmad said. “This is why I moved here. I’m thankful for the elected officials who raised up for the residents and got a victory for us.” Hochul’s proposal would have allowed for the creation of “accessory dwelling units” — basements, attics, garages and the like which could be renovated and turned into a separate apartment unit. Hochul included ADUs as part of a broader $25 billion, five-year plan that was part of an effort to preserve up to 100,000 affordable homes across the state. “In the wake of the pandemic, it’s crucial that we tackle the housing crisis and make New York a more affordable place for all,” Hochul said at the time. “These bold steps are a major step forward in transforming our housing market, protecting affordability, and increasing the housing supply.” Hochul wanted to require municipalities to allow at least one ADU on owneroccupied residentially zoned lots, leaving details like size requirements and safety standards to individual local governments. It also would have created an amnesty program in New York City to allow for existing ADUs — where such a practice already is prominent — to be made legal. Yet, Hochul’s plan has been widely criticized, especially locally, where officials claimed it would put a strain on Long
Island resources — and be an end to suburbia. Thousands signed online petitions against the proposal, according to Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin. “The biggest investment in someone’s life is buying a house in the suburbs,” he said. “The governor’s attempt by throwing this in the budget to eliminate single housing is wrong.” Hochul’s plan would have removed “home rule,” Clavin added, meaning local governments could not determine zoning based on the character of the community and the wishes of those who live and work around it. But it’s not that ADUs don’t already exist in the Town of Hempstead, Clavin said. Zoning provisions are already in place intended to provide accessory apartments for senior citizens, and for parents looking to provide their adult children some independence, while still keeping them close to home. County legislator Tom McKevitt is the one who says he found the ADU proposal buried deep inside the 5,000-page budget. The opposition organized on Long Island is something he described as a great example of people at all levels of government coming together to preserve their quality of life. “We’re putting forth the word to the governor and to state representatives, ‘Do not try this again,’” McKevitt said. “’Do not put it in there. We’re going to be watching and protecting our communities.’” Although the governor has the state constitutional power to add policy to the budget process without much legislative oversight, Hochul’s attempt to add ADUs to the state through that process says all Town Councilman Chris Carini needs to know about the strength of the proposal. “This bill could not pass on its merits as a standalone bill and was hidden in the budget to force its passage,” Carini said, in a statement. “This was the same tactic used to pass bail reform. I was proud to join with other local officials to expose this smash and grab of our local zoning.” Brendan Carpenter contributed to this article.
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Officials gather Outside of a home in East Meadow to celebrate Gov. Kathy Hochul taking the single-family zoning proposal — which would have potentially allowed owners of single-family homes to rent out spare rooms and basements — out of the state budget.
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A. So you believe everyone is out to get you, including your architect, and you have the right to “pull back” your permit, ignoring the conditions of your house. It doesn’t work that way. Unfortunately, even though most local governments know that most homes have violations, the governments choose not to prosecute every homeowner, since it would be bad for the business of getting re-elected, so code violations go on without a word until you make the first move, which you did, by coming to the attention of the building officials whose job is public safety. Every day of the week, people ask if we can’t just look the other way. We absolutely can look the other way, but eventually who will believe us for lying or not doing our job? The issues of your home easily come up by simply bringing up satellite images, on-line accessible documents, including tax department records, showing what is in the home and whether the third floor was finished. Your building official doesn’t need the architect or you to figure out the truth about the illegalities in your home. When your architect shows the actual conditions, which he is required to do, including walls removed, walls finished in rooms that the building department has no previous record of, or other changes, he’s only doing his job. Imagine the scrutiny an architect would receive if a building official walked in to check the conditions and discovered that you and the architect had lied. I have stated in this column, many times, the statistic that only five people out of 100 will survive a fire on the third floor. Ninety-five people will die of smoke inhalation or burns. So do the right thing and follow through, whichever way you choose. I’m pulling for you.
