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Elmont Road Park reopens Nearly year after $3M project began, major renovations end Elmont Road Park,” said State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages. Elmont Road Park, once a hub During its decay, a broken for recreation and play for drainage system led to pooling Elmont families and children water, creating a shuffleboard before falling into decay over area that was a “glorified pond,” decades, was reopened last Fri- and the park’s basketball courts day following a long-awaited $3 were cracked and withering million renovation project. away, Solages said, adding that Improvements to these were only a the park, which few of the many b e g a n l a s t Ju ly, issues plaguing the include a brand new park. multi-use spor ts The community field, renovated bashas voiced strong ketball and handball support for the courts, a perimeter major rehabilitation walking path, a new of the park. “We adult fitness area, PrESidENt heard loud and clear new playg rounds Elmont Cardinals that the community and a new water wanted a new park,” Sports Club play area, renovated Solages said. seating areas, upThe Belmont graded lighting and security fea- Park Community Advisory Comtures and improved accessibility. mittee, comprising local elected The park, which was once a officials and community memsump where local children bers, struck a deal with the drowned during the 1940s and developers of the UBS Arena 1950s, was at the heart of the project that modifications would community during the 1990s and be made to Hendrickson Park, 2000s. The park deteriorated over on Hempstead Tur npike in time due to lack of interest and Elmont, and that a multimillioneffort on the part of the Town of dollar renovation project would Hempstead, according to local be completed at Elmont Road elected officials and residents. Park. “The Town of Hempstead has put very little energy into Continued on page 5
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ElmoNt rESidENtS Said they were routinely paying double what they normally spend to fill up their vehicles amid the rise in gas prices.
Feeling high gas prices’ effects Elmont residents make day-to-day changes as cost at the pump reaches $5 per gallon By roBErt traVErSo rtraverso@liherald.com
The average price of a gallon of regular gas rose to over $5 earlier this month for the first time in history, and Elmont residents have adjusted their daily lives and summer plans as a result. The price of gas has risen roughly 60 cents a gallon since last month, and the average price is now above $4 in all 50 states. According to The New York Times, energy
experts have estimated that for every one-cent increase, Americans spend an extra $4 million per day. “I need my car to get from point A to point B,” said Claudine Hall, the president of the Jamaica Square Improvement League and an Elmont community advocate, adding that she had stopped coming home after work before heading out again for meetings later in the day, and instead arrives at meetings early and waits, in the interest of limit her
spending on gas. Experts point to three main causes of the rise in prices: a cyclical increase in demand for fuel that happens every year around Memorial Day; the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which took millions of barrels of oil off international markets; and a rise in energy use stemming from the recovery of the U.S. economy from the coronavirus pandemic. Charles Guder, who lives Continued on page 4
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King Kullen in F.S. set to close next month rtraverso@liherald.com
The King Kullen in Franklin Square, which has served as a staple supermarket for the community since it opened 48 years ago, will close on July 14. The Franklin Square store, located at 206 New Hyde Park Road in Franklin Plaza, will close along with a King Kullen in Glen Cove that has been open for 20 years due to soon-to-expire leases for both stores, according to the spokesperson for the supermarket chain. King Kullen also has confirmed that employees from both stores will not be laid off and will be relocated to other King Kullen supermarkets. Holiday Farms, a Nassau Countybased supermarket chain with three stores currently open across the county, will open at the same location as the King Kullen in Franklin Square on August 8. “Whoever takes over here will affect all the stores,” said Lisa DelliPizzi, the president of the Franklin Square Chamber of Commerce, adding that she believes the arrival of Holiday Farms will have a positive impact on nearby businesses. “If you like the store than you’re going to Olivetto, to the karate school, to the Baskin Robbins … it’s going to help all of them,” she said, referring to businesses located inside Franklin Plaza and next to the King Kullen that she believes will be receive a boost from the new store’s opening.
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ThE King KullEn in Franklin Square will close in July. Holiday Farms, which currently operates three Nassau County stores, will open in the same location in August. Antonia Belli, who has lived in Franklin Square for 23 years, said the supermarket, where she frequently shopped for groceries over the years, is an important part of the community. “I’m going to miss King Kullen, because if I’m in the neighborhood I stop here,” she said. Belli added that she is glad that employees at the supermarket will not
lose their jobs and will instead be relocated to another King Kullen. “They should be relocated,” Belli said. “The way things are right now, with the pandemic and all, it wouldn’t be right,” she said of the prospect of the workers from Franklin Square losing their jobs. Belli said she would like to see a Stop and Shop open at the location rather than
an Amazon Fresh store, which is set to replace the Glen Cove King Kullen. “Everything has become so conglomerate, and it’s nice to see smaller stores and smaller-level people make it to,” said Tom, a Franklin Square resident who said he often shops for his family at the King Kullen, which is only a block away from his Franklin Square home, expressing support for Holiday Farms taking over the area. New York State Assemblyman Ed Ra, who grew up nearby the King Kullen in Franklin Square and often shopped there, and DelliPizzi spoke with Holiday Farms owner David Mandell and confirmed the store’s arrival. Mandell said the supermarket will carry as much product as the King Kullen and include a deli. The company, which was founded around 1980, operates three stores in Glen Head, Roslyn and Woodbury, as well as two stores in Queens. DelliPizzi said that while many Franklin Square residents are concerned that Holiday Farms will serve as competition for local businesses, she sees the arrival of the new supermarket as an opportunity for all nearby businesses to thrive. “I don’t see things that way, I think it can only enhance their business,” DelliPizzi said, adding that she believes the Holiday Farms supermarket will bolster business the next-door stores. “I think it’s a welcome change,” DelliPizzi added.
Book displays aim to keep residents aware By ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com
Books displays at the Elmont Memorial Library are featuring titles related to Juneteenth, LGBT Pride Month and Father’s Day during June as part of its ongoing effort to keep residents and readers in tune with current events and topics. “We try to keep up with what’s currently current,” said Phil Harwood, a reference librarian who provides film and music lessons at the Elmont Memorial Library, about the overarching goal of the book displays, which are updated monthly to reflect celebratory days and prominent cultural topics. Harwood said the library first showcased books about Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the emancipation of African American slaves in the U.S., last year, and this year the book display combines books on Juneteenth with related books about the abolition of slavery in the United States, the civil rights movement, the modern concept of antiracism. The book displays, Harwood said, feature older titles along with new bestsellers. Whether they include older or newer literature, the goal of the book displays is to showcase titles and themes that residents may not be familiar with or to incentivize them to read about things they have heard about but have neglected
in the past. Harwood said the book displays also serve a community-building purpose. “The important thing about the library, about any library, is that it brings people together,” Harwood said, adding that the book displays often bring to the attention of residents programs and events at the library related to the commemoratory days and topics featured. “It brings people together to not only to read, to learn, to experience, but also to be entertained, and for people to have a place to come to,” he said of the larger purpose of the library and the book displays. In the same spirit of the book displays, Harwood has stopped releasing videos online each week of the covers of New York Times bestselling books, as he did during the height of the pandemic, and now places physical copies of the books on display in the library’s fiction and nonfiction sections. The book displays have grown popular with residents, Harwood said. With summer in full swing, Harwood said July’s book display will focus, for the second year in a row, on books related to barbeques. The reference librarian said he also plans to feature books about gardening, and that residents can check out packets of seeds to grow in their gardens from the library.
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FOR ThE SEcOnd year, the Elmont Memorial Library is featuring a display of books related to Juneteenth this month.
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Residents rethink their driving habits Emmanuel Baptist Church in Elmont, on Dutch Broadway, on the border of Val- where she is vice president, is as busy as ley Stream and Elmont, said he believed it was at the height of the pandemic. Baptiste said that food and gas prices people were adjusting their financial plans and cutting back in other areas of have risen equally high in her mind, and daily expenses to account for the rise in Hall said that she could imagine inviting fewer people to her home for a barbecue gas prices. “People are cutting down on the this summer, or asking guests to contribaround-the-corner trips with the car, and ute food. To ease the pressure of record-high gas they’re finding other ways in which to prices, Nassau County began save some of their money,” a gas tax holiday on June 1, Guder said, adding that it eliminating the sales tax on used to cost him $30 to fill up the portion of the price of gas his car, and now it costs him that exceeds $3 per gallon. $50. The county plans to extend The predictably strong the tax holiday through the demand for gasoline brought end of the year, in anticipaon by summer travel is exaction of continued high prices. erbating the problem of limitSAMANTHA On June 1, New York state ed supplies, experts say, pushreduced gasoline taxes by 20 ing prices higher at the same BAPTISTE cents per gallon, and estimattime that drivers are return- Elmont ed that, overall, this will cut ing to the road, perceiving the price of filling up by 28 that the coronavirus pandemcents per gallon. ic has faded. The global head of energy analysis at Hall said she avoided travel during the pandemic, and now is doing so because of Oil Price Information Service, Tom Kloza, the expense. “I would normally get in the told The New York Times that the average car and do a road trip,” she said, “but you American consumer is currently paying $450 per month for fuel, compared with can’t do that anymore.” “I’m afraid that the economy is going just over $100 in 2020, at the beginning of to crash,” said Samantha Baptiste, an the pandemic. Baptiste said she was paying $100 to fill Elmont resident who said the rise in gas up her SUV, which used to cost $50 to fill prices is hurting people financially. Food prices have also risen dramatical- up. Because of this, she said, she believes ly in recent months — nearly 9 percent people will cut back on taking vacations between February 2021 and February by car this summer. “It makes you want to 2022. Hall said that the pantry at the stay home more,” she said.
