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AN ospREY AppRoACHED its nest on a hassock in the Western Bays last July. Both shore wildlife and area fishing industries depend on the restoration of bay water health.
To lifelong Freeporter and Operation SPLASH President Rob Weltner, 23 years isn’t too long if it means the campaign for the renewal of the Western Bays is on track for victory. “We started in 1999,” Weltner said in a recent interview. “It didn’t happen overnight.” The Western Bays, which supply much of the marine life for Freeport’s fishing industry, have been dying for decades. The campaign to reverse the dying process is what started in 1999. The victory achieved is a
massive infrastructure redo known as the Bay Park Conveyance Project. When the project is completed in 2023, treated wastewater from the South Shore Water Reclamation Facility, in East Rockaway’s Bay Park, will be conveyed along a 15-mile pipeline to the ocean outfall pipe at the Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant. The state Department of Environmental Conservation is partnering on the project with the Nassau County Department of Public Works. The immensity of the projContinued on page 15
It’s official: Cow Meadow Park belongs to Freeport By REINE BEtHANY rbethany@liherald.com
Surrounded by village, county and state dignitaries, Mayor Robert Kennedy cut the red ribbon on Feb. 18 that symbolized the transfer of ownership of Cow Meadow Park from Nassau County to the Village of Freeport. “A special thanks to Senator John Brooks, Assemblywoman Taylor Darling and Assemblywoman Judy Griffin for walking this legislation through both houses in Albany,” Kennedy said before cutting the ribbon. He also thanked the Nassau County Legislature, especially Legisla-
tor Steve Rhoads, a Republican from Bellmore, who represents part of Freeport, and County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who executed the transfer of title within a few weeks after being elected. A frigid wind whipped women’s hair around their faces and men’s slacks around their legs, though the day was sunny. A golden retriever named Murray stood beside Kennedy, barking inter mittently during his speech, while Recreation Director Victoria Dinielli held Murray’s leash. He barked loudest when Kennedy listed a dog run among the projected improvements planned by the village (see
box, Page 4). Rhoads said, “The Village of Freeport is in the best position to be able to transform and help this park realize the full potential of its 36 acres. . . . With Mayor Kennedy’s vision, this is going to be a beautiful spot for the residents of the Village of Freeport to enjoy for many, many years to come. And with that, I would like to take a moment to ceremonially turn over the key.” Rhoads held an ordinarysized key high for all to see, shook hands with Kennedy and grandly gave him the key, accompanied by laughter and applause. Darling, a Democrat from
Hempstead who sponsored the bill for the land transfer in the State Legislature, and co-sponsor Griffin, a Democrat from Rockville Centre, both thanked Kennedy for his persistence for at least a decade, trying to effect the transfer. Their words were echoed by Michael Reed, a spokesman for Brooks. Chamber of Commerce Presi-
dent Ben Jackson recalled when Cow Meadow Park was under construction. “I remember having dirt bomb fights right where we’re standing,” Jackson said. “I’d like to extend my thanks to everybody involved in making this happen, especially Mayor Kennedy, and he did it without raising our taxes!” Continued on page 4
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Black History Month program included a Q&A with Russell Fearon By Reine Bethany rbethany@liherald.com
The Woodward Children’s Center at 201 Merrick Road in Freeport annually studies Black heroes for Black History Month. Executive Director Greg Ingino and Principal Danielle Colucci also find speakers who will engage the students. This year, the speaker was Russell Fearon, a Syracuse University graduate who co-invented a prize-winning health device. The students, who are middle and high school age, listened attentively as Fearon, 23, narrated his story of discovering at age 21 that he was diabetic. To be diabetic meant he had to take out equipment and test his blood sugar if he wanted to eat anything sugary – even a cookie. Fe a ro n w a s then completing his bachelor’s of science degree in mechanical engineering. His friend Ricardo Sanchez was an industrial and interactive design Russell major. Through Syracuse UniverFeaRon sity’s Invent@SU CEO, program, the two SugEx created a wristwatch and a mobile app that could monitor blood glucose levels for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes sufferers, and for those with a prediabetic condition as well – and do it far more elegantly than the traditional finger stick jab. They entered their invention in major contests. Fearon captured first prize – $50,000 dollars – in the American Heart Association’s EmPOWERED to Serve Business Accelerator Competition in October 2019. He and Sanchez together won a $5,000 cash prize at the 2021 ACC InVenture Prize Competition, Syracuse edition. They founded their own firm, SugEx, to help drive their invention toward manufacture. Fearon finished his master’s degree in bioengineering and biomedical engineering in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns. After his speech at Woodward, Fearon fielded one question after another from the students. Was his invention like the Apple watch? What was it like to be diabetic? To have your own business? At last, he finished and the Woodward students proceeded to deliver their class presentations of Black heroes they had studied, such as Ernestine Shepherd, who is 86 and still enters bodybuilding competitions. In a post-program interview, Fearon discussed his journey to prize-winning entrepreneurship. He credited his parents and the Freeport middle school that he attended, the De La Salle School at 87 Pine Street,
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WoodWaRd students listened attentively to Russell Fearon, and then peppered him with questions about diabetes and his SugEx invention.
inventoR Russell FeaRon explained his SugEx watch for the Black History Month program at Woodward Children’s Center Feb. 18, while Woodward Executive Director Greg Ingino looked on. with steering him toward sustained educational development. “I love De La Salle,” Fearon said. “I practiced leadership because of [thenExecutive Director] Brother Thomas [P. Casey] and Kevin Rall, who are no longer there. I was president of my eighth-grade class. They didn’t call it leadership, exactly. They called it being a gentleman.” Fearon took the poise and discipline he learned at De La Salle to a difficult but successful four years at Chaminade High School. “I really struggled in some of those classes,” Fearon said, “until my junior and senior year when I seriously figured what focus was, and focus wasn’t hanging out with a lot of people.”
aFteR FeaRon’s lectuRe, each Woodward class presented its hero.
Fearon knew no own study of a Black one expected him to average 90 or above, but in his junior year, “Once I kind of set that as a desire, something I wanted to do, I went and got it.” Being just about the only Black student at Chaminade had its ups and downs, Fearon said, but, “I overcame. The right decision was to remove myself from some of the negativity, from those who didn’t really accept me for me, and put myself in a situation where I was just going to be my best self.” Though his “best self ” carried him to the prize-winning collaboration with Sanchez, after graduating with his master’s, Fearon has found that fundraising to get
his invention manufactured has been tough. He and girlfriend Tiffany Gerald, who holds a degree in communications and historical studies and a certificate in project management, are now finding that so soon after graduation, even their high qualifications don’t assure them the right job, right away. “Most of the time it takes a little while after you graduate to get somewhere you want to be,” Gerald said, “so it can be a rollercoaster after graduating college.” Fearon agreed. “At first, you may have to work for less than what maybe you’re worth, or twhat he work you do is worth,” he said. “You just have to make it happen.”