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cine movement, which is both puzzling and surprising. He travels around the country, spreading his gospel that vaccinations are a threat to your health. According to The Boston Globe, Kennedy preaches, “the COVID vaccine is dangerous for your children.” He claims it is “criminal malpractice to give a child one of these vaccines.” He has also called the Covid jab “one of the deadliest vaccines ever made.” And his fixation with vaccines isn’t limited to those created for the coronavirus. He argues, without proof, that vaccines in general are linked to autism, food allergies and a host of other medical problems. For many years he asserted that the inoculations for measles, mumps and rubella caused autism and other neurological disorders, and according to the Associated Press, he claims that public health officials “knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of American children.” Kennedy is the darling of anti-vax
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groups all over the country, and is welcomed into the homes of the wealthy and influential, where he rails against the shots with no medical backup for virtually anything he says. He claims he is doing this as a public service, but his anti-vaccine foundation, Children’s Health Defense, recently reported more than $6.8 million on hand. Kennedy states that there is no profit motive for his antvaccine activity. When asked if he was being paid for his efforts, Kennedy told Fox’s Tucker Carlson, “I am getting unpaid for this.” But records show that in 2019, he earned $255,000 from the foundation. Kennedy has used social media to spread his opinions, and has spent big dollars to back them up. His nonprofit is one of two buyers accounting for 54 percent of anti-vaccine content on Facebook. He has a large following on Facebook and Twitter, but his Instagram account was removed last year for “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about Covid vaccines.” To add to the strangeness of Kenne-
he son of a legendary New York senator busily spreads misinformation.
dy’s crusade, his 2021 book “The Real Anthony Fauci” promotes unproven Covid-19 treatments such as ivermectin, which is meant to treat parasites in animals, and the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, and he claims that the current vaccines have never been safety tested, even though the Food and Drug Administration requires three phases of testing that involves thousands of people before a childhood vaccine is approved. There is no shortage of stories about concerned parents who believe that all vaccinations are suspicious or dangerous. I do not challenge their beliefs. But considering the many positive paths that so many Kennedy family members have taken over the years, the one that RFK Jr. has taken is a disturbing one. He is a true believer in his misguided cause, but he bears no resemblance to his legendary late father. Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.
1950s sci-fi horror story still burns bright
ow did he know? How did Ray Bradbury know in 1951 that the tiny black and white televisions popping up in everyone’s living room had the potential to alter human experience? How did Bradbury, who died at age 91 in 2012, know that the little screens would lead to big screens that would eventually possess children’s minds in a way books could not? How did he foresee that people would stuff their heads with the cerebral equivalent of cotRANDI ton candy and KREISS abandon intellectual pursuits for lives devoted to video games? Bradbury was a visionary. He prophesied that many new inventions had the potential to threaten civilized life. What he saw as science “fiction” has come to pass. We are living amid modern advances that have ironically set us back as a people in pursuit of enlightenment and knowledge. We live in an era when the great works of literature are reduced to and diluted into mini-works and summaries, Cliff Notes and comic books.
I urge you and your teenagers to read “Fahrenheit 451,” Bradbury’s 1951 novel that warned the world that it was moving inexorably toward a time of more technology and less humanity, more autocracy, and less freedom of thought. He described a time when fringe groups of fanatics would dominate by using invasive surveillance and harsh laws to squelch any resistance. He never mentioned QAnon, but he knew it was coming. Reading “Fahrenheit 451” today, in the time of alternate facts, false flags, big lies and other threats to our democracy, has left me shaken. Bradbury set the book in a city of the future, but he was writing during the time of the McCarthy hearings, the Red Scare, emerging nuclear weapons and increased government intrusion into the private lives of citizens. He wrote a what-if tale of how a civilized people could lose their freedom by following false gods that pander to their darkest impulses. Seventy years ago he was writing about now, about selfserving political operatives and fake news and pseudo-patriots who tear down the scaffolding that holds up American democracy. “Fahrenheit 451” is a short novel
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about a future in which firefighters are tasked with burning books and the houses of people who hide them. When a woman stands defiantly in her doorway with her book in hand, they burn her, too. Books are banned because they “confuse” people with their ideas. Much of the population is beaten into acceptance of the new normal, with information and entertainment blaring at them from wall screens all day. No one walks outside. Everyone is suspect. It is a thriller about one man, Montag, a fireman who experiences a sudden awakening to the horrors he has perpetrated. His wife, a survivor of multiple suicide attempts, is addicted to the virtual world projected from the screens in her house. She and her friends are inured to authentic feeling, even within themselves. Montag goes on the run, with firemen in pursuit. Eventually he joins up with a rogue band of men — former professors and thinkers, now wanderers in the wilderness, each with large sections of books memorized for posterity. Bradbury’s hero wears a “sea clam shell” in his ear that presages the AirPod. Montag stops on the street to get money from a machine that didn’t exist
eventy years ago, Ray Bradbury was presciently writing about now.