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AT A CITGO in Elmont on Saturday, the price for a gallon of regular gas, $4.87, was lower than the national average of above $5. AN AISlE AT a Franklin Square Stop & Shop, where residents expressed dismay with the spike in food prices during late March.
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Need for park at all-time high
With the school year set to end on June 28, local children were in need of a central location to play during the summer in Elmont if the park failed to reopen soon. “Parks are really a central community gathering place in all communities,” Solages said. Additionally, she said the rise in inflation and recordhigh gas prices are forcing families to skip vacations this summer, elevating the need for a local park for families and children to visit. “Having a local community park where people can walk to is essential,” she said, adding that this space is needed for recreation and play and as a site to enjoy nature for local families. Solages said residents grew antsy with the slow pace of the renovations and that community groups and local sports organizations are eager to hold tournaments and activities in the park this summer. During a Community Advisory Committee meeting last week, community members and the town agreed to an unofficial reopening of the park by June 28, but the gates to the park were unexpectedly unlocked on the morning of June 17, and the park was reopened. “Having a soft opening where the doors are open and kids can play is a first step in getting the park open and letting people know it’s open and available for the community,” Solages said.
Redevelopment is not fully finished
The major renovations at Elmont Road Park are finished, but minor safety improvements are being planned and residents are calling for added changes. Jon Johnson, president of the Elmont Cardinals Sports Club, a nonprofit youth sports organization, said
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ElmoNt REsidENts mEt in 2019 to discuss necessary changes at Elmont Road Park, part of the ongoing community advocacy that drove the renovation project. he spoke to residents at the park the day after it opened, and that the community is happy with the park’s new look. But Johnson said there are four main items residents would like to see added to the park: New benches or repainting of existing benches, additional entrance/exit points to the park (there is currently only one point of entry/exit to the park); a concession stand or vending machines providing food and sports drinks to keep children from venturing outside the park; and video cameras monitoring the park and signage making residents aware of the cameras. Despite these requests, community members have expressed satisfaction with the park’s reopening. “We now have a central hub for our kids,” Johnson said. He emphasized the role the park can play in encouraging outdoor activity following two years of remaining
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indoors during the pandemic. “Coming off of COVID-19, it’s going to be really good to get kids outside playing at the park,” Johnson said. Johnson said the new football field serves as an allpurpose athletic field and allows for night games to be held. He said Elmont Cardinal Football is now scheduling its home games at the park. Johnson stressed that the opening of the park is just the beginning of the new role the park can play for the Elmont community. “This is a start, it isn’t a finish,” he said. “It’s going to revitalize Elmont.” Johnson said residents are dedicated to creating a joint community-Town of Hempstead oversight committee to ensure the upkeep of the renovations and that any other required work is done in a timely fashion. He added that this committee could hold fundraisers and obtain state and federal grants for the park’s upkeep.
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Herald honors L.I.’s best in health care Achievements of doctors, first responders and more recognized By KYLE CHIN
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any called them heroes at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. But for anyone who has ever paid attention at a hospital or any medical facility, they’ve always been super. Honoring them is long overdue, but more than 400 people gathered to do just that at The Heritage Club in Bethpage last week for the Herald’s premiere Long Island Excellence in Healthcare Awards. Hosted by RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers with presenting sponsor FirstNet, Built with AT&T, some 40 of health care’s best from across Nassau County — and from Suffolk County as well — were honored June 15. Dr. Adhi Sharma, president of Mount Sinai South Nassau, was among those honored. And what’s happening at the Oceanside facility has the executive more excited than ever. “Right now, Mount Sinai South Nassau is undergoing a transformation,” he said. “We will be adding a number of advanced programs — including open-heart surgery, advanced neurosurgical techniques, and advanced stroke rescue techniques.” In his acceptance speech for being named one of Long Island’s outstanding hospital leaders, Sharma reflected not only on work already done, but also what’s planned for the MaurEEN future. WHItE “We look forward to this era beyond the pandemic,” he said, executive vice while “going back to typical care president, for our patients and working Northwell Health with the technology advancements we’ve gotten as a result of the pandemic.” Maureen White, executive vice president and chief nurse executive at Northwell Health, called the past two years or so “uncharted water.” “To see how we’ve come together in health care to navigate these uncharted and turbulent waters on behalf of our patients, it’s been very inspiring,” she added. The keynote was delivered by White’s boss, Northwell’s president and chief executive Michael Dowling. He couldn’t attend the ceremony itself — where he was honored for his lifetime achievement — because he’s traveling overseas, but he did sit down with Herald executive editor Michael Hinman on video to share what health care is like in a post-Covid world. “I never look at the world through the lens of challenges,” Dowling said. “I look at the world through the lens of opportunity. So to me, it’s the opportunity to continue to provide better care. To deal with prevention, wellness, the social determinants issues, dealing with food insecurity, dealing with lifestyle behaviors, and focusing more on those communities across the region in dire need.” So much focus has been given to Covid-19 in recent years — and rightfully so — but that isn’t the only health issue facing many people. Work must continue in other fields as well, like what Bruce Stillman is doing at of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Oyster Bay’s Laurel Hollow. “Our most recent project was for spinal muscular atrophy, which is the most lethal genetic disease in children, that now keeps those kids alive,” the laboratory’s
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o see how we’ve come together in health care — to navigate these uncharted and turbulent waters on behalf of our patients — it’s been very inspiring.
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Nassau CouNtY PoLICE Department commissioner Patrick Ryder and Town of Oyster Bay supervisor Joseph Saladino celebrate their award with Herald Community Newspapers publisher Stuart Richner, and FirstNet, Built with AT&T’s Evelsis Valentin and Anthony Postiglione at the Herald Long Island Excellence in Healthcare gala at The Heritage Club.
Want to see more? For a complete list of winners at the Herald Long Island Excellence in Healthcare Awards, along with more photos from the event, visit RichnerLive.com/2022healthcarephotos. president and chief executive said. But still, even his facility — which has weathered through a number of pandemics and health crises over its more than 130 years — couldn’t avoid the coronavirus. “When the pandemic started, we started working on Covid and Covid-related symptoms such as lung fibrosis,” Stillman said. “We never shut down. We kept doing research. And we’re back to normal now — or almost normal.” Honorees were not limited to the lab or hospital but also included first responders — often the first point of medical assistance in emergencies. “Law enforcement and the medical field are always together,” said Patrick Ryder, Nassau County’s police commissioner. “Whether it’s bringing patients to hospitals, our own members getting sick and needing help, 9/11 services, PTSD services — we’re always tied at the hip with the health services.“ Michael Uttaro, the county’s chief fire marshal, helps bring together emergency services in a broad community that includes more than 70 volunteer fire departments and six volunteer ambulance corps. “I assist with coordinating those units, which incorporate ambulances and EMS,” Uttaro said. “We regularly interact with hospitals, urgent care and everything in between. It’s a nice honor to be recognized for what you do.” Many of those first responders depend on FirstNet, a technology network managed by AT&T, that was first developed after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “FirstNet has been in the first responder and public safety space for well over 100 years,” said Anthony Postiglione, a public safety solutions sales executive for
DENIsE aLBErt, aN award-winning journalist and television producer, hosted the gala. FirstNet, Built with AT&T. “We work with law enforcement, fire, EMS, health care, and even secondary responders that assist them. It really means a lot to us to be able to honor our health care heroes here tonight. It’s something we like to do to give back to the first responder community.” But it has become more than just a system for 9/11 heroes, Long Island AT&T regional manager Magdalonie Paris-Campbell said. It’s something that has been built for all of them. “It was an honor for FirstNet, Built with AT&T, to support and attend this remarkable event, and celebrate our health care and law enforcement heroes for all they have done for our community, the region, and the state of New York during the pandemic,” she said. “As they say, not all superheroes wear capes. In fact, many wear scrubs, paraContinued on neXt page
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HERald Community nEwspapERs publisher Stuart Richner opens the Herald Long Island Excellence in Healthcare Awards at The Heritage Club last week. continued from PreViouS Page medic uniforms, stethoscopes, dispatch headsets and badges. We saw this during the pandemic as first responders braved the risk of Covid infection to protect our neighbors during one of the most challenging periods of our lives.” But on this particular night, at the Herald Long Island Excellence in Healthcare Awards, it was all about celebration. “This was an amazing program, amazing turnout,” said Herrick Lipton, the chief executive of New Horizon Counseling Center. “We’re very proud to raise awareness, and the Herald has done such an amazing job to represent people making a difference in our communities.” Presenting sponsor was FirstNet, Built with AT&T, while Mount Sinai South Nassau and New Horizon Counseling Center were platinum sponsors. Gold sponsors included Northwell Health, Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation, NAPA North American Partners in Anesthesia, LifeVac, Long Island Speech & Myofunctional Therapy Centers, and Alliance Homecare. Silver sponsors were The Stroke & Brain Aneurysm Center of Long Island, EHS Episcopal Health Services, Zwanger Pesiri Radiology, Lenox Hill Radiology, Bleu Glove Concierge, Precision LTC Pharmacy, American Family Care Urgent Care, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Family & Children’s Association, and Rising Above & Beyond Home Care.