Village now owns Cow Meadow Park continued from front page Addressing questions about safety, Kennedy said, “Unfortunately, when the park was operated by Nassau County, the First Precinct would have to respond, and it was very hard for them to get over here when they were out on other jobs. Now that the Village of Freeport police are dedicated to patrolling this area, I’d say there will be a Freeport officer here 90 percent of the time.” Freeport Police Chief Michael Smith added, “We plan on increasing security cameras, lighting, sensing and patrols throughout the park. The residents will feel a substantial increase in police presence.” Asked where the $2.5 million would come from in the village budget, Kennedy responded, “This administration had $1.2 million nine years ago. We now have $24 million in our reserves . . . and we haven’t had a tax increase in nine years. We’re going to continue that policy and we’re going to use some of our reserve money to do these developments.” Construction on the renovations will start the week of Feb. 28, and will be handled in sections, so the park will at no point be closed completely. The majority of the work, Kennedy said, should be finished by midsummer.
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MAyOR RObERT KENNEDy cut the ribbon for the official opening of Cow Meadow Park as a village-owned space. “We’re going to do these renovations,” said Kennedy, “and make this the best park in Nassau County.” Have an opinion on Cow Meadow Park? Send a letter to rbethany@liherald.com.
A brief history of Cow Meadow Park
Coming soon to the park
Nassau County opened Cow Meadow Park in 1970. It was touted as much for its wetlands preserve and nature trail as for its recreation facilities and marina. The park was brutalized by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and the county never fully restored it. The safety of the park came into question because law enforcement agencies have twice discovered human remains in the park’s nature preserve. Mayor Kennedy and Freeport Police Chief Michael Smith have promised a near-constant Freeport police presence.
Mayor Robert Kennedy listed the $2.5 million worth of planned upgrades: a beach with lifeguards and chairs; protected swimming area; new solar lighting throughout; a rebuilt 50-slip boat marina; a concession stand; replacement of fencing and all entrance gates; rebuilt sports field; a dog run. The park will also boast basketball, tennis courts, handball and pickle courts, barbecue pits with picnic tables, soccer fields, an illuminated baseball field, a recreation rental room, a playground, a spray park, and an updated wildlife preserve.
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Pastor Donnie McClurkin of Perfecting Faith Church has opened the church’s building at 311 N. Main St. for a series of pop-up vaccine and testing clinics as a resource for church members and an outreach to the surrounding community. The clinic administers three COVID-19 vaccines: Moderna for ages 18 and older, Pfizer for ages 12 and up, and Pfizer’s pediatric vaccine for children ages 5-11. In addition, free COVID tests are administered, and flu shots are available. Last Saturday, the church’s community relations liaison, Deborah Payton-Jones, worked with her grown daughter, Dominique Jones, at the intake table in the vast room that serves as the worship sanctuary as well as a flexible concert and activity center. “We put a sign out front on clinic days,” Payton-Jones said, “so people walking by will see it. Many people around her don’t have vehicles, but need accessible COVID services. When we restart regular evangelical outreach and prayer days, whoever comes to those can also access the clinic.” Payton-Jones guided patrons through registration for the COVID PCR swab test, and then through the test itself. The results are sent securely via email. Records can be stored in one’s smartphone. The clinic is the brainchild of a medical entrepreneur named Johonniuss Chemweno, who grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He started his company, Inverse Medical, with the goal of making medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare services accessible to underserved populations. One branch of his enterprise is VIP Star Network, which primarily provides services for locations commonly used for filming movies throughout
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heRald jouRnalist Reine Bethany received her Moderna vaccine booster from nurse Valentina Valencia. New Mexico. VIP Star Network has arranged a contract with New York State to improve access to those services in the New York Metropolitan area. “Our doctors and nurses bring pop-up clinics on weekends, nights, and early mornings, so there will be no barriers to vaccines and testing,” said Dr. Sandra Bonat, M.D., who was overseeing the clinic at Perfecting Faith Church. “Our CEO [Chemweno] is passionate about access to medical care. He is developing an app so patients can find care, find facilities that take their insur-
ance, and schedule appointments with specialists.’ “Our mobile van is self-contained,” explained Raven Bagy, one of the nurses. “We serve schools, harm reduction centers, housing projects, and transient populations – anywhere that they have space for us.” “We’ve been to every borough except Staten Island,” said nurse Valentina Valencia, who lives in Queens. Her co-worker, Sophia Mejia, is from Long Island. “VIP Star Network has some events in Suffolk, too,” she said. “I went with the mobile van to Copiague. The van has been to Central Islip and Brentwood, too.” The two nurses administered vaccines as patients trickled steadily in. Venetia Moore, a Perfecting Faith member who lives in Queens, had brought her grown god-daughter and the god-daughter’s toddler to the clinic. “I am so glad that our pastors chose to do this,” said Moore. “I attend this church, and I’m really happy that we have a community focus, that we care about what’s going on and that we’re on the cutting edge of helping people to walk through this pandemic.” Perfecting Faith has strictly observed the state and CDC guidelines for COVID closures and reopening. Currently, for attending services and events in-person, the church requires proof of a negative COVID test done within the past two weeks. Masks are required. Attendance at services may also be accomplished via Zoom. The certificate Moore received for testing negative will be good for the next two Sundays. “This week, I was able to bring my godchild and let her get her booster, which she needed,” said Moore, “and she was able to get the PCR test and all that. So this is an amazing thing.” Two more pop-up clinics are planned for March 5 and March 12. For more detailed information, contact the church at (516) 223-0047.
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Thursday, March 3
Dominican Republic Independence Day
Special story time with Miss Rose at the library
Zumba Gold for adults
The Nassau County Office of Hispanic Affairs and the Office of Minority Affairs both invite the public to celebrate the Independence of the Dominican Republic at 6:00 p.m. at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building, 1550 Franklin Ave., Mineola. Selected honorees will be recognized, in honor of the spirit of leadership and contributions to our community by Dominicans. The event will be streamed live on Facebook and YouTube. Call the Office of Hispanic Affairs at (516) 572-0750 for information.
From 10-10:30 a.m., join Ms. Rose for a special story time with a different theme each week. For ages 2 to 4 and an accompanying adult. Please call the library Youth Services department, (516) 379-3274, or come into the Children’s Room to register at 144 W. Merrick Road.
Nassau BOCES ESL Classes From 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., and 6-8 p.m. today, Wednesday, and Thursday,, Nassau Boces conducts ESL classes through the library. Call the ASK Department, (516) 379-3274, or email ask@ freeportlibrary.info.
