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‘The very best in musical theater’ Touring company plans to open permanently at Elmont library division, as we open Nassau County’s only professional theater this fall here at the state-ofIn March of 2020, it was t h e - a r t E l m o n t M e m o r i a l uncertain whether Library Theater.”

Plaza Theatrical, Harrington the Long Island announced the cret o u r i n g t h e at e r ation of a new founded in 1983, division of the would survive the organization, coronavirus pancalled Plaza AEA demic, which shut Productions Limitdown Broadway ed, that will allow and crippled the Broadway talent to perfor ming ar ts appear in Plaza nationwide.

Theatrical’s musiFifteen months cals. Productions later, at a news conwill be mounted ference on June 23, exclusively at the Plaza Theatrical library theater.

Producer Kevin F. Harrington said Harrington anhe was excited nounced a partnerabout the prosship between the KEVIN F. pects of a local organization and professional theElmont Memorial HaRRINgToN ater. “There are so Library to open the Producer, Plaza many amazing first professional Theatrical destinations here theater in Nassau in Nassau County,” County at the he said, “and now, library’s theater this fall. with the Plaza organization, we “After a very challenging year add a professional theater to our and a half for all arts organiza- incredible county.” tions across our country,” HarHarrington and County Execrington said, “I am delighted to utive Laura Curran, who attendshare the news that the curtain ed the news conference, emphais about to rise on Plaza Theatrical’s new professional Broadway Continued on page 9

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Posing with the principal Sewanhaka High School senior Justin Nicholas took a selfie with Principal Nichole Allen during the class of 2021’s graduation ceremony on Sunday. More photos, Page 3.

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Sewanhaka high School’S class of 2021 filed in to the ceremony in a sea of purple on Sunday at Hofstra University.

Farewell to Sewanhaka H.S.’s class of 2021 Sewanhaka High School’s class of 2021 bid farewell to their alma mater and looked forward to new beginnings at the school’s annual commencement ceremony at Hofstra University on Sunday.

Valedictorian and salutatorian Rahul Maharjan and Hiba Agha delivered their commencement speeches in front of their peers and family members.

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claSS preSidentS Blanca Castillo, above left, who will be attending St. John’s University, and Jessica Diaz, who will be attending Adelphi University to study psychology, welcomed everyone to the ceremony. alexia cordoBa accepted her diploma from Principal Nichole Allen at left.

StudentS filled the stadium with excitement.

Brandon calle-Sanchez, a Commencement Scholar, National Business Honor Society and World Languages National Honor Society for Spanish.

Former F.S. physician denied bail by Nassau judge

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George Blatti, the former Franklin Square-based physician charged with five counts of second-degree murder in 2019 for overprescribing opioid to five drugaddicted patients who died between 2016 and 2018, was denied bail on June 23 by a Nassau County judge.

Blatti, 75, was remanded in March to Nassau County jail with no possibility of bail by the acting State Supreme Court Justice.

At a bail hearing on June 23, Blatti’s defense attorney, Nancy Bartling, argued that the former physician is no longer a danger to the public because he is no longer able to prescribe medication. Bartling proposed bail of $250,000 or more, along with home confinement, electronic monitoring and passport surrender.

“This is not a violent murderer with a rap sheet a mile long. This is a man who was a respected physician … and with no criminal record,” Bartling said, arguing that Blatti, the former physician who is originally from Malverne, had been overcharged.

Blatti was charged with five counts of second-degree murder and 11 counts of reckless endangerment, as well as 22 counts of criminal sale of prescriptions for a controlled substance, six counts of second-degree forgery, two counts of firstdegree reckless endangerment, two counts of second-degree reckless endan-

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Blatti, chaRged in March with five counts of second-degree murder, was denied bail on June 23 by a Nassau County judge. germent and 22 counts of fourth-degree criminal diversion of prescription medications that he was previously charged with in November 2019.