HERald Community nEwspapERs publisher Stuart Richner, at top left, joins Evelsis Valentin and Anthony Postiglione from presenting sponsors FirstNet, Built with AT&T — to hand out some of the more than 40 awards that were part of the Herald Long Island Excellence in Healthcare gala. They joined winners like Maureen White, executive vice president of Northwell Health. moRE tHan 400 people came out to celebrate Long Island’s health care heroes last week.
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residents danced to live music and enjoyed live musical performances at the event.
Elmont celebrates Juneteenth at festival The Elmont community celebrated Juneteenth for the second year in a row at the Juneteenth Festival hosted by the Elmont Cultural Center this year on Saturday, June 18. The event took place at the center, at 14 Village Ave., from 4 to 9 p.m and was open to all. The festival featured live music and musical performances, dancing, arts and crafts for children as well as vendors and food trucks. Mimi Pierre-Johnson, the president of the Elmont Cultural Center, said that she and members of the cultural center were moved to create the festival last year because many members of the community, and society at large, seemed unaware of the history of Juneteenth, the federal holiday that celebrates the emancipation of African-Americans who were still enslaved in Texas two years after slaves across the U.S. were declared free in President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Their freedom was later made permanent with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. “African-Americans, who were brought here as slaves, and who are still today fighting for inclusion, against wealth gaps, housing gaps and other gaps, they don’t have a day,” Pierre-Johnson said in a previous Herald story. Learning to celebrate African-American history and culture, she said, is necessary for the United States to move forward, past slavery, and help African-Americans thrive. — Robert Traverso
Pierre-Johnson with members of the community and Nassau County Legislator Carrie Solages. mimi PierreJohnson, the president of the organization that hosted the festival, with Thomas Muscarella, a Town of Hempstead councilman. children ParticiPated in crafts during the June 18 Juneteenth festival.
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events and activities
Ongoing events
store food and supplies, what to store, how to find storage space and manage your supplies. Registration will begin on Friday, July 1 at 9 a.m.
Online Program: Operation Gratitude Letter Writing (F.S.) From April 26 to June 27, the Franklin Square Public Library is holding an online gratitude letter writing program. Register online at the library’s website, https:// www.franklinsquarepl.org/.
Wednesday, July 20 General membership meeting, America Lodge #2245, Sons and Daughters of Italy in America (F.S./Elmont)
Mother’s Day Mosaic Planter - Take and Make (F.S.)
The next general membership meeting of the America Lodge #2245, Sons and Daughters of Italy in America will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the VFW Post 2718 location in Franklin Square at 68 Lincoln Rd. July 20 is scholarship night for the lodge, and new members are invited to attend the meeting to learn what the organization is all about. People of non-Italian, and Italian heritage backgrounds welcome.
From May 27 to June 30 at 10 a.m. each day, make a handmade (belated) Mother’s Day gift for your mother using the take and make kits and instructional video! Provided by the Franklin Square Public Library. Visit the library’s website at https://www.franklinsquarepl.org/ to register.
Northwell Health Testing Van (F.S.) From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily, Northwell Health and the Franklin Square Public Library are providing free, confidential HIV testing and PrEP screenings throughout the spring and summer in the library’s parking lot.
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Get prepared at the Franklin Square Public Library The Franklin Square Public Library is holding an event on Thursday, July 14 that will teach members of the community how to approach food storage. The event will be held between 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in the library’s meeting room.
Project Hope (F.S.) 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/.
Wednesday, June 22 Franklin Square Civic Association General Meeting (F.S.) Attend a general meeting of the Franklin Square Civic Association between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at the multipurpose room of the Washington Street School.
Thursday, June 23 Library board meeting (Elmont) The public is invited to attend the regular meeting of the Elmont Memorial Library Board of Trustees at 700 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont. The public portion of the meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. The agenda calls for the Board to meet in Executive Session at 7 p.m.
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Senior Chat (Elmont) 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.
Upcoming events
Monday, June 27 Library Board of Trustees Meeting (F.S.) All community members are invited to attend in person the next meeting of the Franklin Square Public Library board of trustees from 6:45 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the library’s meeting room. The agenda for
the meeting (and virtual link if necessary) is posted prior to the meeting on the library’s website: https://www.franklinsquarepl.org/about-us/board-of-trustees/.
Thursday, July 14 Creating a Preparedness Pantry (F.S.) Join Janice Imbrogno from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the library’s meeting room to learn how to approach to food storage. “Being prepared for the unexpected is an investment in your well being. We never know what the future may bring. Whether it is an unexpected illness, loss of income, supply chain and distribution issues, severe weather, a natural disaster or anything else, it is important to have food, water and basic supplies available,” the library wrote in an explainer of the event on its events page on its website. Join the library to learn how to safely
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Astorino looks to wipe away political polarization By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@liherald.com
There aren’t many people who can say they’ve come close to beating Andrew Cuomo — especially at the height of the former governor’s popularity. But Rob Astorino can. Running with Chemung County Sheriff Chris Moss in 2014, Astorino challenged Cuomo, but fell short by a little more than 500,000 votes. So put him up against the current incumbent governor, Kathy Hochul, and the Westchester County executive believes he has a better chance than any other Republican on the June 28 primary ballot. “We did not have the money at the end to compete,” Astorino told a team of reporters in the Herald Roundtable session. “We were outspent eight to one.” And it didn’t help Astorino to not have the rest of the Republican Party behind him. There were reports after the election that Cuomo and state GOP leaders had hashed out a “non-aggression” pact ahead of the voting that essentially pushed Astorino aside. Those particular Republicans are gone now — and Cuomo is, too, following a sexual harassment scandal that forced him to resign last year. Astorino sees Hochul as not much more than a placeholder, and if she wins the Democratic nomination next week, it might be a perfect chance for Republicans to return to the executive
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WEstCHEstEr CouNty ExECutIvE Rob Astorino is no stranger to statewide campaigns, coming within a half-million votes of toppling Andrew Cuomo back in 2014. But to have another chance at the executive mansion, Astorino first has to get through a crowded field of Republicans. mansion. Crime is something that really has Astorino’s attention, especially when visitors from outside the country make it clear they don’t want to go anywhere near New York City. Democrats, he says, have been too soft on crime. “You know, maybe the original concept of bail reform was one that was worth having a discussion,” Astorino said. “I
don’t want some nonviolent first offender to be rotting away in jail, or to have a record that he or she is not going to be able to overcome. However, when we have criminals who are career criminals and thugs and violent criminals, we’ve got to set the example.” And even if Astorino takes over the state’s top job and finds himself facing a Democratic iron curtain, the gubernatori-
al hopeful says he’ll just push his agenda through the state budgeting process, where he would have significant power to create his own legislation beyond the Assembly and Senate. Like the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs a number of transit services, including the Long Island Rail Road. “The MTA is an absolute and utter mess,” Astorino said. “It is wasting money left and right. And nobody wants to say, ‘Well, let’s fix the problem first’ before we create all these new multi-billion-dollar projects and programs.” Astorino is against congestion pricing in Manhattan’s Financial District, and says those extra fees won’t hit those with big wallets, but instead much smaller businesses. Winning this race is going to require finding common ground in a political environment that’s quite polarized. But Astorino believes he can do it. “We can appeal — and I have to appeal — to those who don’t ordinarily vote Republican,” he said. “There are a lot of reasonable things that we do that cross party lines. So, you know, I think definitely, come November, I’m the best candidate that could actually get elected.”