Alcoholics Anonymous at the library From 5:30-6:30 p.m., on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Alcoholics Anonymous meets at the Freeport Memorial Library. Contact Marilyn Pignataro, mpignataro@freeportlibrary.info or (516) 379-3274.
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Dominican Independence Day with Nassau County The public is invited to a celebration of Dominican Republic Independence Day with Nassau County at 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 25. Please see the calendar for details.
From 6-6:45 p.m. via Zoom through the Freeport Memorial Library, for grades 5-12, test your knowledge in multiple subjects including music, movies, and more! Call or email (516) 379-3274 or youthservices@freeportlibrary.info.
registration. A valid New York State driver’s license is required. Contact Marilyn Pignataro, mpignataro@freeportlibrary. info or (516) 379-3274.
Bell Sylvester Recital Series
Tai chi for adults [virtual]
From 7-8 p.m., come to the Freeport Memorial Library for the winter opening of our Friday night Arts Concert Series, with countertenor Andrew Egbuchiem singing songs from America to Nigeria as well as famous classical music pieces. This live program is also available through Zoom on the library’s website. Contact tmitchell@freeportlibrary.info or (516) 379-3274.
Saturday, Feb. 26 Defensive driving at the library From 9:15 a.m. - 3:15 pm., conducted by NY Safety Driving. Cost: $30 by check or money order payable to TAAH Inc. (no cash). Register in person. Enrollment is limited. Payment is due at
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From 10-11 a.m., join a program that is designed to improve the health and balance of the practitioner. Contact Maryellen Cantanno at mcantanno@freeport library.info or call (516) 379-3274).
Literacy Nassau citizenship classes [at the library] This test-prep class will help students study for the civics portion of the citizenship exam. Contact the ASK Dept. at the library, (516) 379-3274, or ask@ freeportlibrary.info.
Sunday, Feb. 27 Unbossed and unbowed [virtual] From 2:30-3:30 p.m., view this onewoman immersive and interactive
solo show about Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman to run for the presidency. She was called the Black Joan of Arc; she called herself Fighting Shirley. Please watch the performance at https://youtu.be/ n7hS0ktbw1A. Contact mcantanno@ freeportlibrary.info, or call (516) 379-3274.
Yoga for adults [virtual] From 6-7 p.m. through the library, this on-the-mat centered hatha yoga class is suitable for beginner and experienced yoga practitioners; we focus on breathing, stretching, and strength building. For the GoToMeeting link, contact Maryellen Cantanno, mcanntanno@ freeportlibrary.info or (516) 379-3274.
Quilting [at the library] From 2-3 p.m., join Jessica Alexandrakis, author of “Quilting on the Go,” as she teaches this very simple and addictive hand-piecing technique. There is a nonrefundable fee of $6 for the supply kit payable at the time of registration at the ASK Desk. Contact Maryellen Cantanno, (516) 379-3274, or mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info.
Freeport Schools art reception From 2-4 p.m., come view the “By Their Own Hands” art exhibition by Freeport’s pre-K to grade 6. Contact Tanisha Mitchell, tmitchell@freeportlibrary.info or (516) 379-3274.
Filling our hearts with love [virtual] From 6:30-7:30 pm., learn through meditation how to let go of anger, fear and worry. Contact ask@freeportlibrary. info, or (516) 379-3274.
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From 1-2 p.m., as part of our Current Events in Perspective series, Morton Kugal offers his insightful perspective on the people and events that shape our world today. Audience participation is encouraged. Contact Maryellen Cantanno, mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info or (516) 379-3274.
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From 4-4:45 p.m., here’s your chance to win some prizes as we play Jeopardy. For grades 5 and 6. Preregistration is required. Please call the Freeport Memorial Library at (516) 379-3274, or come into the Children’s Room to register, 144 W. Merrick Road.
From 9:30-10:30 a.m., courtesy of the Freeport Memorial Library. Contact Maryellen Cantanno, (516) 379-3274, or mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info.
From 2-5 p.m., social work intern Hudson Joachim will be in the library lobby to provide assistance with social service needs. Reach Hudson in English, Spanish, French, or Creole, at socialworkintern@freeportlibrary.info, ask@ freeportlibrary.info or (516) 379-3274.
Zumba for adults [virtual] From 6:30-7:30 p.m., through the library via Zoom. Contact 516) 3793274, or ask@freeportlibrary.info.
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The AHRC Work Center on Hanse Ave. has helped adults with disabilities find work for 50 years. Hungerford & Clark Funeral Home is now owned by Carmine and Michael Carpinone. Black-owned Value Precision Inc. was featured on Economic Forum, WTHE-AM 1520, in 1992. Led by Chief Joe Shapira, Freeport has New York State’s largest all-volunteer fire department. Freeport residents drink naturally purified water drawn from Freeport’s own fresh-water aquifer.
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T u e s d ay i s generally not a popular day of the week to get mar ried. T his year, however, it’s the go-“two” date. Town Clerk Kate Murray presided over 22 weddings on Tuesday, 2-2222, helping to provide memories that are sure to last a lifetime. “A c o u p l e ’s wedding day is Courtesy Office Town Clerk Kate Murray always a special day of the year, town Clerk kate Murray married Freeport residents Steven but these 22 cou- Haripershad and Allysha Veeria on Feb. 22. ples will certainly have an especially ray led the way on many amazing town memorable experience on this once-in-a- programs and services that became a lifetime date,” said Murray. “The Town of model for future initiatives, and she has Hempstead is proud to play a small part in carried that incredible leadership to the the lives of these loving couples as they Town Clerk’s Office,” said Supervisor Don take their vows, and I wish them much Clavin, who attended the event. health and happiness in the future.” Murray has implemented several ways The nuptials took place in the historic to continue the service of officiating wedcourtroom at Old Town Hall, a building dings during the pandemic. She has marlisted on the National Register of Historic ried hundreds of couples via FaceTime, Places. The room was decorated with bal- Zoom, and over the phone. She has also loons shaped in the number 2, and couples conducted socially distanced, in-person were given cookies shaped in the number ceremonies and presided over outdoor 2, helping add to the festive and fun atmo- “destination weddings” at Point Lookout sphere of the day. Beach, Lido Beach Passive Nature Pre“When she was Supervisor, Kate Mur- serve and other town facilities.