Throughout Blatti’s case, Nassau prosecutors have noted that Blatti is the first doctor to face second-degree murder charges in New York State under the theo-

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“He is a serial killer in our opinion,” said former Nassau County DA Madeline Singas in March. “His prescription pad was as deadly as any lethal weapon.”

Blatti formerly practiced from a makeshift office inside what was one a Franklin Square RadioShack that still contained merchandise racks on the walls and outdoor store signage. Then, when Blatti lost access to that space in 2019, he began prescribing medications from the parking lot of a Rockville Centre hotel he was living in at that time.

When the Nassau County Police Department’s Asset Forfeiture and Intelligence Unit began investigating opioid overdoses in August 2018, it found that several individuals had obtained prescriptions from Blatti, then a general practitioner with no specialized training in pain management, Singas said in March.

Four other patients died under the care of Blatti, who is originally from Malverne; his victims were residents of Valley Stream, Hempstead and Floral Park, according to prosecutors.

“If his drug-addicted patient asked for more drugs, he simply wrote them more scripts,” Singas said at a news conference, alleging that this practice led to the premature deaths of Sabatasso, Michael Kinzer, Robert Mielinis, Sean Quigley and Diane Woodring.

“They’re our neighbors, they’re our family, they’re our loved ones,” Singas said of the five victims. Blatti prescribed his patients a “staggering amount of opioids,” Singas said, adding that “no amount of willpower could overcome” these drugs.

Blatti pleaded not guilty to the charges –second-degree murder and reckless endangerment – brought against him in March. The Nassau County district attorney’s office has been investigating whether Blatti’s prescriptions led to further deaths. He faces 25 years to life in prison.

Blatti’s attorney Bartling, who said at Wednesday’s hearing that “The facts do not support a murder charge here by any means,” said that Blatti intends to see his case through to a trial.

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Town pledges to distribute 10,000 Narcan kits

By RoBeRt tRaveRso rtraverso@liherald.com

The Town of Hempstead pledged to distribute 10,000 opioid antidote kits by the end of 2021 and announced increased funding and revamped programs at a news conference last Wednesday as part of a new effort to counter the rise in opioid-related deaths amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Town Supervisor Don Clavin and Councilman Anthony D’Esposito spoke on the town’s new goal to distribute 10,000 kits of Narcan, a commonly used version of the medicine naloxone that blocks the brain’s opioid receptors and quickly reverses the symptoms of opioid overdoses.

“Hempstead Town has an established record of fighting the opioid epidemic,” Clavin said, pledging to continue the town’s effort to end the opioid crisis. In a statement, the town reaffirmed its commitment to “winning the war against opioid addiction.”

Opioid-related deaths have spiked amid the pandemic. According to the Town of Hempstead, opioid overdoses rose 34 percent between 2019 and 2020 in Nassau County for a total of 287 opioid-related overdoses.

The pandemic has caused high levels of stress and loneliness for those who struggle with opioid addiction, which often leads to depression, anxiety and low selfesteem, according to local experts. In fact, a July 2020 study found that 75,000 so-called “deaths of despair” — caused by drug misuse, alcohol and suicide — can be attributed to the high levels of stress, isolation and unemployment brought by the coronavirus pandemic.

“The effects of the opioid epidemic are tragic, and we are committed to increasing our efforts to beat the disease of drug addiction,” Clavin said.

“I have confronted the results of opioid addiction first-

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the new goal was announced at a news conference last Wednesday by Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin and Councilman Anthony D’Esposito. hand, and the consequences of heroin and other opioid use are alarming and tragic,” said D’Esposito, a former NYPD Detective who has led the town’s public education and training initiative in the fight against opioid addiction.

In 2017, Hempstead launched a Narcan distribution and training program that had distributed more than 6,500 Narcan kits as of this June.

“I am pleased that we have made a positive difference in the opioid battle by presenting Narcan training and drug abuse awareness programs. I am prepared to increase our efforts to address the increase in opioid overdoses,” D’Esposito said, committing to further work to beat back the opioid crisis in Hempstead.