‘Community organizer’ ready to make a difference By MICHAEL HINMAN
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When he first ran for president in 2008, Barack Obama took a lot of flak from opponents over his college days as a “community organizer” — work that has never been easy to define. Especially for Jumaane Williams in his own post-college days, long before anyone knew who Obama was. “No one had any idea what that was,” Williams told a team of reporters in a Herald Roundtable session. “My mother asked me to please get a real job, and I had to tell her it <ITAL>was<UNITAL> a real job.” His parents had emigrated from Grenada in the 1970s, and pushed for both Jumaane and his brother to get a good education. Williams did just that at Brooklyn College, earning a political science degree and later a master’s in urban policy. A few years later, he was a Brooklyn city councilman, toppling an incumbent a year after that other community organizer made it into the White House. And within a decade, he was New York City’s public advocate — the city’s ombudsman, for lack of a better term — that has been a major steppingstone for predecessors including former Mayor Bill de Blasio and current state Attorney General Letitia James. If he wants to have a chance to move to Albany, Williams will have to hark back to
Herald Community Newspapers provided a chance for all of New York’s gubernatorial candidates to meet with an editorial team to present their views and answer questions. This week, we have included sessions with candidates Rob Astorino, Jumaane Williams and Harry Wilson. Last week, we featured Andrew Giuliani and Tom Suozzi. All sessions can be found on our website, LIHerald.com. Neither Gov. Kathy Hochul nor U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin responded to invitations to join the roundtable. Courtesy the Jumaane Williams gubernatorial campaign
JuMAANE WILLIAMs HAs been New York City’s public advocate since 2019 — a job that has led to higher office for many of his predecessors, including former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and current state Attorney General Letitia James. Williams hopes he can leap from that job to the executive mansion. those days of upending incumbents, because observers say Gov. Kathy Hochul will be hard to beat — especially for a fellow Democrat. “I ran against Kathy in 2018, and I said that if you had a lieutenant governor that was not willy-nilly, but when necessary, would stand up to the governor, we would be better off,” Williams said. “And that proved more right than even I thought, particularly as we got into this pandemic, and wrong decision after wrong decision was happening.” The biggest problem now, as it was
then, is priorities, Williams said. New Yorkers have their priorities, and Cuomo — and later Hochul — had their own. “The priorities that were made in this (most recent) budget were not the priorities of New Yorkers,” Williams said. “To not have any funding for housing vouchers. To not put in money we asked for, for gun violence prevention. But to instead focus on a stadium being built outside of Buffalo” for the NFL’s Bills. Democrats, for the most part, have the right idea when it comes to turning society around, Williams said. But the “Demo-
cratic Party does not do a good job talking about public safety, or the economy, for that matter.” Williams said he has a plan to put New York back on the right track, but first it requires listening to what the state’s residents have to say. And listening is what he has spent much of his entire political career doing, and what he will continue to do, he added, if elected governor. “If we don’t know the intersection of housing and health care and public safety now, we never will,” Williams said. “We cannot say we’re going to let the rest of New Yorkers languish … and then send the police department to do on the back end what we fail to do on the front end. “That’s just, I think, a selfish false choice.”
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Harry Wilson doesn’t have the most recognizable name among those running for governor — in either party. But then again, as the self-proclaimed turnaround expert might say, maybe he should. It’s not like Wilson hasn’t sought office before. Hailing from Johnstown — less than an hour north of Albany — Wilson ran for state comptroller in 2010, losing to longtime incumbent Thomas DiNapoli. But now Wilson is ready to move from company executive to state executive, looking to be the Republicans’ representative on the November ballot to take back the governor’s office. “The two things that I think are essential for a successful candidate for governor,” Wilson recently told reporters at a Herald Roundtable. “One is the ability to actually fix this broken state, not just manage the decline, as I think most other candidates are proposing to do. “And the second thing is, to do that, I have to win.” That’s easier said than done. Other Republicans in the race, like Andrew Giuliani, Lee Zeldin and even Rob Astorino, have far better name recognition. But running a state government
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HARRY WILSON HOpeS he can turn his business savvy into making things happen in Albany as New York’s next governor. But to even get a chance, he has to overcome a field of Republicans who have far better name recognition than he does. isn’t much different from running a business, Wilson said. It’s just that many politicians wouldn’t know the first thing to do in the latter situation, since they’ve never run a business. “I’m not a partisan,” Wilson said. “I am a very deeply, philosophically, limited-government conservative across the
board, so I’m happy to talk about that. But, basically, I’ve been really focused on delivering results for my business, customers and stakeholders. And in my political focus, on taxpayers and voters.” Wilson describes his core principals as lower taxes, lower cost of living and safer streets. And he believes he can ful-
fill those goals with the Legislature, whether it’s run by Republicans or Democrats. “I have negotiated hundreds of deals with all kinds of entrenched stakeholders, with unions, who were kind of set in their ways,” Wilson said. “I always came to these companies that are in or near bankruptcy, so everybody’s mad. They’ve lost a lot of money, and they may have been worried about their jobs. “I have to deal with that, and create a new vision that people can believe in and rally around. And create a plan that people can support and work toward together.” That even means taking positions that Republicans traditionally have not — like the fact that Wilson is pro-choice, and says he would protect women’s reproductive rights. For him, it’s the first step in bringing a highly polarized electorate back together. And as governor, that’s what Wilson intends to do. “I’m looking out for the little guy,” he said. “Small businesses. Regular people, and creating the environment so they can all thrive through their own merit.”
Lifeguard shortage coming soon to pool near you Town supervisor successfully calls on governor to lower age minimums By MALLORY WILSON mwilson@liherald.com
Beaches and pools need just one thing to be successful — sunshine. But to stay open, there’s just one more requirement: lifeguards. And for the second straight year, lifeguards are not easy to find, threatening the summer of young and old alike. But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to Town of Hempstead supervisor Don Clavin. In fact, New York can solve its statewide shortage of lifeguards quite simply: lower the minimum age requirement for certification from 16 to 15. Clavin called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to do just that last week, saying 15-year-olds could guard kiddie pools and splash pads. Hochul apparently ag reed. She approved the change the same night she received Clavin’s letter. “Permitting 15-year-olds to serve as lifeguards at spray pads and kiddie pools under supervision of more senior guards would greatly expand the pool of eligible lifeguard candidates,” Clavin wrote. “Staffing spray pads and kiddie pools with younger lifeguards will permit older, more experienced guards to fill vacancies at beaches and regular-sized pools that desperately require their services.” Luckily, the Town of Hempstead are not suffering through a shortage, Clavin
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NeW YORk StAte doesn’t have enough lifeguards to watch its pools and beaches. Don Clavin, the Town of Hempstead’s supervisor, is asking Gov. Kathy Hochul to lower age minimums to become a lifeguard from 16 to 15. said. But the rest of the state is. “This is an opportunity to get people back in the pool,” he said. “It’s an opportunity for a lot of young men and women who want to really get into this and are ready at age 15.” The town currently has 180 beach lifeguards on call, with another 300 staffing
pools. Hempstead managed to evade a shortage by offering classes in the winter months, Clavin said, allowing would-be lifeguards to be ready to work by summer. Nassau County runs weekly programs to get prospective lifeguards tested and certified, Clavin said. Nassau lifeguards are required to take
American Red Cross training. “They go through that course, they learn rescues and various skills and so forth,” Justine Anderson, the Town of Hempstead’s aquatic director, said. Once that course is done, the prospects take what Anderson calls a rigorous certification test. That includes complete two laps in 40 seconds, and eight laps in less than three minutes and 45 seconds. There are differences between lifeguarding a pool with a deep end, Anderson said, and a kiddie pool and splash pad. “A seasoned lifeguard knows what to see in the water, they know what active drowning looks like,” she said. “At a kiddie pool, mostly the parents are in the water with the child, so you’re really just watching the parents hold their children.” Age doesn’t determine whether or not someone is going to be a good lifeguard, Anderson said. Maturity level does. “Kids at 15 years old are babysitting,” Town councilman Dennis Dunne said. “So if you leave (15-year-olds) at home with your kids when you go out, you can leave them at the pool.” The training courses are open to anyone from any town or hamlet, Clavin added. “We are the chief certifier,” he said. “This is about everybody in the equation from New York City, to Westchester to upstate New York.”