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Nassau County Le gislator Debra Mulé (D - Freeport) joined her colleagues in governm e n t at N a s s a u County’s David S. Mack Center for Training and Intelligence on Wednesday, Feb. 16, to celebrate the graduation of 158 new Nassau County Police Department officers and three Nassau County Police Medics. Among the graduates hailing from the Fifth Legislative District are Nassau County Police Officer Aaron Butcher, of Courtesy Office of Legislator Debra Mulé Baldwin, and Freeport Village Police Freeport native alFredo Ruiz graduated from the David S. Department Officer Mack Center for Training and Intelligence. Alfredo Ruiz, of Freeport. said. “It was truly an honor and a privi“On a daily basis, Nassau County’s lege to be on hand to witness the culmioutstanding law enforcement profession- nation of so many months of hard work als work tirelessly -- and often without and dedication, and I wish each of these fanfare -- to protect residents and keep graduates safety and success as they our communities safe,” Legislator Mulé serve the public.”
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Phillips announces audit of tax reassessment
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By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com
Nassau County Comptroller Elaine Phillips said she will begin an audit of the Department of Assessment on Feb. 15. Joined by County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who campaigned on transparency and change for the reassessment, Phillips reiterated her own promise to independently investigate the reassessment process and how to improve it. The audit will be Phillips’ first as comptroller and will focus on better understanding the re-assessment done under former County Executive Laura Curran in order to make changes going forward. Phillips said that the first task will be to audit the 2021 tax roll to see the methodology and process that was done for the mass appraisal. “When you go in and do an audit, you have to keep an open mind,” Phillips said. “Depending on the information that you find, the audit could evolve.” Phillips said the audit will seek to discover whether exemptions were applied correctly and how the five-year phase in may have affected the tax roll. In March 2020, the Legislature passed the Reassessment Phase-In Act with a fiveyear phase in for changes to a homeowner’s assessed value from their 2019-20 market value to the 2020-21 roll. An exemption base was then to be determined by taking the increase and multiplying it by .1 percent. In the first year of the reassessment,
Nassau CouNTy CompTroller Elaine Phillips said she will begin her independent audit of the tax reassessment.
CouNTy exeCuTive BruCe Blakeman, center, promised to keep his office and the Legislature out of the audit process.
80 percent of the exemption base was to be subtracted from a homeowner’s total assessment. Each year the percentage was to drop by 20 percent until the new values were fully implemented in 2024-25. Blakeman said that he has found identical properties in places like Massapequa, where one home was assessed at 40 percent more than another. “My predecessor engaged in a reassessment that wasn’t transparent and wasn’t done in a way that was fair to all the residents of Nassau County,” he said. “And because it wasn’t transparent, we still don’t know everything that went wrong.” Blakeman said that the information that comes from Phillips’ reports will be
relied upon heavily for a decision-making process. He also said that the county executive’s office and the Legislature will have no input, which will enable Phillips to have an independent review. Legislator Steve Rhoads, the chair of the new legislative committee for assessments, was also in attendance with vice chair Legislator John Ferretti. “What we wanted as a legislative majority was a process that was fair, that was accurate, and that was transparent,” Rhoads said. “Unfortunately, what we received over the course of the last four years was anything but.” Rhoads decried a lack of transparency during Curran’s administration, which
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saw many homeowners sue to find out how the algorithm used by the Department of Assessment calculated their home’s value. Phillips cautioned that this audit would take time, as the audit of the assessment review commission was published in December 2021 after three and a half years. She said she plans to have her department publish a report after they complete their review of the 2021 tax roll but could not provide a timetable. “I’m committed to transparency,” Phillips said. “I have my slogan that I am the independent protector of our taxpayers and I promise the people of Nassau County that I will live up to that.”
Electeds rejoice in ADU victory over Hochul mwilson@liherald.com
Gov. Kathy Hochul has pulled a proposal intended to allow single-family homeowners to more easily rent out rooms and basements from her state budget, putting an end — at least for now — the controversial proposal that met with considerable opposition from local leaders. Those same leaders gathered outside an East Meadow home last Friday to celebrate the governor’s decision. Raheel Ahmad, who lives on the same street, told reporters he’s grateful housing on Long Island — where he relocated his family from Brooklyn six years ago — will stay the same. “It feels amazing,” Ahmad said. “This is why I moved here. I’m thankful for the elected officials who raised up for the residents and got a victory for us.” Hochul’s proposal would have allowed for the creation of “accessory dwelling units” — basements, attics, garages and the like which could be renovated and turned into a separate apartment unit. Hochul included ADUs as part of a broader $25 billion, five-year plan that was part of an effort to preserve up to 100,000 affordable homes across the state. “In the wake of the pandemic, it’s crucial that we tackle the housing crisis and make New York a more affordable place for all,” Hochul said at the time. Hochul wanted to require municipali-
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officials gather outside of a home in East Meadow to celebrate Gov. Kathy Hochul taking the single-family zoning proposal — which would have potentially allowed owners of single-family homes to rent out spare rooms and basements — out of the state budget. ties to allow at least one ADU on owneroccupied residentially zoned lots, leaving details like size requirements and safety standards to individual local governments. It also would have created an amnesty program in New York City to allow for existing ADUs — where such a practice already is prominent — to be made legal. Yet, Hochul’s plan has been widely criticized, especially locally, where officials claimed it would put a strain on Long Island resources — and be an end to suburbia. Thousands signed online petitions
against the proposal, according to Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin. “The biggest investment in someone’s life is buying a house in the suburbs,” he said. “The governor’s attempt by throwing this in the budget to eliminate single housing is wrong.” Hochul’s plan would have removed “home rule,” Clavin added, meaning local governments could not determine zoning based on the character of the community and the wishes of those who live and work around it. Zoning provisions are already in place
intended to provide accessory apartments for senior citizens, and for parents looking to provide their adult children some independence, while still keeping them close to home. County legislator Tom McKevitt is the one who says he found the ADU proposal buried deep inside the 5,000-page budget. The opposition organized on Long Island is something he described as a great example of people at all levels of government coming together to preserve their quality of life. “We’re putting forth the word to the governor and to state representatives, ‘Do not try this again,’” McKevitt said. “’Do not put it in there. We’re going to be watching and protecting our communities.’” Although the governor has the state constitutional power to add policy to the budget process without much legislative oversight, Hochul’s attempt to add ADUs to the state through that process says all Town Councilman Chris Carini needs to know about the strength of the proposal. “This bill could not pass on its merits as a standalone bill and was hidden in the budget to force its passage,” Carini said, in a statement. “This was the same tactic used to pass bail reform. I was proud to join with other local officials to expose this smash and grab of our local zoning.” Brendan Carpenter contributed to this article.