in the 1950s. Overhead, supersonic aircraft drop bombs on cities. They are unmanned drones, much like the ones our government is using to assassinate terrorists thousands of miles away. He explores the risks of free thinking in a time of crushing conformity. In the world of “Fahrenheit 451” there is no privacy, no awareness of nature, simply the elevation of technology and the diminution of humanity. Why does Montag go rogue? What makes him realize that freedom of thought is worth dying for? His last job with the firemen is to burn down the house of a woman who is hiding books. When they arrive with their trucks and flame-throwers, she is standing in the doorway with a book in her hand, and she strikes the first match, killing herself as the house explodes around her. People will die for their books, Montag realizes. It’s something to think about when we read headlines every day about book bans and censorship of treasured literature. It’s something to act on when we see children who watch but don’t read in a time in America when only 25 percent of the population reads a book a year. Bradbury knew we need books to tell the story of ourselves and pass that story on to future generations. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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n chess, you can’t control the game unless you control the board. The same can be said about politics, and since the early days of the republic, state legislatures have had virtually complete control of the congressional and legislative redistricting process. After each census, states are required to draw new district boundary lines — a controversial process that far too often is steeped in partisanship. In fact, New York state lawmakers just approved those lines in recent weeks, making a number of changes, felt primarily when it comes to who represents us where in Congress. Nothing about redistricting is popular — especially when population declines force the Legislature to remove congressional districts completely, as New York had to do this year. That’s why then Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced in 2011 what would eventually become a state constitutional amendment removing redistricting powers from the Legislature — which drew district boundaries for itself — and putting it in the hands of an “independent” commission.
We use “independent” ironically because it really wasn’t. The majority and minority parties in the Legislature each appointed four members, and those eight members chose two more people who were not registered members of either party. This commission held hearings and then drew new district late last year. What its members couldn’t do was come to a consensus. Without what would essentially be a bipartisan agreement, the entire process was thrown back to the very Legislature that held the power to draw the maps in the first place. Even if the commission had somehow found a way to agree on a final set of maps, it still required approval from the Legislature. Even in that scenario, the Legislature would only need to reject the maps drawn by the commission twice before it regained its original power to draw the maps its members chose. It’s like buying your wife a bowling ball for your anniversary, with the finger holes drilled to fit your own grip. Did anyone really believe that an inde-
pendent commission could craft district maps on its own that the State Legislature would actually approve? The odds were stacked against the panel from the very start, creating not an independent commission, but simply the appearance of one, while the process of drawing maps remained the same as it has been for the past couple of centuries. Gerrymandering is an age-old problem, and it’s hard not to look at some of the new districts — like the stretching of U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi’s congressional district from northern Nassau County straight up past Little Neck Bay, and west to the East River and into Westchester County — and not see highly creative boundary drawing. Yet we can’t seem to get out of our own way to prevent it. A slight shift of a district line here, and a tuck there, can be the difference between true representation and an electorate skewed to support an elite few. Representation is the very essence of democracy. But if we’re not drawing district lines fairly, are we truly represented?
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letters Will train platform barriers work? To the Editor: In his letter “Rail Lines Need Barriers” (Feb. 10-16), Nassau County Legislator Josh Lafazan pointed out a need for barriers on various railroad platforms. What he did not address, however, is how barriers would affect traffic on those platforms. First, if barriers are installed, there will be significantly less space on the platforms, which means that fewer people will have access to them. Second, while the technology exists to make the trains stop at the exact location so that their doors will open at the openings of the platfor m doors, that will require that all trains be the same length, no matter what the requirements for travel may be. Should the two sets of doors not match up exactly (within an allowable tolerance of about 18 inches) the passengers may not be able to detrain. Similarly, if the platform doors open and the train doors don’t, there will also be a lot of unhappy people.