The town’s new naloxone training programs will be

held by the town on Saturday and Sunday mornings at 9 a.m. at Town Park Point Lookout throughout July and August. The first sessions will take place on Saturday, July 10 and Sunday, July 11.

Clavin and D’Esposito also announced additional funding to fight the opioid epidemic, which has devastated Long Island since the mid-2010s, killing nearly 200 people in Nassau in 2017 and 2018 alone. A portion of the town’s federal coronavirus pandemic relief funding will be directed toward drug awareness and treatment programs, officials said.

“We’re going to redouble our efforts in the face of increased opioid overdoses during the Covid pandemic, and we are dedicated to winning the battle against opioids,” Clavin said.

Senator Kaminsky announces for district attorney

By James BeRnstein Jbernstein@liherald.com

Todd Kaminsky, who was re-elected last November to a third two-year term in the State Senate, announced his candidacy for Nassau County district attorney Tuesday.

Appearing in a dark blue suit despite the high heat, the 42-year-old Kaminsky stood outside the Nassau D.A.’s office in Mineola, flanked by his wife, the lawyer Ellen Tobin, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, and a host of other state and county officials, retired police officers, his parents and supporters from his hometown of Long Beach.

Kaminsky was endorsed by the Nassau County Democratic Party late Friday afternoon. Nassau’s outgoing D.A., Madeline Singas, was confirmed as a judge on New York’s highest court this month, triggering an election in November. Joyce Smith is Nassau’s acting D.A. currently.

“We begin our campaign for Nassau County district attorney today,” said Kaminsky, to cheers from a crowd of about 100 people. “We need steady, experience leaders” in the D.A.’s office, he said.

Kaminsky, who was a state assemblyman before winning a seat in the State Senate in 2016, emphasized his law-enforcement experience in his speech.

He has been criticized by Republicans for his support of a bail reform law that freed defendants awaiting trial who could not afford bail by limiting the number of crimes for which judges could set bail. The

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state sen. todd Kaminsky and his wife, Ellen Tobin, were surrounded by supporters as Kaminsky announced his candidacy for district attorney Monday. issue was raised in Kaminsky’s most recent election. He said he has since made adjustments to the law, adding several more crimes for which judges can set bail.

“I will stack my record fighting violent crime against anybody’s,” Kaminsky said in answer to a question about the issue.

Kaminsky worked as an assistant district attorney in the Queens County district attorney’s office, prosecuting domestic violence cases, robberies, shootings and other violent crimes. In 2008, he joined the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, as an assistant U.S. attorney, where he worked for six years.

There, he became acting deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section, prosecuting elected officials, including State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a health care network that he ran; Assemblyman Jimmy Meng for wire fraud for offering to bribe prosecutors to obtain a lower sentence for a businessman charged with tax fraud; and U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, for felony tax fraud.

Kaminsky noted that he had also prosecuted drug dealer James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond, securing an indictment after Rosemond was captured by agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Agen-

cy after remaining a fugitive for a month.

Two retired police officers, Tom Wilson, who served with the New York Police Department and Suffolk County Police Department, and Chris O’Connor, who was also with the NYPD and Rockville Centre Police Department, were on hand to endorse Kaminsky. They thanked Kaminsky for his bill that provides sick time to people who worked on the rescue, recovery and cleanup following the World Trade Center attacks.

Kaminsky was also endorsed by Curran, who said he would be “a trusted partner in fighting street crime and political corruption” in Nassau.

The three-term state senator is chairman of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee. He is likely to run on his environmental record, as well as his law-enforcement background. Kaminsky has pushed for reforms to the NY Rising system, licensing for mold removal companies and implementation of an information-sharing database in Nassau to help track abandoned properties.

Kaminsky is a familiar figure at events in Long Beach. He is often accompanied by one or both of his children, Rafe and Rory.

His wife mentioned that Kaminsky announced his candidacy for D.A. on Rory’s third birthday.

