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Surfing inspires children’s book “The book is a message of hope and healing,” he said. The book is centered on a Among the things Cliff Sku- character named Milo the Sloth. din knows is water. A foreword notes that the book Among the things Jeanine was written “in response to the Sorensen knows is children. Covid-19 pandemic to support Skudin, whose name is synon- the organization and the athletes ymous in Long Beach with run- it sponsors.” ning surf shops and teaching Milo, a happy sloth, loves surfing, and Sorensen, a school playing with his best friends, psychologist at Lindell Elemen- Sue the Snail, Sha the Turtle and tary School in Long Kai the Chameleon. Beach, put what The sloth is always they know together swinging from tree a n d h ave c o to tree and having authored a lively, fun, the authors colorful children’s write. book, “Milo the Alas, one day, Sloth: Saved by the “many of Milo’s Stoke.” friends are not On Tuesday around to play,” and night, they signed when he asks his Cliff SkUDiN copies of the book at mom if he can go the Bright Eye Beer out and play, she Co. on Park Avenue. They also says no. No movies, no library. “A hosted a fundraiser for Skudin virus is spreading,” Milo learns. Surf For All, a Long Beach-based Milo is lonely and sad, but nonprofit that organizes surf one day he meets a pod of doloutings and other events for chil- phins surfing in the waves. “I’m dren and adults with physical so stoked,” one dolphin says. and developmental disabilities. Milo joins the dolphins and About 100 people turned out find happiness, recalling how he for the book signing and fund- used to play with his friends who raiser, including members of the one day will rejoin him. Long Beach City Council, well“The worry worms in his known real-estate brokers and mind and squirmy nerves in his students of Skudin Surf For All. belly are all gone.” “We were trying to come up Skudin said he believed the with a response to the pandem- water cures much, both mentally ic,” Skudin said. “We knew we and physically. He describes it as wanted to keep the kids in the possessing a healing quality, one water, and keep up their interest.” Continued on page 4
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Congratulations, class of 2021! Members of Long Beach High School’s senior class threw their mortarboards skyward at their commencement last Friday.
Kaminsky plots his next move, from Senate to D.A.’s office By JaMeS BerNSTeiN Jbernstein@liherald.com
Todd Kaminsky, who was reelected last November to a third two-year term in the State Senate, announced his candidacy for Nassau County district attorney on Tuesday. Appearing in a dark blue suit despite the 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, Kaminsky’s parents and supporters from his hometown of Long Beach. Kaminsky was endorsed by the Nassau County Democratic Party last Friday. 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. “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 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 defenContinued on page 6
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2021 class celebrates graduation yourself and others, and never stop learning.” “Whether your next move is a career, trade, college or the service, I know that you will flourish within your chosen endeavor,” Dr. Natali said. “I know this because of all that we have been through together.” State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a graduate of the Long Beach Public Schools, was a special guest at the ceremony. He shared the poem, “Anyway,” by Mother Teresa and encouraged the students in their next chapters. Salutatorian Maya Arengo discussed the future and choices that impact it. “There is still so much we have yet to experience,” Maya said. “There is still much of the world we have yet to see and many incredible people we have yet to meet. My advice to you would be to explore as much as you can. We should step outside of our comfort zones and experiment with different career paths, friend groups and hobbies.” Valedictorian Uma Arengo analyzed life lessons and shared her aspirations for the future. “As I become an adult, I will strive to live by the principles I learned as a child, in hopes that everything else in life – success, contentment, happiness and peace – will follow,” Uma said. “I will try to be a lifelong student continuously following the lessons I learned. Everyone is welcome to join me.” “This is the end of an era,” Senior Class President Chloe Casey said. “As we enter the next chapter of our lives, we have the whole world ahead of us. Some may be continuing their education at universities, starting their careers or joining the Armed Forces. We are ready to conquer anything the world throws at us.” The highly anticipated presentation of diplomas followed, and each graduate was called up to signify the completion of a long journey. This moment was doubly meaningful for Anthony Adames, who received a surprise when his brother, United States Marine Xavier Adames, appeared on stage to hand him a diploma. Student Organization President Brooke Roth addressed her classmates and presented a poem. She led the turning their tassels from right to left, and the graduates rejoiced, tossing their caps upward into limitless skies. Courtesy Long Beach Public Schools
valedictorian Uma arengo, left, and her sister Salutatorian Maya Arengo. the school administration stood for the pledge of allegiance before the commencement.