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Molloy celebrates the new ‘U’ with $2M gift By TOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com
Molloy University not only has a new name, but it also has a new gift — a $2 million one the school describes as its largest single gift in its 67-year history. It was delivered by S. Zaki Hossain, president of Pintail Coffee, a Farmingdale-based “charitable roaster” as it’s described, which he helped found in 2013. The donation headlined the first largescale, in-person event for the school with its new university status. What was formed as an all-women’s’ school in 1955 by the Sisters of St. Dominic in Amityville has grown to a roster of 4,800 undergraduate and graduate students. Hossain’s donation will be earmarked for Molloy’s new workforce development program, intended to provide training for private industry employees, with a focus on health care. Molloy’s Barbara H. Hagan School of Nursing was ranked among the best nursing master’s program and best doctor of nursing practices in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. “Zaki serves as a shining example of the great promise of America, which is that tremendous things can be achieved through education, integrity and education,” John McEntee, chair of Molloy’s board of trustees, said during the densely packed ceremony. “I know that generations of Molloy students will benefit from
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JAMes LenTini, LefT, Molloy University’s president, and Edward Thompson — the school’s vice president of advancement — celebrate Molloy’s new university status and a $2 million gift from S. Zaki Hossain. his remarkable generosity.” Hossain immigrated from Bangladesh in 1979, earning a master’s degree in engineering from what was now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn. He spent a decade in the engineering field before launching Modern Packaging in 1989, which helped develop of the K-Cup manufacturing tech-
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sion to address hunger globally, donating every single cent of the company’s profits to hunger-relief organizations. James Lentini, Molloy’s president, said donations like Hossain’s will help the school expand its role in educating health care professionals. He also thanked former president Drew Bogner and state education department Regent Roger Tilles for their work toward attaining university status for Molloy. As part of the festivities, the university also announced a partnership with Catholic Health Services, which operates Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre. Molloy nurses have continued to reinforce the workforce pipeline, which has been especially important during the Covid-19 pandemic. “We share the same values, as we are Catholic institutions, founded in faith and driven by mission,” said Dr. Patrick O’Shaughnessy, president and chief executive of Catholic Health. “Many of the students who graduate from Molloy with nursing degrees come to Catholic Health to commence their careers in health care, and are a huge asset in our vital work.” Molloy will also continue its work with another local hospital, Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside. The university has seen many of its nursing gradates begin their careers there, Lentini added, and Mount Sinai will show its appreciation by sponsoring the 2022 Summer Series of shows at Molloy’s Madison Theatre.
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From left, Caryn Sklar (class of 1984), Tamara Penn, Greg Field, Carlee Bodner (2014), Sam Bodner (2017), Marci Bodner (1982), Stuart Bodner (1981), Alison Smith (2010), Brandon Smith, Linda Sklar (1958), Stephen Sklar, Vivian Sklar, Kenny Sklar (1988), Rebecca Sklar, and Noah Sklar.
The Sklar-Bodner Family hree-generation family of Hewlett High School alumni wishes the best of luck to this year’s graduates. Linda May Sklar, a longtime five towns resident, graduated Hewlett High School in 1958. “Everybody was very friendly,” Sklar said about her alma mater. After being involved in the community for multiple decades, living close by her eldest daughter, Marci Sklar (Bodner), in Woodmere, and watching her children and grandchildren reach milestones at the school district, Linda is “not ready to leave the Five Towns,” she said, “even though it has changed a lot.” Marci graduated Hewlett High School in 1982, and later married Stuart Bodner, a 1981 Hewlett graduate. The couple has three children — Alison (Smith), class of 2010, Carlee, class of 2014, and Sam, class of 2016 — attending all the graduations and extracurricular activities. was so special,” Alison said. “I even had the same teacher or two as my mom.”
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When Anthony D’Onofrio first committed to the Hofstra baseball team as a sophomore at Wantagh High School, he saw potential for big strides for a local program he grew up following. Six years later, D’Onofrio was a catalyst in Hofstra reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history after capturing the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) title with four straight wins in the doubleelimination tournament Memorial Day weekend. The accomplishment was made even more improbable by the fact Hofstra was picked in the preseason to finish dead last in the nine team CAA. “To be ranked last in the preseason and finish in third place in the regular and go 4-0 in the playoffs and shock the whole conference really felt great,” said D’Onofrio, who hit three home runs this season as a senior center fielder including a leadoff homer in Hofstra’s 7-6 win against Northeastern on May 29 that clinched the CAA championship. “It was a crazy experience.” D’Onofrio, who will return in 2023 as a graduate student for an extra year of eligibility due to losing most of the 2020 season because of the Covid-19 pandemic, ignited Hofstra’s CAA tourney run with an infield single leading off the bottom of the ninth-inning before scoring the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Steve Harrington in a 4-3 win against Elon. The Pride kept the momentum the next day with a 4-3 victory in 10 innings versus second-seeded Elon and on May 27 and then knocked off Northeastern 8-7 in extra innings the next day on a Santino Rosso RBI double in the bottom of the 10th to advance to the CAA finals stage. Hofstra made history in achieving the school’s first conference baseball crown with its third walk-off win of the CAA tourney when Ryan Morash was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to score Brian Morrell and cap a 7-6 victory and set off a massive celebration. “To think that the program had never won a conference championship in its existence going back to 1938 is really
fORmER WANtAgH HigH School standout Anthony D’Onofrio helped fuel the Pride’s late-season success. amazing and I don’t know if any of us have realized how big that is,” said first-year Hofstra head coach Frank Catalanotto, who enjoyed a 14-year Major League Baseball career with the Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, Milwaukee Brewers and New York Mets from 1997 to 2010. “It helps put the program on the map.” The CAA championship gave Hofstra some national exposure when its name was called during the NCAA Selection Show that aired on ESPN2 on Memorial Day. The Pride were sent to an NCAA Regional at North Carolina where it took an early lead on the ACC champions before ultimately falling, 15-4. Hofstra’s magical season then concluded the next day with a loss to Georgia in a nationally televised game on SEC Network. Hofstra’s NCAA Tournament run enabled a number of locals to experience a big-time college baseball atmo-
BRAD CARmADA pitCHED seven innings in Hofstra’s 7-6 win over Northeastern in the CAA championship game. sphere. The Pride’s roster includes 10 from Nassau County in D’Onofrio, Anthony Fontana (Wantagh), Michael Florides (Glen Cove), Luke Napolitano (Rockville Centre), Mike McKenna (Farmingdale), Matt Pelcher (Merrick), Frankie DiMartino (Bethpage), Chris Keenan (Seaford) and Danny Kelleher (Rockville Centre). Catalanotto, who previously led New York Tech to the Division II College World Series in 2019 before the school suspended athletics in summer 2020, said bringing Hofstra to the NCAAs ranks very high on his list of accomplishments, especially since he never experienced the MLB postseason. After a breakthrough season, the expectations will only increase for 2023. “Now the target is on our back,” Catalanotto said. “We set a high standard and luckily these guys have bought in.”