Born and raised in Long Beach, Kaminsky attended local schools. He succeeded Harvey Weisenberg in the State Assembly in 2014. Weisenberg, 86, was on hand for Kaminsky’s announcement.

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StudentS by row came up to the stage to hear their name read aloud and for them to get their well-earned diploma on Sunday.

Celebrating Elmont High’s class of 2021 Elmont Memorial High School’s class of 2021 gathered together for one last time as high school students before moving on to the next chapter of their lives on Sunday.

The ceremony, which took place at Hofstra University, featured friends and family, in addition to faculty and staff members in the school district.

While last year’s celebration limited participants due to Covid-19 restrictions, many of those restrictions were lifted this time around.

-Nakeem Grant

Graduate andrew andrade got a graduation hug from his brother on leave from the U.S. Army on the graduation stage. elmont memorial HiGH School Principal Kevin Dougherty offered his best wishes to the new graduates, near right.

FriendS and Family screamed and cheered on their graduates, above right. a Graduate Got creative with this Pokémon-themed mortarboard.

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sized the impact the theater is expected to have on the community and the local economy. “Our productions will increase visitors to the area and create job opportunities, which will have a direct economic impact on local businesses,” Harrington said, touting the proximity of the UBS Arena, in Belmont Park, to the theater. “Plaza’s new professional venue will be part of Nassau County’s entertainment hub.”

Curran agreed, and spoke about the role the theater would play in creating jobs for residents of Elmont and its surrounding communities. “It puts people to work, it gives us a certain cachet, and it’s really good for us,” she said.

In addition to Broadway musicals, the year-round programming will feature children’s theater productions, weekday arts and education program for school groups and camps and after-school educational theater arts programs for students in kindergarten through high school.

Harrington pledged that Plaza Theatrical would partner with local nonprofit organizations as well as the Elmont and Sewanhaka school districts to support theater education for all students.

Livingston Young, board president of the Elmont Library, congratulated Harrington and the Plaza organization, and said he was hopeful about their commitment to work with local schools to engage students in theater and the arts.

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Plaza theatrical Producer Kevin F. Harrington, at lectern, was joined by Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, center, and Elmont Library Board President Livingston Young on June 23 to announce the opening of a new musical theater.

“We are extremely delighted to have Plaza Theatrical here in Elmont,” Young said. “We hope the students in our district will take advantage of the shows and internship programs that will be available to them.”

“There are so many wonderful careers for children to explore through the arts,” Curran said. “We welcome culture, we embrace culture, because it makes life more rich.”

“With all these programs,” Harrington said, “the Plaza organization is at the forefront of creating a community of theater enthusiasts and developing new audiences in Nassau County and beyond.”

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He emphasized Plaza Theatrical’s commitment to being part of the resurgence of the arts in post-pandemic Nassau County and to bringing high-quality theater to Elmont residents. “Producing and directing musicals which entertain, educate and inspire is a major part of who I am,” Harrington said. “I look forward to creating the highest level of Broadwaycaliber musicals . . . in order to bring the very best in musical theater to Nassau County.”

“Our mission has always been to bring Broadway shows to people who cannot afford, or no longer get to, Broadway,” said Denise Riven, a representative of

Plaza. “So to be able to do that in this location thrills us.”

Plaza Theatrical, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2022, is set to begin productions at the new theater this fall.

They will include Broadway talent, live orchestras, professional stage designers and the resources of a Broadway casting director, Harrington said.

Information on musicals in 2021-22 will be available on the organization’s new website, www.broadwaylongisland.com, which launches on July 6. Tickets will be available beginning July 13, and can be purchased either online or by calling the box office.

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StudentS congratulated each other at the conclusion of the ceremony on Sunday.

Onward and upward at Carey H.S. Clad in white caps and gowns, the H. Frank Carey High School class of 2021 proudly made their way out to Shuart Stadium at Hofstra University on Sunday, ready to accept their diplomas and take their first steps toward their future.

While last year’s graduation ceremony seemed quite different due to the coronavirus pandemic, Carey was able to continue its tradition of celebrating its leaders of tomorrow.