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Long Beach High School’s 98th annual commencement ceremony brought a culmination to a year like no other. The Class of 2021, district leaders from Long Beach Public Schools and the Island Park Public Schools, teachers and students’ proud family members were delighted to be together to witness and celebrate this milestone. The graduation band played “Pomp and Circumstance” as seniors entered in their blue caps and gowns, and the graduation choir and band performed the National Anthem. Speakers reflected on the students’ resilience and perseverance throughout circumstances they have faced. Principal Jeffrey Myers praised the graduates and those who have supported them, and Board of Education Trustee Anne Conway and Assistant Superintendent Michele Natali each addressed the class as both district officials and parents of seniors. Board of Education Vice President Dr. Dennis Ryan expressed appreciation to Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jennifer Gallagher for her leadership throughout the pandemic. “Throughout this unusual year, you’ve shown your strength in many ways,” Myers said. “You grew a little with each experience, by even the smallest changes and by each difficulty.” “You know how to consciously decide how to achieve,” Ms. Conway said. ”Continue to use your voice to advocate for
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Xavier adames, a member of the U.S. Marines who has been deployed, surprised his brother Anthony Adames as he accepted his diploma at graduation.
LB police arrest two and find gunshot victim Long Beach police late Sunday night arrested two Hempstead men, charging one of them with weapons possession. The other was arrested on an unrelated warrant. They found another man with gunshot wounds but were unable to say whether he was shot by one of the arrested men. Officers said they received a call for an alcohol emergency in the area of Edwards Boulevard and East Olive Street early Monday mor ning. When they arrived, officers saw blood on the pants of the person in need of medical assistance. Medical personnel said that the man, unbeknown to him, had been shot multiple times in the buttocks. The 22-year-old gunshot victim was transported to a local hospital, where he was recovering from surgery at press time and was expected to make a full recovery. Police Commissioner Ron Walsh said officers did not know whether the man arrested late Sunday on weapons possession charges had shot the alcohol emergency victim. He said the investigation was continuing. The victim was not otherwise identified. Deandre Oates, 18, was charged with weapons possession. Tyreek Williams, also 18, was arrested for an active arrest warrant. Both men are from Hempstead.
The arrests came after police began closing Ocean Beach Park and the boardwalk at about 11 p.m. Walsh said that a crowd of between 2,000 and 2,500 young people had gathered on the boardwalk, but had been peaceful, and disbursed when told to leave the area by police. There were no arrests as a result of the gathering. Oates and Williams were among four men police encountered when they heard gunshots near West Penn Street, while the crowd was disbursing. Police said they observed four men in the vicinity of 25 W. Broadway. The men were stopped by officers, and three complied. But Oates was observed holding a bulky item in his waistband. At this point, Oates began to flee, jumping over a chain-link fence. Officers pursed him and saw him throw an object into a nearby yard. They subsequently discovered that it was a loaded firearm with a defaced serial number. Long Beach detectives are actively investigating, and anyone with information is asked to contact the Detective Division at (516) 705-7320. —James Bernstein
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cliff Skudin and Jeanine Sorensen with their new book, “Saved By The Stoke.”
Book celebrates a sloth Long Beach, said that her son, Charlie, now 28, is autistic. At age 14, he spoke that protects as well as soothes. Sorensen, co-founder of Surf For All, only a few sentences. Cliff Skudin taught said, “We wanted to send a message that him to swim. “Cliff then said he had to learn to surfing is a source of healing. We wanted surf,” Butler said. “That everything to give a message of hope and healing.” The book, she said, is aimed at early- changed. He started to speak and to work” childhood readers. The sloth, Sorensen at the Skudin Surf camp. “The teachers at said, represents the idea that people can his school said, ‘What happened to Charbe different and still be successful at what lie?’” He was a different person, she said, they do. noting, “It was the water.” The book is available online at Barnes & Noble and Amazon. It is also available at the Skudin Surf Shop on the Boardwalk at Riverside Boulevard, and at the Codfish Cowboy, 162 E. Park Ave. Surf for All works with about 15 to 20 community organizations, schools and nonprofits throughout Long Island, including the Long Beach School District, Long Beach Waterfront Warriors, United Cerebral Palsy of Nassau County, Camp Abilities Long Island, Martin Luther King Center, Henry Viscardi School, Nassau BOCES and the Town of Hempstead’s Camp Anchor. One participant in Tuesday night’s event can testify as to milo the Sloth, Sorensen said, represents the what Skudin Surf For All can idea that people can be different and still be sucaccomplish. Kathy Butler, of cessful at what they do.