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Stop & Shop unveiled its newly remodeled store on 905 Atlantic Ave. on Feb. 11. The store is now noticeably brighter and more modern and offers new features are centered around delivering fresh, healthy, and convenient options to make grocery shopping easier. “We’re excited to share our newly remodeled store with our local shoppers,” said Sal Colella, Store Manager of Stop & Shop Baldwin. “We’ve added more of what our customers want and upgrades they need to get their shopping done faster and get back to what matters most.” The store continues to offer Pickup, customers can place an order on the Stop & Shop mobile app or visit www. stopandshop.com, click on “Order Online” and select “Pickup” at the Baldwin store. Customers can then head to the store and have a Stop & Shop associate load their groceries right into their car. Shoppers participated in giveaways from Feb. 11-13, along with an appearance by Giants Legend Jeff Feagles who signed autographs on Saturday, Feb. 12. A neighborhood grocer for more than 100 years, Stop & Shop offers a wide assortment with a focus on fresh, healthy options at a great value. The company is committed to making an impact in its communities by fighting hunger, supporting our troops,
Remodeled Baldwin store includes: ■ New grab-and-go meal solutions, including hot foods bar featuring freshly packed entrees and sides, sushi made fresh daily, and a flatbread pizza station ■ Enhanced produce department offering more ways to eat healthy ■ Remodeled bakery department complete with delicious cakes, cupcakes and other treats ■ Upgraded seafood and meat departments featuring fresh filets and choice cuts ■ Organic and natural products integrated within the grocery aisles ■ Upgraded front-end with a new service counter and self-checkout registers and investing in pediatric cancer research to help find a cure. To learn more about Stop & Shop, visit www.stopandshop.com.
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Crime watCh ■ On Feb. 19, Freeport police officers arrested a suspect who threw an object at a person who was injured as a result. Both persons waited for police at the scene. The suspect was placed into custody without incident and transported to Nassau County Detention to await arraignment for the arrest-related charges.
Stolen Property ■ On Feb. 16, Freeport police officers conducted a vehicle stop based on a license plate reader notification. The officers arrested the driver for criminal possession of stolen property. The driver was taken into police custody without incident and transported to an adjoining police agency, where the crime originated.
Controlled Substance ■ On Feb. 15, Freeport police who were conducting a felony car stop observed a suspect in possession of a quantity of a controlled substance. The suspect was arrested without incident, transported to the Station House for arrest processing, and given a criminal court summons.
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■ On Feb. 17, Freeport police responded to an alarm notification for a location where a local business was left open and unattended after normal business hours. Police conducted an interior walkthrough without finding evidence of criminality. A report completed for documentation purposes and the business was re-secured.
Larceny ■ On Feb. 16, Freeport police completed a report for a person that had been contacted by someone unknown who was claiming to be from a cable service company. The victim unwittingly made payments through money cards and money transfer apps in an amount in excess of US$1,000.00 because the unknown person had said that the victim’s cable account was in default. The victim contacted the cable service and discovered that his account had never fallen into default. A report for documentation was completed by the victim with no further police action requested.
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Robbery at Baldwin bank The Major Case Bureau of the Nassau County Police Department is investigating a robbery that occurred in Baldwin on Tuesday at approximately 3:57 p.m. According to Robbery Squad detectives, an unknown man entered the Capital One bank located at 2303 Grand Avenue. The man approached the teller, verbally demanded money, presented a demand note, and displayed a handgun. The teller complied and the man fled on foot with an undetermined amount of U.S. currency. He was last seen running southbound on Grand Avenue.
The suspect is described as Black, late 40s to early 50s, with an average build, wearing a black jacket, black pants, black knit hat with a brim, black gloves and a blue surgical mask. Seven employees and one customer were present at the time of the robbery. No injuries were reported. Detectives request anyone with information about the robbery to contact Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244TIPS or call 911. All callers will remain anonymous.
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John Fisher (b. June 4, 1944), of Wantagh but formerly of Freeport,died on Feb. 20, age 77. He was the beloved husband of Maggie, the cherished father of Alex, Lisa, Jeanine, and Kelly, and the proud grandfather of 6 grandchildren. He was also the devoted brother of the late Richard, Timothy, Hugh, Peter, Patricia, Betty and Kathleen. His funeral mass was celebrated on Friday at Our Holy Redeemer R.C. Church. Cremation will be private.
Reginald Callus Reginald Callus (b. April 4, 1929) died Jan. 28 at the age of 92. Visitation services were held on Feb. 5 at Hungerford and Clark Funeral Home in Freeport, followed by a mass at Our Holy Redeemer RC Church and burial at Mount St. Mary Cemetery in Flushing. No obituary was available.
William Michael Rodriguez William Michael Rodriguez (b. Jan. 10 1985), of Freeport, died on Feb. 4, age 37. He was the loving husband of Olivia and the cherished father of Ethan and Alina. Visitation was held at Hungerford & Clark Funeral Home on Feb. 9, followed by a funeral mass at Our Holy Redeemer R.C. Church on Feb. 10, with interment at Greenfield Cemetery.
Hattan A. Callender Hattan A. Callender (b. May 26, 1957), of Baldwin, died Feb. 6, age 64. Her was the beloved husband of Beverley and the cherished father of Richele, Nikko and Marissa. Viewing was held at The Church of the Transfiguration in Freeport on Thursday, Feb. 17, followed by a service. A Closing prayer was held on Friday mor ning at Transfiguration Church at 10am. Interment will follow at Greenfield Cemetery.
Susan Russo Susan Russo (b. Dec. 5, 1936) died on Feb. 11. No obituary was available.
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Bay Park Conveyance benefits Freeport ect matches the immensity of the problem: a better solution must be found to get rid of the effluent left from treating 50 million to 60 million gallons of influent — sewage — that flow into the Bay Park plant every day. “To quantify, that’s like a supertanker the size of the Exxon Valdez,” Weltner said. “Basically, every day a supertanker of poop and chemicals is being treated at that plant, coming from residences and businesses plus about 15 hospitals, and then you have universities, industrial sites, nursing homes, so the water treatment plant is an extremely important piece of infrastructure.” Weltner likened the water treatment process to “a magic trick … You’re taking all of this horrible, nasty stuff, and when you pull the rabbit out of the hat, it’s supposed to be a nice, clean white rabbit (the effluent). Then you dump it into the bay.” The effluent has high levels of a plant nutrient, nitrogen. Unfortunately, the excess nitrogen nourishes the wrong plants. It also damages the right plants. The wrong plants, Weltner explained, are marine algae, especially ulva lactuca, or sea lettuce, which overwhelms shorelines and gives off poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas as it decays. When ulva lactuca and other marine algae die in the water, they sink, draping the bottom surface with mud. The decaying process uses up the oxygen that is normally dissolved in seawater, so the water becomes hypoxic — low in oxygen — and the sea life in the water dies. The “right plant” that is damaged by too much nitrogen is spartina — salt marsh grass. Spartina normally develops thickly tangled root systems that help it
The Western Bays The term “Western Bays,” or back bays, refers to the complex of small islands, inlets, creeks, channels, canals and hassocks — small islands composed mainly of salt marsh — between greater Long Island and the barrier islands along its South Shore. The Western Bays area stretches for 10 miles, from East Rockaway Inlet to Jones Inlet. Freeport sits a few miles north of Jones Inlet.