The Herald congratulates the class of 2021 for the combined efforts and accomplishments of their members and wishes all this year’s graduates the best in whatever ventures and adventures may be next..

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Vincent taVerneSe performed the Star Spangled Banner on a trumpet.

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was engaged in was a really reflective practice, looking at what I’m doing as a teacher and how the students are learnElmont Memorial High School teach- ing,” she said. er Irina Kimyagarov earned a national Kimyagarov realized only later that certification this February from the this personal, reflective aspect of the National Board of Professional Teach- application process helped prepare her ing Standards, a prestigious distinction for the changes to teaching and educaawarded to just 60 teachers statewide tion brought about by the pandemic -and seven teachers on Long Island. namely the transition to teaching stu“It definitely feels like an honor,” dents virtually.

Kimyagarov said. “To be granted this “It was a phenomenal thing to go certification comes with a through right before we hit great sense of accomplishthe pandemic and all learnment; it’s an honor to be ing and teaching went viramong such a small group tual,” Kimyagarov said, of people.” speaking about the work Teachers who applied required for the certificafor the national certification. “Having gone through tion were required to IRIna a whole year of really review teacher portfolios introspective, deep-dive and also submit videos and KImyagaRov looks into what I was doing samples of student work as Teacher, Elmont kind of pre pped me to part of the National Board Memorial High School think about what to do over of Professional Teaching Zoom.”

Standards’ peer-reviewed Despite the changes to assessment process. the educational setting, her “It took a lot of time for things to pro- goal remained the same, Kimyagarov cess and come through,” said Kimyaga- said: “To actually help them (her sturov, who initiated her application in dents) to achieve, to learn.”

2018 but only completed it early last “It was a great opportunity to preyear, just before the coronavirus pan- pare me for the challenges of teaching demic struck New York. “I finally was and learning during Covid,” Kimyagaable to receive my certification this rov said of the introspective work she spring,” Kimyagarov said. did to apply for the national certificaApplying for the certification pre- tion. “I think it made me a little stronsented Kimyagarov with an opportunity ger, a little more confident to proceed to reflect on her goals and the nature of with the changes everyone had to her work as a teacher. “The work that I make.”

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irds have fascinated me since I was a boy growing up in Yaphank, in Suffolk County, in the 1970s. My parents spread birdfeed on our slate-covered cement patio in winter, and we would sit — my mother, father, brother and I — and watch the show from our kitchen as cardinals and house sparrows and blue jays descended en masse, scurrying to snatch the feed out from under one another’s beaks. I kept a journal, counting the different birds that landed.

SCoTT My wife and I continued the traBRINToN dition with our two kids at our Merrick home, spending many Sunday morning breakfasts watching from our dining room as birds landed on our wooden deck, scurrying for breakfast before it was depleted.

At one point, we joined the National Audubon Society, among other environmental groups. Now I’m ashamed to say that I had signed us up for the society, despite believing deeply in its mission to protect and preserve birds.

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learned, is this: The organization’s namesake, John James Audubon (1785-1851), was an unabashed racist who owned slaves. On June 13, The Washington Post published an article that blew my mind — “The racist legacy many birds carry” — examining the racism that was pervasive among many 19th-century ornithologists and noting the slave-holding past of Audubon, the most famous of all bird lovers.

The largely self-taught artist is renowned for his masterfully rendered paintings of North American birds, which he compiled into his world-renowned tome, “The Birds of America,” published in 1827. His objective was to catalog all the birds of North America, which made him famous enough that his name is now synonymous around the globe with environmentalism. For goodness’ sake, there’s a city in Tennessee named for him.

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police last July, the Audubon Society published a series of articles on its website that looked critically at the organization’s namesake and his slave-holding past. In “The Myth of John James Audubon,” Audubon Magazine contributor Gregory Nobles wrote, “Audubon was . . . a slaveholder, a point that many people don’t know or, if they do, tend to ignore or excuse.”