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Local officials gathered in front of Long Beach City Hall Wednesday to denounce the sale of cannabis-infused products, which they say are being marketed to children. The news conference comes a day after Long Beach Superintendent of Schools Jennifer Gallagher warned parents in a statement about cannabis-laced cookies that are designed to look exactly like Chips Ahoy and Oreos. The cookies are being sold as “Stoneo” and “Trips Ahoy.” “My nightmare is that young children might consume these without even realizing what they are,” Gallagher wrote. State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, along with school and elected officials, led the effort in calling for the State Department of Health to ban the cannabis compound -- delta-8. He said that although a store may market a product as delta-8, people cannot be sure that it’s not another product. He denounced the accessibility of purchasing the product and the packaging. Delta-9 is the THC compound found in marijuana.
“Delta 8 is exploiting a loophole because it has part of hemp in it,” Kaminsky said. “And the claim that Delta 8, that makers use, is “hey this is legal under the new hemp law.” New Yorkers know that can’t stand.” A package of “Trips Ahoy” can contain up to 500 mg of delta-8. Assemblywomen Missy Miller and Judy Griffin joined Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and Kaminsky in sending a letter to state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker asking for a ban on delta-8. The state health department has 43 more days for comments to review a ban on delta-8 and other cannabis-related products. Long Beach Police Commissioner Ron Walsh said that Dr. Nature Rx. was the only licensed CBD vendor in the city that sold cannabis-infused cookies. The store, however, took the products off the shelves. He added that he will send a package of “Stoneo” to a lab to be tested. Like other municipalities in the state, the City of Long Beach has until December 21 to decide if they will opt-in or out of the sale of Marijuana. In April, officials said they will seek public comment before making a decision.
Distressed swimmer dies of heart attack after managing to get out of the water A 30-year-old distressed swimmer died Tuesday night, apparently of a heart attack on the beach at New York Avenue, after managing to get out of the water, Long Beach officials said. The man was identified only as 30 years old and from Brooklyn. In an announcement, the city said first responders were alerted to a swimmer in distress at about 6:54 pm. Lifeguards, the city noted, go off duty at 6 pm. Members of the Long Beach fire department and off-duty lifeguards were on the scene within five minutes. But, the city said, the man was already on the shoreline. He was given oxygen and taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. “This devastating loss of life was completely avoidable,” said Long Beach Fire Department Chief James “Jake” Jacobi, who is also a member of the Long Beach Lifeguard Beach Patrol. “While inviting,
the ocean can be very dangerous. I can’t stress enough the importance of beachgoers not entering the ocean when lifeguards are off-duty.” Long Beach Lifeguards (Beach Patrol) are on-duty from 9:00am to 6:00pm seven days a week throughout the Summer. Beach Patrol employs aggressive proactive measures to keep beach- goers safe, taking thousands of preventative actions each day to keep everyone in the water safe. “Our lifeguards do a tremendous job keeping beach-goers safe, but can only control the situation when they are on-duty,” said Chief Jacobi. “People entering the ocean after-hours put both themselves and our first-responders at risk. The loss of a lif All beach-goers are urged to familiarize themselves with basic beach safety guidance. This guidance can be found by visiting www.LongBeachNY.gov/beach
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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 on June 23 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 on June 23 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.
Kaminsky announces he’s running for Nassau D.A. continued fRom fRont dants awaiting trial who could not afford bail by limiting the number of crimes for which judges could set bail. The 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 Agency after remaining a fugitive for a month. Two retired police officers, Tom Wil-
hand for Kaminsky’s announcement. After Dean Skelos, of Rockville Centre, was expelled from the State Senate in 2015 after todd KaminsKy a conviction on corruption charg es, the Democratic Party selected Kaminsky as its nominee for his seat in the special election in April 2016. Two weeks later, he was officially declared the winner after defeating Republican challenger Chris McGrath by 886 votes. Kaminsky and McGrath ran against each other again in the November 2016 general election—with Kaminsky winning a full term this time around. Last year, he defeated Victoria Johnson, who had never held elective office before and campaigned on a single issue — repeal of the bail reform law. Republicans will name a candidate soon. On Monday, the Nassau GOP issued a statement that read, “The only people who are happy about Todd Kaminsky’s nomination for district attorney are the thousands upon thousands of dangerous criminals who he voted to set freeduring his tenure in the State Senate. Nassau Democrats could not have selected an individual who is softer on crime.”