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RoB WelTneR, execuTive director of Operation SPLASH, indicated the location of the Bay Park outfall pipe in Reynolds Channel. forage for nutrients like nitrogen. The dense mat of roots helps to hold the salt marshes together, enabling them to buffer the force of wave action against the shoreline, especially during storms.
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But dense root systems aren’t needed in nitrogen-rich water. Marshes with looser root systems lose their ability to resist wave action. They crumble when struck by waves, whether storm-generated or from the wakes of large boats speeding through the Western Bays. Long Island’s salt marshes have diminished by 50 per-
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LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Formation of Hollyhood Chi LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 10/22/21. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served to Samuel Williams, 1620 Grand Avenue, P.O. Box 1541, Baldwin, NY 11510. Purpose: Any lawful act. 129556 LEGAL NOTICE SHARPS DISPOSAL SERVICE Meadowbrook Care Center, a skilled nursing facility, located at 320 West Merrick Road, Freeport, New York 11520, offers a community service for the collection and disposal of home-generated sharps (syringes, needles and lancets). To ensure safety, all sharps must be placed in OSHA approved containers with tight fitting screw tops which are shatter proof, leak
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LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the regularly scheduled meeting of the Site Plan Review Board for March 8th 2022 at the Municipal Building, 46 North Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York, HAS BEEN CANCELLED. BY ORDER OF THE
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cent in the last half-century, so the South Shore is far less protected against storms than in the past. Another result of the nitrogen imbalance is that mats of over-nourished algae on the watery surface keep ultraviolet light from reaching underwater meadows of a special plant called seagrass. “Seagrass is very important for horseshoe crabs, crabs, clams, oysters, flounders, fluke,” Weltner explained. “These creatures come to our bays to spawn because they can hide from predators in the seagrass.” Without the hiding places, their survival rate diminishes greatly, which means a smaller harvest for Freeport’s recreational and commercial fisheries. A decision made in the late 1940s initiated the dying process. The decision was to locate the outfall pipe from the Bay Park treatment plant in Reynolds Channel, just north of Long Beach. Engineers, Weltner said, theorized that the movement of water through the East Rockaway Inlet and Jones Inlet would carry the treated water from the Reynolds Channel pipe out to the ocean. This theory partly works in winter, when the prevailing north-northwest winds push the bay waters southward through the inlets to the open Atlantic. Unfortunately, in the summer, winds commonly blow out of the south-southwest, which pushes ocean water northward into the inlets and traps the treated water in the Western Bays. “That’s 420 million gallons every week of wastewater being deposited back into the bays,” Weltner said. “Some of the scientists that we deal with from Stony Brook, from Adelphi, and some of the engineering groups that we work with call this” — the waters near the Reynolds Channel outfall pipe — “the bull’s-eye of death.”
Resurrecting the Western Bays The $439 million Bay Park Conveyance Project will eliminate the Reynolds Channel pipe and allow a resurrection of the
Western Bays. According to the project website, bayparkconveyance.org, “The Bay Park Conveyance Project will reduce nitrogen pollution in the Western Bays by redirecting treated water from the South Shore Water Reclamation Facility to the Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP). From Cedar Creek, the treated water will be discharged approximately three miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean via an ocean outfall pipe to a one-mile-long diffuser array with 120 diffuser ports. These diffusers mix treated water with ocean water, where it quickly disperses.” Legislators who represent Freeport are enthused about the project. “It has been described as the most transformative environmental project on Long Island in decades,” said Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé, a Democrat from Freeport. Legislator Steve Rhoads, a Republican from Bellmore, calls it the “single most important environmental project” in the county since the construction of sewers in the 1960s and ’70s. For Weltner, the resurrection of the bays is deeply personal. A construction electrician who worked on both the Bay Park and Cedar Creek water treatment facilities, he was also a scuba diver for the Freeport Fire Department. During his hours underwater in the bays, he witnessed the ugly decline of underwater life up close. Weltner, with scientists from Adelphi University, got a grant to go out on the ocean on a 256-foot Environmental Protection Agency boat in 2011. “We spent four long days working around the clock on the Ocean Survey Vessel ship, the USS Bold, offshore, researching the effects of ocean outfall pipes on the South Shore of Long Island,” Weltner said. The data gathered on that trip was foundational to the creation of the Bay Park Conveyance Project. Asked if the go-ahead for the project was a long time coming, Weltner said, “The wheels of government can sometimes turn extremely slow,” and laughed. But seeing the work that has been accomplished since Superstorm Sandy shows that those wheels indeed do turn. Have an opinion on the environmental protection of South Shore marine life? Send a letter to rbethany@liherald.com.
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A. So you believe everyone is out to get you, including your architect, and you have the right to “pull back” your permit, ignoring the conditions of your house. It doesn’t work that way. Unfortunately, even though most local governments know that most homes have violations, the governments choose not to prosecute every homeowner, since it would be bad for the business of getting re-elected, so code violations go on without a word until you make the first move, which you did, by coming to the attention of the building officials whose job is public safety. Every day of the week, people ask if we can’t just look the other way. We absolutely can look the other way, but eventually who will believe us for lying or not doing our job? The issues of your home easily come up by simply bringing up satellite images, on-line accessible documents, including tax department records, showing what is in the home and whether the third floor was finished. Your building official doesn’t need the architect or you to figure out the truth about the illegalities in your home. When your architect shows the actual conditions, which he is required to do, including walls removed, walls finished in rooms that the building department has no previous record of, or other changes, he’s only doing his job. Imagine the scrutiny an architect would receive if a building official walked in to check the conditions and discovered that you and the architect had lied. I have stated in this column, many times, the statistic that only five people out of 100 will survive a fire on the third floor. Ninety-five people will die of smoke inhalation or burns. So do the right thing and follow through, whichever way you choose. I’m pulling for you.