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To be clear, Audubon did not found the organization that bears his name. Harriet Hemenway and Minna B. Hall, of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, formed the national group in 1896 following the slaughter of millions of waterbirds, in particular egrets and waders, for their fine plumage, which was often used to adorn women’s hats.

Only within the past year, however, has the organization really acknowledged the slaveholder that Audubon was. In the November-December 2004 issue of Audubon Magazine, Frank Graham Jr. examined the life of the society’s namesake in “Audubon’s Legacy: Where It All Began,” never mentioning that Audubon had held as many as nine slaves at one point in the early 1800s. Graham did note, however, that Audubon’s father, Jean Audubon, captained a French cargo ship that traded in rum, sugar and slaves on its “rounds from France to various Caribbean and U.S. ports.”

The article contained one additional slavery reference. Alan Gehret, whom the piece described as a “walking encyclopedia of Auduboniana,” was quoted as saying, “Slave revolts threatened the planters in Haiti, and Jean Audubon wanted to take his children to France and raise them as French citizens.” That was it.

If Gehret, a former museum curator

he first high-profile lover of birds was also an unapologetic slaveholder.

with the Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Pa., was such an encyclopedia of all things Audubon, how did he miss the fact that John James Audubon was a slaveholder? And imagine that — Gehret spoke of potential slave revolts as threatening white people — but failed to acknowledge the daily existential threats faced by Black slaves, who could have been flogged or hanged from a tree at a moment’s notice. Gehret’s statement is racist, intentional or not.

There have been calls for the Audubon Society to change its name. I agree. It should be changed. That would be the only way I might consider rejoining in the future. Only through a name change could the group disassociate itself with its racist namesake, who, according to Nobles, dismissed the abolitionist movement in the United States and Great Britain.

Why does all this matter? Simply put, we mustn’t worship racists and slaveholders. We mustn’t place them on pedestals.

We must confront the twisted, demonic history that they represent.

Confronting our nation’s racist past is not cancel culture. It’s the start of the healing process.

Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication.

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Five-day tour of the Big Apple’s thrills and chills

f you’re going to jump in, then jump.

That was my thinking during these post-vaccine weeks when I suggested a five-day stay in Manhattan to my California kid and her kid. We hadn’t seen each other in many months. On one hand, it was counterintuitive to stay in the Big Apple amid reports of untidy streets, menacing street people and closed venues.

It made sense, though, to throw support and money to the city we love, and also benefit from lower hotel rates.

We would pick a hotel and do all the RANDI sites we could fit in KREISS to the time we had.

She would fly into JFK. A foreversuburbanite, I would actually sleep in the city that never sleeps, which makes sense because I never sleep anymore.

We did it, last week, and I’m here to tell you that we took a big bite of the Big Apple, and it is still delicious. We saw the city, not as longtime New Yorkers, or commuters, which we have always been, but as visitors. In midtown, the tourists were

surging. The Empire State Building, which had a line around the block by day, looked brilliant at sundown, its spire blazing into the sky. Restaurants in Tribeca and Soho featured blocks and blocks of outdoor seating. The romance of the city felt real and familiar.

My main impression: It’s a dog’s life. Our four-legged friends are everywhere, from the Bowery to Brooklyn, on the streets, in restaurants and in our hotel. I expect every city across America is experiencing the all-dogs-all-the-time phenomenon following the worst of the pandemic, when we craved the comfort of fluffy fur and puppy breath. We stayed at Hotel 50 Bowery, with views of the Manhattan Bridge, and it was perfect, since we’re kind of downtown people.

I know the Chinese community suffered during Covid, but the area is surging back, street markets are open, with piles of mangoes and cherries and every variety of lichi and bok choy on display. Everyone wears masks, and although masks were optional in our hotel, most travelers chose to stay safer.

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We walked many miles every day. We trekked over the Brooklyn Bridge to Dumbo, walked through Tribeca, strolled through Little Italy every night for dessert, and ate outside nearly every meal because we were blessed with early-June balmy days and nights.