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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 6/29/22 at 9:30 A.M. to consider the following applications and appeals: --------------------------------THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 9:30 A.M. 482/22. 484/22. FRANKLIN SQUARE Anthony & Claribel Faraci, Variance, lot area occupied, maintain awning over front porch attached to dwelling; Variance, lot area occupied, maintain roof over patio attached to detached garage; Maintain 7’6” high brick archway/gate attached to dwelling., S/s Court Rd., 200’ W/o Garden City Rd., a/k/a 863 Court Rd. 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 Franklin Square 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 at https://hempsteadny.gov/ 909/Hearing---06292022 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 and place. At the call of the Chairman, the Board will consider decisions on the foregoing and those on the Reserve Decision calendar and such other matters as may properly come before it. 132260
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU Nationstar Mortgage LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST Marva Schneider; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated December 13, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 25, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 135
Claridge Avenue, Elmont, NY 11003. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Elmont, in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, Section 32 Block 437 Lots 36, 37, 38 and 39. Approximate amount of judgment $486,938.88 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 004952/2016. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.” Dominic Chiariello, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: May 5, 2022 132239
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST Yeudi M. Sanabria a/k/a Yeudy M. Sanabria; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated June 20, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 19, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 67 West Marshall Street, a/k/a 67 Marshall Street, Hempstead, NY 11550. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, Section 36 Block 65 Lot 331. Approximate amount of judgment $718,038.37 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 017960/2011. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.” Joseph Terino, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff
175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: May 10, 2022 132080
LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU DITECH FINANCIAL LLC FKA GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC, V. GREGORY STOKES, IF LIVING, AND IF HE/SHE BE DEAD, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated March 10, 2020, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein DITECH FINANCIAL LLC FKA GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC is the Plaintiff and GREGORY STOKES, IF LIVING, AND IF HE/SHE BE DEAD, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on July 18, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 66 NASSAU STREET, ELMONT, NY 11003: Section 32, Block 678, Lot 0021: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING AT ELMONT, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 615610/2018. Karen Grant, Esq. - Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 132084 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com TO PLACE AND AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU Nationstar Mortgage, LLC D/B/A Champion Mortgage Company, Plaintiff AGAINST Evelyn Zammit; et al., Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated March 3, 2020 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 26, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1406 Dutch Broadway, Elmont, NY 11003. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Elmont, in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, Section 32 Block 701 Lot 57. Approximate amount of judgment $506,305.60 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 608630/2017. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.” John G Kennedy, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: April 22, 2022 132237
LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU JOSE LOPEZ and ROSA LOPEZ Plaintiff -againstJESUS LOPEZ, GOLDA SUAZO, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Interlocutory Judgment of Partition Sale dated November 29, 2021 and entered on December 6, 2021, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on July 26, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and being at Franklin Square, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the easterly side of Doris Avenue, distant 100 feet northerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the easterly side of Doris Avenue with the northerly side of Theodora Street; RUNNING THENCE north east along the easterly side of Doris Avenue, 60 feet; RUNNING THENCE south east 100 feet; RUNNING THENCE south west 60 feet; and RUNNING THENCE north west 100 feet to the easterly side of Doris Avenue at the point or place of beginning. Section: 35 Block: 43 Lots: 28-30
All bidders must wear a face mask/shield at all times and social distancing must be observed by all bidders at all times. Bidders who do not comply with the face mask and/or the social distancing mandate will be removed from the auction. Said premises known as 127 DORIS AVENUE, FRANKLIN SQUARE, NY Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 602925/2019. IRA WARSHAWSKY, ESQ., Referee Law Offices of David E. Mollon Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 5 Penn Plaza, 19th Floor, NY, NY 10001 {* FRANKLIN S*} 132229 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD LOCAL LAW NO. 42-2022 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 May 24, 2022, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 42-2022, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 42-2022, amending Section 197-13 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, to repeal “TRAFFIC REGULATIONS IN THE VICINITY OF SCHOOLS” at various locations. Dated: Hempstead, New York May 24, 2022. BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Supervisor Town Clerk 132268 Place a notice by phone at 516-569-4000 x232 or email: legalnotices@liherald.com
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD LOCAL LAW NO. 40-2022 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 May 24, 2022, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 40-2022, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 40-2022, amending Section 202-1 of the Code
of the Town of Hempstead, to include “PARKING OR STANDING PROHIBITIONS” at various locations. Dated: Hempstead, New York May 24, 2022. BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Supervisor Town Clerk 132269 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD LOCAL LAW NO. 41-2022 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 May 24, 2022, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 41-2022, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 41-2022, amending Section 197-5 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, to include “ARTERIAL STOPS” at various locations. May 24, 2022. BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Supervisor Town Clerk 132271 To Place A Notice Call 516-569-4000 x232
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD LOCAL LAW NO.44-2022 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, as amended, a public hearing was duly called and held on the day of May 24th, 2022, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead, on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 44-2022, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Local Law No. 44-2022, to amend Section 190-4 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead by the addition of a location to subdivision “A”, in relation to twenty miles per hour school speed limits, 7 AM to 6 PM, school days as follows: INSERT: “A” - 20 mph school speed limits ELMONT, Keegan Street between Dutch Broadway and Monaco Avenue. (TH-540/21) Dated: Hempstead, New York May 24, 2022.
BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Supervisor Town Clerk 132267 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU HomeBridge Financial Services, Inc., Plaintiff AGAINST Sharon McDougald, Charles T. Duff, Cynthia Duff, Clara Duff, Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered August 15, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on June 30, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 136 Greenway Boulevard, Elmont, NY 11003. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Elmont, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section: 37 Block 568 Lot 16. Approximate amount of judgment $505,878.24 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #607931/2017. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 mit igation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine”. Ralph J. Madalena, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 21-000355 71315 131714 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST VIVIAN PRYOR, Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered September 7, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 6, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 29 Litchfield Avenue, Elmont, NY. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Franklin Square, in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 35, Block 31, Lot 391 & 392. Approximate
amount of judgment $662,737.09 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #001660/2016. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine”. Martin Dehler, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 20-002195 131712 LEGAL NOTICE TO THE TAXPAYERS OF THE ELMONT FIRE DISTRICT: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a resolution was duly dopted by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the ELMONT FIRE DISTRICT, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, on the 25th day of May, 2022, subject to permissive referendum as Town Law. An extract of the resolution is as follows: THE ELMONT FIRE DISTRICT SHALL SELL A 2017 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 CHIEF VEHICLE NO LONGER NECESSARY FOR THE DISTRICT’S USES AND PURPOSES VALUED AT MORE THAN TWENTY THOUSAND ($20,000.00) DOLLARS, ESTIMATED TO BE VALUED AT FORTY FIVE THOUSDAND ($45,000.00) DOLLARS, THE VALUE OF WHICH WILL BE DETERMINED BY MARKET FORCES, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN THE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS UNDER SECTION 176 SUBDIVISION 23 OF THE TOWN LAW Sale of said vehicle is subject to permissive referendum as required under Section 176 subdivision 23 of the Town Law and in accordance with procedures for permissive referendums as described in the General Municipal Law. Dated: May 25, 2022 BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS ELMONT FIRE DISTRICT TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD ATTEST: FRANCES ANDINO Secretary 132273 LEGAL NOTICE SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Supreme Court of New York, Nassau County. CITIBANK N.A., NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS TRUSTEE OF NRZ PASSTHROUGH TRUST VI, PlaintiffagainstNASSAU COUNTY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR, AS
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June 23, 2022 — FRANKLIN SQUARE/ELMONT HERALD
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StudentS from the Sewanhaka Central High School District tested equipment at a Harvard laboratory that will be sent aloft by a NASA weather balloon next spring.
SWHK district students visit lab, test experiment er balloon during spring 2023. One of the winning teams from the Future Engineers/NASA TechRise Student Challenge, the group of Sewanhaka district students will be able to develop and analyze results from an experiment
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ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL CURTO, JR., DECEASED; DANIEL P. CURTO, III, AS HEIR-AT-LAW OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL CURTO, JR., DECEASED; GEORGE A. CURTO, AS HEIR-AT-LAW OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL CURTO, JR., DECEASED; UNKNOWN HEIRS-ATLAW OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL CURTO, JR., DECEASED; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants. Index No. 612412/2018. Mortgaged Premises: 417 Saint Luke Place Franklin Square, NY 11010 Section: 35 Block: 156 Lot: 26. To The Above Named Defendant(s):
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. If you fail to appear or to answer within the aforementioned time frame, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECTIVE of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a CEMA-
Mortgage to secure $201,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Nassau County Clerk’s Office on May 11, 2004 in Book M 26714, Page 680, Control Number 1494, Ref Number CV 020013, covering the premises known as 417 Saint Luke Place, Franklin Square, New York 11010. The relief sought herein is a final judgment directing sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the CEMA-Mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates Nassau County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is located. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the
answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO, LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, (212) 471-5100, Attorneys for Plaintiff 131748
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of their own design. Their experiment, called “Atmospheric Measurement of Noxious Gasses Using Sensors (‘A.M.O.N.G.U.S.’),” is designed to supplement research concerning the effect of greenhouse gases on climate change, a statement from the school district explained. “The students created an instrumentation package that includes various sensors to measure ozone, volatile organic compounds, carbon dioxide and particulates in the atmosphere. They also plan to record video and photographs during flight,” according to the statement. The Harvard laboratory visit allowed the district students to test their equipment at conditions similar to what is expected at 70,000 feet using Harvard’s large environmental test chamber. “With the guidance of Harvard engineers, the students confirmed the viability of their experiment, collected data for instrument calibration and will now begin final preparations in anticipation of the 2023 launch,” the statement added, explaining
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Pre-engineering students from Sewanhaka Central High School District schools traveled to a laboratory at the Anderson Research Group at Harvard University to test equipment that they will launch 70,000 feet into the sky via a NASA weath-
the success of the students’ experiment and trip. “Through the Future Engineers/ NASA TechRise Student Challenge, the preengineering students gained realworld STEM experience in an initiative designed to attract, engage and prepare future science, engineering and mathematics students,” the district added in the statement. The challenge, which is in its inaugural year, attracted over 600 entries from teams across the United States. The Sewanhaka district was one of only 57 teams selected. The pre-engineering course is part of the district’s Career and Technical Education program and is under the direction of Sewanhaka teacher Jack Chen. Twenty-two districtwide students, who are enrolled in the eleventh-grade pre-engineering class, are working on the NASA TechRise Challenge project. — Robert Traverso
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Q. We started planning a project to add a room, 303 square feet, in 2015, and due to many delays, we received approval for a permit only in January of this year. The costs from when we originally started planning until now increased from an estimated $80,000 to almost $200,000. Part of the work was to remove the previous owner’s handicapped-accessible deck with a permitted roof, which, thankfully, we don’t need. We got an alternative estimate for a paving-block patio, which we understand doesn’t need a permit in our town if it’s on the ground. The contractor even said we could cover the entire yard. We still want to keep the roof, so do we need a permit for the patio, and do we need a permit for the footings to continue supporting the roof we want to keep?