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merica has had many political dynasties over the past 75 years. I recall the Browns in California and the Landrieu family in Louisiana. There are many others, but none can compare to the Kennedy family and the dominant role it has played in our nation’s history. Sadly, almost all of the well-known Kennedys are gone, with the exception of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his legacy has taken a dark turn from that of the rest of his famous family. The Kennedys jERRy were known as activists who supKREmER ported important causes, from the Special Olympics to health care for all. With his name, the son of the late Sen. Bobby Kennedy, who represented New York, could have gotten involved in dozens of worthwhile efforts that would be a continuation of decades of family good deeds. But instead, RFK Jr. has become the hero of the anti-vac-
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cine movement, which is both puzzling and surprising. He travels around the country, spreading his gospel that vaccinations are a threat to your health. According to The Boston Globe, Kennedy preaches, “the COVID vaccine is dangerous for your children.” He claims it is “criminal malpractice to give a child one of these vaccines.” He has also called the Covid jab “one of the deadliest vaccines ever made.” And his fixation with vaccines isn’t limited to those created for the coronavirus. He argues, without proof, that vaccines in general are linked to autism, food allergies and a host of other medical problems. For many years he asserted that the inoculations for measles, mumps and rubella caused autism and other neurological disorders, and according to the Associated Press, he claims that public health officials “knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of American children.” Kennedy is the darling of anti-vax
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groups all over the country, and is welcomed into the homes of the wealthy and influential, where he rails against the shots with no medical backup for virtually anything he says. He claims he is doing this as a public service, but his anti-vaccine foundation, Children’s Health Defense, recently reported more than $6.8 million on hand. Kennedy states that there is no profit motive for his antvaccine activity. When asked if he was being paid for his efforts, Kennedy told Fox’s Tucker Carlson, “I am getting unpaid for this.” But records show that in 2019, he earned $255,000 from the foundation. Kennedy has used social media to spread his opinions, and has spent big dollars to back them up. His nonprofit is one of two buyers accounting for 54 percent of anti-vaccine content on Facebook. He has a large following on Facebook and Twitter, but his Instagram account was removed last year for “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about Covid vaccines.” To add to the strangeness of Kenne-
he son of a legendary New York senator busily spreads misinformation.
dy’s crusade, his 2021 book “The Real Anthony Fauci” promotes unproven Covid-19 treatments such as ivermectin, which is meant to treat parasites in animals, and the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, and he claims that the current vaccines have never been safety tested, even though the Food and Drug Administration requires three phases of testing that involves thousands of people before a childhood vaccine is approved. There is no shortage of stories about concerned parents who believe that all vaccinations are suspicious or dangerous. I do not challenge their beliefs. But considering the many positive paths that so many Kennedy family members have taken over the years, the one that RFK Jr. has taken is a disturbing one. He is a true believer in his misguided cause, but he bears no resemblance to his legendary late father. Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.
1950s sci-fi horror story still burns bright
ow did he know? How did Ray Bradbury know in 1951 that the tiny black and white televisions popping up in everyone’s living room had the potential to alter human experience? How did Bradbury, who died at age 91 in 2012, know that the little screens would lead to big screens that would eventually possess children’s minds in a way books could not? How did he foresee that people would stuff their heads with the cerebral equivalent of cotRANDI ton candy and KREISS abandon intellectual pursuits for lives devoted to video games? Bradbury was a visionary. He prophesied that many new inventions had the potential to threaten civilized life. What he saw as science “fiction” has come to pass. We are living amid modern advances that have ironically set us back as a people in pursuit of enlightenment and knowledge. We live in an era when the great works of literature are reduced to and diluted into mini-works and summaries, Cliff Notes and comic books.
I urge you and your teenagers to read “Fahrenheit 451,” Bradbury’s 1951 novel that warned the world that it was moving inexorably toward a time of more technology and less humanity, more autocracy, and less freedom of thought. He described a time when fringe groups of fanatics would dominate by using invasive surveillance and harsh laws to squelch any resistance. He never mentioned QAnon, but he knew it was coming. Reading “Fahrenheit 451” today, in the time of alternate facts, false flags, big lies and other threats to our democracy, has left me shaken. Bradbury set the book in a city of the future, but he was writing during the time of the McCarthy hearings, the Red Scare, emerging nuclear weapons and increased government intrusion into the private lives of citizens. He wrote a what-if tale of how a civilized people could lose their freedom by following false gods that pander to their darkest impulses. Seventy years ago he was writing about now, about selfserving political operatives and fake news and pseudo-patriots who tear down the scaffolding that holds up American democracy. “Fahrenheit 451” is a short novel
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about a future in which firefighters are tasked with burning books and the houses of people who hide them. When a woman stands defiantly in her doorway with her book in hand, they burn her, too. Books are banned because they “confuse” people with their ideas. Much of the population is beaten into acceptance of the new normal, with information and entertainment blaring at them from wall screens all day. No one walks outside. Everyone is suspect. It is a thriller about one man, Montag, a fireman who experiences a sudden awakening to the horrors he has perpetrated. His wife, a survivor of multiple suicide attempts, is addicted to the virtual world projected from the screens in her house. She and her friends are inured to authentic feeling, even within themselves. Montag goes on the run, with firemen in pursuit. Eventually he joins up with a rogue band of men — former professors and thinkers, now wanderers in the wilderness, each with large sections of books memorized for posterity. Bradbury’s hero wears a “sea clam shell” in his ear that presages the AirPod. Montag stops on the street to get money from a machine that didn’t exist
eventy years ago, Ray Bradbury was presciently writing about now.
in the 1950s. Overhead, supersonic aircraft drop bombs on cities. They are unmanned drones, much like the ones our government is using to assassinate terrorists thousands of miles away. He explores the risks of free thinking in a time of crushing conformity. In the world of “Fahrenheit 451” there is no privacy, no awareness of nature, simply the elevation of technology and the diminution of humanity. Why does Montag go rogue? What makes him realize that freedom of thought is worth dying for? His last job with the firemen is to burn down the house of a woman who is hiding books. When they arrive with their trucks and flame-throwers, she is standing in the doorway with a book in her hand, and she strikes the first match, killing herself as the house explodes around her. People will die for their books, Montag realizes. It’s something to think about when we read headlines every day about book bans and censorship of treasured literature. It’s something to act on when we see children who watch but don’t read in a time in America when only 25 percent of the population reads a book a year. Bradbury knew we need books to tell the story of ourselves and pass that story on to future generations. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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n chess, you can’t control the game unless you control the board. The same can be said about politics, and since the early days of the republic, state legislatures have had virtually complete control of the congressional and legislative redistricting process. After each census, states are required to draw new district boundary lines — a controversial process that far too often is steeped in partisanship. In fact, New York state lawmakers just approved those lines in recent weeks, making a number of changes, felt primarily when it comes to who represents us where in Congress. Nothing about redistricting is popular — especially when population declines force the Legislature to remove congressional districts completely, as New York had to do this year. That’s why then Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced in 2011 what would eventually become a state constitutional amendment removing redistricting powers from the Legislature — which drew district boundaries for itself — and putting it in the hands of an “independent” commission.