We took the subway uptown to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, where people are coming back in droves. More than the art itself, being part of going to a museum, and sharing the viewing experience, was uplifting and restorative. This is who we are, I thought, not denizens of lonely and isolated places.

The city is coming alive again, but it isn’t there yet. All the boarded-up restaurants and stores, from downtown to uptown, offer testament to the suffering of this past year and a half. The eateries that have opened are packed, but most of them still have a way to go. Service is uneven, everyone is “newly hired” and most places still need more help.

Many are only semi-open. But there’s a new and hopefully enduring spirit of generosity for those who are learning the

e took a big bite of a city that’s coming alive again, but isn’t quite there yet.

business and those who are slowly bringing their businesses back to life.

We went to the immersive Van Gogh experience downtown on Vesey Street. It was stunning and dreamy and felt completely safe. We wore masks and lay on the floor and let the flickering projected images of Van Gogh’s paintings wash over us.

The next day we saw “Starry Night” at MOMA. We walked around the Battery for hours, with thousands of other visitors.

The Statue of Liberty and the Verrazzano and the sails of boats in the Hudson offered the perfect backdrop. The greenery of the Battery and the benches throughout the trails offer a peaceful place for a walk or a timeout.

Of course, it was a dog show as well, with every size and shape pup walking their humans along the paths.

Strolling toward our hotel from the Battery, we stopped at the 9/11 Memorial. It has been 19 years, and I have never been able to bring myself to the site. But something is changed now. We are emerging from a season of epic suffering, and it felt cathartic to honor the memory of others who were lost in our great city.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. e has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at

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places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness of his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislature.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their acts of pretended legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Government: For suspending our own legislature, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People.

Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. e, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor.

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The Declaration was signed first by John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress, and then by 55 others representing the 13 original states.

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our milestones were reached in June on the road to racial equity.

They recognize progress while underscoring the distance yet to be traveled. They came at the federal, state and county levels, and all have significant implications for Long Island.

One was the designation of Juneteenth, June 19, as a national holiday.

As the White House Proclamation states, “On Juneteenth, we recommit ourselves to the work of equity, equality and justice.”

ERASE Racism is eLaine dedicated to that work, and the Gross nation still has a great deal to accomplish.

In another milestone, the Biden administration acted decisively to advance fair housing when it announced on June 1 that it was taking steps to address racial discrimination in the housing market. Those steps include forwarding to Congress the administration’s proposed interim final rule on the legal duty to affirmatively further fair housing. In the words of the White House, the steps will “align federal enforce-

ment practice with the congressional promise in the Fair Housing Act to end discrimination in housing and will collectively provide the legal framework for [the Department of Housing and Urban Development] to require private and public entities alike to rethink established practices that contribute to or perpetuate inequities.”

The mandate to affirmatively further fair housing by actively proposing policies and practices to eliminate housing discrimination is contained in the Fair Housing Act of 1968. But the federal government’s commitment to that mandate was undermined substantially by the Trump administration.

President Biden is undoing that damage, but the federal government’s commitment to fair housing should not vary from one administration to another.

That commitment is core to addressing racial inequity.

As the Center for American Progress states, “For centuries, structural racism in the U.S. housing system has contributed to stark and persistent racial disparities in wealth and financial well-being, especially between Black and white households. In fact, these differences are so entrenched that if current trends continue, it could

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take more than 200 years for the average Black family to accumulate the same amount of wealth as its white counterparts.”

New York state also took significant steps in June to address racial discrimination in housing, as the Legislature approved seven bills to that end. Among other actions, the legislation doubles the maximum fine imposed on real estate brokers and salespeople who violate the law, and adds a surcharge to the licensing fee paid by real estate brokers and salespeople; directs funding from those sources to be used by the attorney general for fair housing testing and other grants to local agencies and nonprofits to fight housing discrimination; requires additional training for the licensing of brokers and salespeople and renewing those licenses; and establishes that all state and local agencies that administer state housing programs, and all organizations that receive state housing funds, are obliged to “affirmatively further fair housing.”