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hile the state’s election districts were recently redrawn — gerrymandered — by a progressive-Democratic majority in the State Legislature for the purpose of favoring their party, gerrymandering is not a particularly new political weapon. Those on both sides of the aisle have used their power to redraw district lines, depending on who holds the majority. The practice goes back to the 1800s, but this year’s redrawing by is unprecedented, ronaLd j. and comes at a when the rosenberg time self-proclaimed progressives’ larger political agenda ranges from defunding police to “bail reform” to demonizing the successful entrepreneur, i.e., capitalism. As U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi pursues his gubernatorial primary quest, his former 3rd Congressional District is now unrecognizable. The progressive gerrymander has recreated his congressional borders into what they now humorously call the Long Island Sound District. It now stretches from Smithtown in Suffolk County, along the lightly populated North Shore, into the densely populated Bronx, and ends in Democratic West-
chester County. While several Long Island Democrats have announced their intentions to run for Suozzi’s vacated seat, they will face a growing number of New York City-based progressives who see their population density and massive Democratic enrollment in the city and its environs as bulletproof at the ballot box. The numbers speak for themselves. The Village of Northport, part of the new 3rd C.D., has some 8,000 residents. The City of New Rochelle, in Westchester, which is also part of the new district, has some 80,000. Now consider who is lining up to run in the 3rd District so far: Bronx State Senator Alessandra Biaggi, who defeated moderate Democrat Jeff Klein a number of years ago. In a December tweet, Democratic Socialist Congresswoman Alexandria OcasioCortez had nothing but praise for Biaggi. Also in the running is Melanie D’Arrigo, a self-described progressive who has been endorsed by former New York City Council Speaker Melissa MarkViverito, a city pol who once co-chaired the City Council’s Progressive Caucus. So these are the extremist candidates who stand a very good chance of assuming control of a new district designed to remove the potential of not just a Republican winning the seat, but of Long
Letters the Heralds in which he did not challenge the reader to think, to question, and to join him in creating a better community. Over the decades, his professionalism saw him literally on the front lines, reporting on everything from local events to major breaking news, and eventually overseeing the coverage that appears weekly in our local paper. Brinton has reported on not one, not two, but three once-in-a-lifetime events: the Sept. 11 attacks, Superstorm Sandy and the Covid19 pandemic. He further demonstrated his professionalism and class when the Merrick Life transitioned to the Merrick Herald, paying tribute to the decades of community journalism by the Laursen family. Scott was not only our source of news. He was a neighbor and a parent in our community. You may have waved hello to him as he jogged through the neighborhood. You may have stood behind him on the bagel line. But you always knew his byline stood for probing and honest journalism. This is one reader who will miss our local journalism, celebrity and who thanks him for his almost three decades of service to the Merrick-Bellmore community. KYLE STROBER Merrick
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Islanders having any representation focused on Long Island issues. The implications have not gone unnoticed. Great Neck-based Democratic primary hopeful Robert Zimmerman is now warning Democrats and Republicans that he is the political firewall that could prevent a progressive from representing the new district. As he raises money for the primary, Zimmerman is reciting a list of moderate, centrist Long Island Democrats who now support his effort. His strategy is that of a seasoned professional, leveraging his public relations experience to focus his message, which is, essentially, “I am your last best hope to confront this city theft.” Of course, that presumes the Republican Party won’t field a candidate who can confront and defeat whoever the Democrats nominate in this now unrecognizable district. But the reality is that the tortured borders of the 3rd are a calculated move by New York City-based progressives to dismantle Nassau and Suffolk counties’ ability to project political cohesion and regional advocacy. If successful, they will have effectively eliminated any chance that the Long Island congressional delegation will be a powerful force in the House of Representatives. Consider what that means. Will a
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Bronx progressive/Socialist Democrat really work with a Long Island Republican to redress the loss of South Shore beachfront in a nor’easter? Will a Bronx progressive care about environmental damage along Smithtown’s coastline? Will a Bronx Progressive fight for infrastructure money for the Long Island Expressway? Because, after all, shouldn’t we all be punished for not using electric vehicles? And by the way, many constituents of this new Long Island Sound District have median incomes that progressives will find worthy of their most pungent demagoguery, because capitalism is an anathema to their political ideology. This ambush of Long Island by these progressives reveals a smug disdain for suburbia, its values, its people and its needs. To counter it, Long Island voters must recognize that we have been robbed of our voice in Congress. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, liberal or conservative. As a bicounty region, we have been mugged by those who cynically intend to walk off with one of our congressional seats. The answer is to recognize the ploy and respond appropriately on Election Day 2022. 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.
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