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A. You can see, firsthand, what has happened with the economy and costs. Fortunately, you have an alternative to save money. People who are planning enclosed rooms aren’t as fortunate in the economy we’re now facing. I have always recommended patios, properly drained, supported and finished, over the other onte eeper choice of decking, where possible, not just because many jurisdictions don’t require a permit for the paving, but also because the maintenance is less for a patio, and it will last much longer than a deck system. Some communities have regulations for a permit to be filed for paving to show the authorities that the paving is “permeable” — that it still allows rain to seep into the ground to recharge the water supply deep in the earth below. Your location is in a town that doesn’t require a permit for anything that’s built less than 8¼ inches above the ground. Incidentally, the magic of 8¼ inches isn’t arbitrary; it’s the maximum height of a step in the building code. I just returned from a trade fair where I had the opportunity to discuss material pricing with many suppliers, and the consensus is that prices for commodity materials such a raw lumber and cement will begin to fluctuate downward, but many said that they don’t anticipate manufactured items to come down again. Just as real estate has seen a dramatic increase, so now have materials and construction in general. The biggest concern we should all have, if we care about the next generation and the health of our economy, is whether they will ever be able to afford what their parents had. Currently, only 9 percent of the next generation of American families own or have a mortgage on a home, while the majority of the generation has had to find alternatives, such as multi-generational living arrangements or apartments, trailers or recreational vehicles as permanent living, according to Building magazine, among other building information resources. I hope the existing deck roof already has a correct supporting footing in the ground. If not, good luck!
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report just published by ERASE Racism explores how equitably educational resources are available across school districts on Long Island — and specifically, whether they vary depending on a district’s racial composition. The results are startling, and the implications for the Town of Hempstead are disturbing. The report, “Unequal Resources for Long Island Students Based on race,” analyzes school districts by race. Of the 125 districts on Long Island, the report focuses on 66, ELAinE which fall into the following four cateGRoss gories: 11 intensely segregated (90 to 100 percent nonwhite), 10 majority Black and Hispanic (50 to 89 percent), five racially diverse (40 to 60 percent white), and 40 predominantly white (at least 70 percent). The research reveals, among other findings, that the 11 intensely segregated districts have, on average, nearly $10,000 less in annual revenue per student than predominantly white districts. The most segregated districts also have more students for every guidance counselor and social
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worker than predominantly white districts. On average, there is one guidance counselor for every 1,226 students in intensely segregated districts, and one for every 356 students in predominantly white districts. Similarly, there is an Advanced Placement course for every 179 high school students on average in the most segregated districts. That’s more than double the median ratio for all districts with at least one high school. The report also found that the number of intensely segregated districts has grown from five in the 200304 school year to 11 now. The percentage of Black and Hispanic students in those 11 districts has also grown in this period, from 28 to 37 percent for Black students and from 13 to 36 percent for Hispanic students. The geography of those 11 districts is also illuminating. Seven are in Nassau County, and six of those are in the Town of Hempstead. The seventh, Westbury UFSD, is in the Town of North Hempstead. The other four districts are in Suffolk County. The six districts in the Town of Hempstead represent a majority of the intensely segregated districts on Long Island. They
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are Elmont, Freeport, Hempstead, Roosevelt, Uniondale and Valley Stream 30. Elected officials representing those school districts should be alarmed by the disparities in resources for their constituents and prioritize getting them addressed. They should be asked, why do those intensely segregated districts have, on average, so much less revenue per student? Why do they have far fewer guidance counselors and A.P. courses? And what will those officials do about it? A related question for all Long Islanders — elected officials, civic and business leaders and ordinary citizens alike — is, why does Long Island, with only two counties, have 125 school districts, and what can be done to change the racial segregation and resource disparities inherent in that fragmentation? Those conditions are grounded in the structural racism on Long Island, which is one of the 10 most racially segregated metropolitan regions in the U.S. School district boundaries, student assignment policies and district funding are all shaped by racially segregated residential patterns, reflecting historical and ongoing structural racism. Whether intentional or not, this racism excludes Black and His-
lacks and Hispanics are excluded from resourcerich school districts.
panic students from resource- rich school districts populated primarily by white students, and simultaneously ensures that districts populated primarily by Black and Hispanic students have resource deficits. What can be done about it? One way of addressing the resource deficits is to bring the resources of the intensely segregated districts up to the level of predominantly White districts. In fact, one can make a strong argument that districts filled with “high-need” students should have access to more resources than those with more privileged students. Another way to address the resource gap is to redesign the districts so that their schools and classrooms are more racially diverse. That can be done by changing the number and footprint of those districts. It can also be done by creating collaborations between districts to increase access to A.P. courses, for instance. With remote teaching more common due to the coronavirus pandemic, it should be easier to envision and implement such collaborations. All Long Islanders should consider the findings of this report. We should be asking ourselves, our elected officials, and candidates for office what we, and they, are going to do about them. Elaine Gross is president and chief executive officer of ERASE Racism, the Long Island-based civil rights organization.
Taking to the air is no flight of fancy
f you have fond memories of flying someplace for summer fun, well, you can just wipe that fantasy out of your head. My reverie of fun flying goes back decades. There I was, on July 4, 1968, in my dress-and-coat ensemble, white gloves and straw hat, boarding a plane with my brand new husband. Destination Bermuda! We flew coach and had a yummy meal delivered to our seat on a little tray with darling salt and pepper RAnDi shakers. Chicken KREiss or beef. As I recall, my husband of 20 hours didn’t take off his tie. We didn’t take off our shoes and socks like today’s travelers. Flying was a life event. One dressed. Get this: We talked to each other on the flight. With no devices or seat-back entertainment, we started a conversation that has lasted 54 years. To be clear, we haven’t spoken for all of those years, but we’ve done our best. The flight attendants, who were called
stewardesses and were all women, were unfailingly solicitous and professional. They were glamorous, and they wore perky little hats at a saucy tilt. Speaking of saucy, the person seated next to me on this flight (I’m writing at 34,000 feet) just spilled the barbecue sauce from her sandwich all over my shoe. She looks like a superhero in her bright red Wonder Woman ensemble, but actually she’s eating a superhero. Has to be three pounds of meat and sauce. My husband has a seat in a different row because we both wanted aisles. That’s what happens after 54 years. Whoopsie. We just dived. “Fasten your seat belts,” the captain announced, but our flight attendant, who looks like she just rolled off a long-haul flight, kept up her chitchat with a colleague, not particularly tuned in to the passengers. I know flight attendants have to meet certain physical standards to do the job, none of which has anything to do with gender or any subjective requirement for good looks, etc. As it should be. But I do think that since we’re all locked up in
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this flying metal tube for a few hours, the attendants should maintain appropriate decorum, and avoid using the mic for their stand-up. We have lost so much general civility that it would be nice to be nice in these close quarters. Today our flight attendant is a bit of a bully. She has asked me three times if I have any trash to contribute to her huge plastic bag, and I keep saying no. Last time she started rummaging in my seat back. “What’s this?” She said. “It’s my cookies,” I said. She gave them back. The whole tenor this experience is upside down and backward. First, you feel immensely grateful if you can even find a seat on a plane in this somewhat but not really post-pandemic summer season. Then you have to raid your bank account to buy a ticket. On JetBlue you can buy a ticket, but if you want an actual seat, and you want bathroom privileges and would like to bring a bag, you have to pay more. I exaggerate, but you do pay more for getting on board early, for checking a suitcase, for snagging an upfront seat.
rom white gloves in 1968 to a seatmate’s sauce on my shoes in 2022.