All seven bills were recommended in the Senate majority’s investigative report on fair housing and discrimination on Long Island, issued in January by Senators

rom the federal recognition of Juneteenth to a Fair Housing Task Force on L.I.

Letters Vigilance is essential in fair-housing fight To the Editor: I applaud the State Assembly for overwhelmingly voting June 8 to approve legislation to confront the scourge of housing discrimination.

Assemblywoman Kimberly Jean-Pierre sponsored and secured passage of a measure that would both increase fines against those who commit discrimination and reinvest those funds into equity-boosting causes.

Under her innovative approach, the statewide anti-housing discrimination fund would support local housing nonprofits, human rights commissions and the state attorney general’s office as it conducts fairhousing challenges to identify and eliminate this pernicious behavior.

This recent action by the state is one of many important actions consistent with our shared mission to ensure that everyone has fair and equal opportunities to take part in New York’s housing market.

As part of Nassau County’s response to the publication of Newsday’s “Long Island Divided” housing discrimination exposé, I sponsored and secured passage of legislation that created the county’s Housing Discrimination Hotline in 2019. If you or your loved ones ever experience illegal discrimination in Nassau, I urge you to call (888) 4120474 and file a report immediately. The phone lines are open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Brian Kavanagh, James Skoufis and Kevin Thomas — all committee chairs — following an extensive inquiry and two public hearings, at which I was invited twice to testify. All three senators deserve great credit for leading this initiative. Enactment and implementation of the legislation will ultimately determine its impact.

Long Island remains one of the 10 most racially segregated metropolitan regions in the U.S., and Suffolk County has taken an important step to address that. Its Fair Housing Task Force, of which I was a member, presented its report to the County Legislature on June 16. The report recommends new protections in Suffolk County human rights law; increased support for the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission, including funding for fair housing testing and increased funding for administrative law judges; and other recommendations, findings and determinations, including the creation of an advisory rating system for real estate licensees.

These are important developments at all levels of government. Further action is needed to implement these changes, and with time we can measure their impact.

The United States, New York and Long Island still have a long way to go to achieve racial equity.

Elaine Gross is president of the Syosset-based civil rights organization ERASE Racism.

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I remain committed to doing all I can to eliminate the pervasive segregation that has been allowed to fester on Long Island for generations, and invite you to join me in this effort.

ARNOLD W. DRUCKER Nassau County legislator Plainview

Brinton knows his local wild places To the Editor: Re Scott Brinton’s column “Suburban Long Island getting wilder by the day” (June 17-23): I enjoyed and was encouraged by this terrific and informative column covering what is wild on Long Island. What was wonderful was how Brinton made the column personal.

I enjoyed the history of people and places that have made the Island a destination, and was thrilled with Brinton’s inclusion of the many talented folks who continue their good work to preserve its environment.

My wife, Karen, an actress, and I, a musician, have been involved with the Seatuck Environmental Association from its beginning in the 1980s. Karen facilitates the Long Island Nature Writers there.

Enrico Nardone, Seatuck’s executive director, is the very gift the place needs to survive. Wildlife biologist Mike Bottini, Seatuck conservation policy analyst Emily Hall and state wildlife biologist Kelly Hamil-

Lavender, at a garden swap — Franklin Square

ton, all mentioned in Brinton’s column, are fabulous about using their time, energy and talents. Long Islanders should know them.

The Island is blessed with an abundance of natural resources that deserve to be saved and protected. I believe Brinton’s column served to highlight that.

I volunteer with the North Shore Land Alliance, which, through stewardship, manages 15 nature preserves on the North Shore. Humes Preserve, where you

can find blue birds, Iselin Preserve, where there are owls, and Cushman Woods are home to the wild.

The Herald should each week highlight not just Garvies Point Museum and Preserve in Glen Cove or Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, but also celebrate the many other beautiful places with an article of the quality of Brinton’s column.

KEN KRUMENACKER Sea Cliff

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