We use “independent” ironically because it really wasn’t. The majority and minority parties in the Legislature each appointed four members, and those eight members chose two more people who were not registered members of either party. This commission held hearings and then drew new district late last year. What its members couldn’t do was come to a consensus. Without what would essentially be a bipartisan agreement, the entire process was thrown back to the very Legislature that held the power to draw the maps in the first place. Even if the commission had somehow found a way to agree on a final set of maps, it still required approval from the Legislature. Even in that scenario, the Legislature would only need to reject the maps drawn by the commission twice before it regained its original power to draw the maps its members chose. It’s like buying your wife a bowling ball for your anniversary, with the finger holes drilled to fit your own grip. Did anyone really believe that an inde-
pendent commission could craft district maps on its own that the State Legislature would actually approve? The odds were stacked against the panel from the very start, creating not an independent commission, but simply the appearance of one, while the process of drawing maps remained the same as it has been for the past couple of centuries. Gerrymandering is an age-old problem, and it’s hard not to look at some of the new districts — like the stretching of U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi’s congressional district from northern Nassau County straight up past Little Neck Bay, and west to the East River and into Westchester County — and not see highly creative boundary drawing. Yet we can’t seem to get out of our own way to prevent it. A slight shift of a district line here, and a tuck there, can be the difference between true representation and an electorate skewed to support an elite few. Representation is the very essence of democracy. But if we’re not drawing district lines fairly, are we truly represented?
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letters Will train platform barriers work? To the Editor: In his letter “Rail Lines Need Barriers” (Feb. 10-16), Nassau County Legislator Josh Lafazan pointed out a need for barriers on various railroad platforms. What he did not address, however, is how barriers would affect traffic on those platforms. First, if barriers are installed, there will be significantly less space on the platforms, which means that fewer people will have access to them. Second, while the technology exists to make the trains stop at the exact location so that their doors will open at the openings of the platfor m doors, that will require that all trains be the same length, no matter what the requirements for travel may be. Should the two sets of doors not match up exactly (within an allowable tolerance of about 18 inches) the passengers may not be able to detrain. Similarly, if the platform doors open and the train doors don’t, there will also be a lot of unhappy people.
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hile the state’s election districts were recently redrawn — gerrymandered — by a progressive-Democratic majority in the State Legislature for the purpose of favoring their party, gerrymandering is not a particularly new political weapon. Those on both sides of the aisle have used their power to redraw district lines, depending on who holds the majority. The practice goes back to the 1800s, but this year’s redrawing by is unprecedented, ronaLd j. and comes at a when the rosenberg time self-proclaimed progressives’ larger political agenda ranges from defunding police to “bail reform” to demonizing the successful entrepreneur, i.e., capitalism. As U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi pursues his gubernatorial primary quest, his former 3rd Congressional District is now unrecognizable. The progressive gerrymander has recreated his congressional borders into what they now humorously call the Long Island Sound District. It now stretches from Smithtown in Suffolk County, along the lightly populated North Shore, into the densely populated Bronx, and ends in Democratic West-
chester County. While several Long Island Democrats have announced their intentions to run for Suozzi’s vacated seat, they will face a growing number of New York City-based progressives who see their population density and massive Democratic enrollment in the city and its environs as bulletproof at the ballot box. The numbers speak for themselves. The Village of Northport, part of the new 3rd C.D., has some 8,000 residents. The City of New Rochelle, in Westchester, which is also part of the new district, has some 80,000. Now consider who is lining up to run in the 3rd District so far: Bronx State Senator Alessandra Biaggi, who defeated moderate Democrat Jeff Klein a number of years ago. In a December tweet, Democratic Socialist Congresswoman Alexandria OcasioCortez had nothing but praise for Biaggi. Also in the running is Melanie D’Arrigo, a self-described progressive who has been endorsed by former New York City Council Speaker Melissa MarkViverito, a city pol who once co-chaired the City Council’s Progressive Caucus. So these are the extremist candidates who stand a very good chance of assuming control of a new district designed to remove the potential of not just a Republican winning the seat, but of Long
Letters the Heralds in which he did not challenge the reader to think, to question, and to join him in creating a better community. Over the decades, his professionalism saw him literally on the front lines, reporting on everything from local events to major breaking news, and eventually overseeing the coverage that appears weekly in our local paper. Brinton has reported on not one, not two, but three once-in-a-lifetime events: the Sept. 11 attacks, Superstorm Sandy and the Covid19 pandemic. He further demonstrated his professionalism and class when the Merrick Life transitioned to the Merrick Herald, paying tribute to the decades of community journalism by the Laursen family. Scott was not only our source of news. He was a neighbor and a parent in our community. You may have waved hello to him as he jogged through the neighborhood. You may have stood behind him on the bagel line. But you always knew his byline stood for probing and honest journalism. This is one reader who will miss our local journalism, celebrity and who thanks him for his almost three decades of service to the Merrick-Bellmore community. KYLE STROBER Merrick
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Islanders having any representation focused on Long Island issues. The implications have not gone unnoticed. Great Neck-based Democratic primary hopeful Robert Zimmerman is now warning Democrats and Republicans that he is the political firewall that could prevent a progressive from representing the new district. As he raises money for the primary, Zimmerman is reciting a list of moderate, centrist Long Island Democrats who now support his effort. His strategy is that of a seasoned professional, leveraging his public relations experience to focus his message, which is, essentially, “I am your last best hope to confront this city theft.” Of course, that presumes the Republican Party won’t field a candidate who can confront and defeat whoever the Democrats nominate in this now unrecognizable district. But the reality is that the tortured borders of the 3rd are a calculated move by New York City-based progressives to dismantle Nassau and Suffolk counties’ ability to project political cohesion and regional advocacy. If successful, they will have effectively eliminated any chance that the Long Island congressional delegation will be a powerful force in the House of Representatives. Consider what that means. Will a
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Bronx progressive/Socialist Democrat really work with a Long Island Republican to redress the loss of South Shore beachfront in a nor’easter? Will a Bronx progressive care about environmental damage along Smithtown’s coastline? Will a Bronx Progressive fight for infrastructure money for the Long Island Expressway? Because, after all, shouldn’t we all be punished for not using electric vehicles? And by the way, many constituents of this new Long Island Sound District have median incomes that progressives will find worthy of their most pungent demagoguery, because capitalism is an anathema to their political ideology. This ambush of Long Island by these progressives reveals a smug disdain for suburbia, its values, its people and its needs. To counter it, Long Island voters must recognize that we have been robbed of our voice in Congress. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, liberal or conservative. As a bicounty region, we have been mugged by those who cynically intend to walk off with one of our congressional seats. The answer is to recognize the ploy and respond appropriately on Election Day 2022. Ronald J. Rosenberg has been an attorney for 42 years, concentrating in commercial litigation and transactions, and real estate, municipal, zoning and land use law. He founded the Garden City law firm Rosenberg Calica & Birney in 1999.
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