Everything is easier … and harder. It took me a long time to figure out how to “pair” my phone with the JetBlue seatback screen. Going through security is fraught. This is true: My husband got pulled of the security line and had his bags searched because he was carrying an amount of Miralax that was deemed “suspicious.” In some ways, it is an explosive, I’ll grant them that. My fellow passengers are a wellbehaved group, although no one is wearing a mask anymore except me and my husband and a few other oldies. But how people trundle onto a plane in the getups I see is puzzling. If you’re going to sit three inches from a stranger for four hours, shouldn’t you tidy up a bit? Get the food out of your beard? This is our first flight together since last summer’s vacation, when we dropped into the raging wildfires in northern California, and basically turned around and came home. For us, staying grounded isn’t an option. I keep reminding myself that this isn’t, and will never be, a new “normal.” It’s a new world. We have to be patient and pack a sense of humor. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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letters Biden’s federal gas tax suspension follies To the Editor: President Biden is contemplating a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax as a means of reducing the price, which is around $5 per gallon nationally and has been growing each week. This makes no sense in the long run. He reminds me of the emperor during the decline of ancient Rome, who offered the masses free bread and circuses as a means to placate them. Biden fails to explain how Washington would deal with less money going into the Highway Trust Fund as a result of a gas tax holiday. This is a critical source of funding for highway and transit projects. A gas tax holiday would result in Uncle Sam not collecting 18 cents for every gallon of gas. The Highway Trust Fund already faces financial difficulties. The lost dollars would have to be made up, and Con-
most complicated municipalities in the country — prepared him well for the governor’s mansion. Most important, during his time as county executive, Suozzi — who is both an attorney and a certified public accountant — reversed years of fiscal mismanagement. The current economic environment will require a deft manager of state finances, and we are confident that Suozzi would do this while balancing the need to make New York a more affordable place both to live and to conduct business. Hochul should be applauded for hitting the ground running last year, after Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned in disgrace. However, we’re not sure that Hochul understands, or will prioritize, the needs of Long Islanders. The home region of a governor can certainly stand to benefit from having a native son or daughter in Albany. Case in point: the sweetheart deal Hochul brokered for a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills, in her home territory. The behind-closed-doors deal provides $1 billion in state funding for the stadium — the largest municipal aid package in the history of the National Football League — to support the upstate economy. Furthermore, before Hochul’s time in Albany, in her one term as a member of Congress, she received an A rating from the National Rifle Association, from which she also accepted campaign contri-
butions. She has since insisted that her views on guns have “evolved,” and that she now supports much-needed sensible gun regulation. Hochul says that her previous stance on guns was simply representing the views of the people in her rural district. But one can be pro-Second Amendment without aligning herself with an organization that opposes common-sense gun form. That is Suozzi’s position, which, no surprise, earned him an F rating from the NRA. The jury is still out on Hochul’s ability to make the correct choice when it comes to big decisions. The coronavirus pandemic reminded all of us about the real-world — and sometimes life-or-death — consequences of a governor’s decisions. Yet, arguably Hochul’s biggest decision to date — her appointment of Brian Benjamin as her original lieutenant governor — was nothing short of disastrous, and could have been avoided with proper vetting. Just seven months into his job, Benjamin was indicted on wire fraud, among other charges, and was forced to resign. Williams, the third candidate in the Democratic race, has a bright future, but does not have the executive experience the state currently needs. The Herald endorses Tom Suozzi in the Democratic primary for governor.
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alling all lawyers: we need you back in law school, now. We need you in classrooms and clinics, in person and on Zoom. Law schools regularly post openings for fulltime and adjunct positions. They also need volunteers to serve as role models and mentors, to help inspire students so they excel in doctrinal and experiential courses and pass the bar exam. On that last point, we all know the bar exam isn’t easy. But did you know that on the last one, more than a dozen jurisdictions’ pass rates SARA J. were under 50 percent? So if you’re BERMAN seeking meaningful opportunities to influence our world, nothing could be more important. Law schools help shape society’s future counselors, advocates and legislators — we are responsible for the professional formation of tomorrow’s leaders. What we do, and what our graduates do, matters. The rule of law matters. Work as a legal educator is particularly appealing (pun intended) because our stu-
dents take their skills and knowledge to do well and do good. Our graduates work in private, public interest and government, handling a wide range of civil and criminal matters. They work on bankruptcies and evictions, consumer protection and civil rights litigation. Their efforts may allow families to stay in their homes, or prevent children from losing visitation with parents or grandparents. They help entrepreneurs acquire patents for new inventions. They help businesses resolve disputes that prevent them from thriving. They represent clients ranging from the most sophisticated elite to ordinary people who simply don’t have the savvy necessary to navigate our increasingly complex world. Why teach now? Legal education, a world that hadn’t varied much for over a century, is undergoing radical change. Law schools today are bustling with new ideas, awareness, philosophies, and ways of teaching. Licensing and law practice are evolving, driving the academy to rethink what students need to become “practice ready.” The American Bar Association just instituted new requirements
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LEttERS gress would have to decide how to do that. It will either raise other taxes, transfer revenue from another source, borrow more (increasing our growing $30.4 trillion national debt) or reduce the scope or number of funded transportation projects. In the end, both motorists and transit riders will be the losers if federal gasoline taxes are temporarily suspended. How did we go from an energy-independent nation to an energy-dependent nation under Biden? Why have gasoline prices increased from $3 to $5 or more under his watch? Why haven’t Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi convened a special commission to investigate this? LArrY PENNEr Great Neck Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office.
Biden’s court pick was ‘arrogant’ To the Editor: I do not take issue with John Turchiano’s criticism of politicization in the appointment process of Supreme Court
for law schools to include professional identity formation and cultural competency training. Creative law professors are developing new “ed tech” to assist in and out of the classroom. Most value inclusivity, collaborative skills and problem solving more than intimidation. (No more looking to terrorizing scenes from “Legally Blonde” or “The Paper Chase” as “inspiration.”) Things have also changed on the student side. More students — though still too few — from historically underrepresented populations are enrolling. And many law students are pursuing second and third careers, bringing wide and varied work and life experience to classroom discussion. So, readers who always dreamed of becoming lawyers, now is your time, too. Even the bar exam is changing. We expect to have a new “NextGen” exam in at least two-thirds of states that will have much more of a practice-oriented focus, with negotiating, interviewing, counseling and other practical skills along with torts, contracts, criminal law and other traditional subjects. Fewer subjects will
justices in his letter last week, “The Supreme Court was political long before the leak.” But the decisions of the court can be, and are, inevitably interpreted as consistent with one political viewpoint or another. Would Mr. Turchiano deny that a president is entitled to nominate those whose political philosophies are consistent with his own? To do otherwise would be illogical. I find it most curious, though, that he made no mention of President Biden’s recent appointment of soon-to-be Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Biden’s limiting his appointee to meeting only two criteria — race and gender — is, perhaps, the most flagrant example of politicization in memory, devoid of any consideration of competence, experience or even political philosophy. Even if he hadn’t made race and gender his only criteria, Jackson might still have been appointed to fill the vacancy on the basis of her abilities and legal background. Biden, in effect, did her a disservice by putting her up for consideration based on two criteria totally irrelevant to performance as a Supreme Court justice. He was motivated, I believe, by arrogance — namely, to be able to point out that he, if his nominee was approved, would be the first president to appoint a black woman to the court. This would have been obvious without Biden patting himself on the
be tested overall. And that rite of passage (or, as some might say, hazing ritual), the multistate bar exam, a six-hour, 200-question, multiple-choice marathon that allows test takers only 1.8 minutes to analyze each complex scenario, will finally be history. The pandemic taught us all a great deal. For many, seeking meaning in our day-to-day life has become paramount. In a recent conference panel entitled, “The New Pedagogy: What We Should Study About Legal Education Now,” at the Online & Hybrid Learning Conference, one scholar noted that a key difference among today’s law students from those in previous generations is that now they enter law school believing their professors care about them. It’s true. We really do. So, lawyers out there, if you love what you’re doing, keep at it, and thank you. Your work is critically important. And if you’re thinking about a new challenge, consider coming back to the future of law school. We need the best and brightest. And future law students, now is your time. Sara J. Berman is a professor of law and the assistant dean of academic excellence and bar success at Touro University’s Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in Central Islip.
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back beforehand. Biden’s was the most egregious example of politicization and tainting of the nominating process, yet one in which relevant criteria were tossed aside. Biden owes America, and Jackson, an apology
for his frivolous and selfish action. I don’t know why Mr. Turchiano didn’t mention this. Perhaps it was a political decision? rOBErT ruBALSKY East Rockaway
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Free Health Screenings at the Mount Sinai South Nassau Health Fair
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