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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. son, 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 him 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 he announced his candidacy for D.A. on Rory’s third birthday. Bor n and raised in Long Beach, Kaminsky attended local schools. He succeeded Harvey Weisenberg in the State Assembly in 2014. Weisenberg, 86, was on
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Library Board Meeting The Long Beach Public Library Board of Trustees typically meets on the third Monday of every month. Check the website for specific dates and times, www.longbeachlibrary.org.
Monday, July 5 Independence Day Observed
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In observation of the holiday, City Hall, the Magnolia Center and the Ice Arena will be closed on Monday, July 5. The Rec Center will be open. LB Buses will run on a holiday schedule. There will be regular residential and commercial sanitation pickup. Alternate side of the street parking will be suspended.
The Long Beach Soup Kitchen, 140 West Pine Street, is open 6 days a week 11:15 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. They offer Hot and Cold Meals TO GO. They offer a full pantry with canned goods and fresh produce. Mondays and Thursdays. All are welcome.
Meet The City Manager City Manager Donna M. Gayden will be holding “Meet The City Manager” virtual chat sessions. These meetings are an opportunity for residents to engage in a one-to-one dialogue with the City Manager; ask questions, share concerns, or express ideas on how to enhance the quality of life in our community. The virtual meetings will take place on Tuesdays from 2-4 p.m. Appointments are needed and are given on a first-come, first-served.basis. Please call the City Manger’s Office to make an appointment at (516) 4317202 or email citymanager@ longbeachny.gov. Information on how to meet will be provided after the appointment is confirmed.
Farmers’ Market The Kennedy Plaza Farmers’ Market will be held at Kennedy Plaza in front of Long Beach City Hall every Saturday and Wednesday from 9:00am 2:00pm. For additional information, visit ligreenmarket.org
Arts in the Plaza Arts in the Plaza features handcrafted art by local artists including custom jewelry, unique handmade gifts, photography and fine art. The weekly art festival will be in Kennedy Plaza every Saturday from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. through October 30th. For more info visit artsintheplaza.comfacebook.com/ artsintheplaza1.
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City looking for lifeguards The City of Long Beach is seeking applicants for Beach Lifeguards. The test for applicants will be held on Tuesday, July 6 at 8 a.m. at Long Beach High School. For more information and an application, please visit www.longbeachny.gov.
Thursday, July 1 Childrens Take and Make 4th of July Craft Program with Miss Nicole and Miss Tanya Pick up your craft packet at the main library and then join Miss Nicole and Miss Tanya to make your Fourth of July special. Limited packets available at the circulation desk. The virtual event will start at 4:30 p.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www. longbeachlibrary.org for more information.
City Hall Summer Hours Begin City Hall Summer hours begin Thursday, July 1 through Wednesday, September 15, 2021. Summer hours are 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Mount Sinai South Nassau Vaxmobile Mount Sinai South Nassau’s Vaxmobile the region’s First COVID-19 Vaccination Mobile Unit will be in Long Beach
Thursday, July 1, 1-5 p.m. at Long Beach Catholic School, 735 West Broadway. Walk-Ups are permitted (supply is limited). Individuals interested in scheduling an appointment may do one of the following: Call the Town of Hempstead at 516-812-3678 Fill out and submit the contact form at: www.southnassau.org/sn/vaxmobile.
Friday, July 2 Chair Yoga This popular virtual Chair Yoga class focuses on a full-body practice and will help strengthen your nervous system and reduce stress and stiffness. Kathleen Regan has been practicing yoga since 1993, and she has been practicing for even longer. Certified in Hatha/Raja Yoga, she is also a certified Kundalini instructor. The virtual event will take place on Zoom from 9-10 a.m., visit the L.B. Library’s website
First half of the 2021-2022 City Real Estate Tax Due in July. Board of Education Meeting Thursday, July 1 at 5:30 p.m. Beach park opened seven days a week. Free concert series starts Juy 7. July 4th is this Sunday.
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Film Friday: The Virtuoso Friday’s feature film is the crime thriller, The Virtuoso (2021, Rated R, 1hr 50min) starring Anson Mount, Abbie Cornish, and Anthony Hopkins. The event will take place from 2-4 p.m., visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.
Sunday, July 4 Fabulous 4th 4K Race in Memory of Sean Ryan The Long Beach Department of Parks and Recreation will host the Fabulous 4th of July 4K Race and Children’s 1K Race on Sunday, July 4, 2021. Registration begins at 6:30am on Laurelton Boulevard and the boardwalk. The fun run begins at 8:00am and the 4K at 8:30am. This race is in memory
The City of Long Beach Zoning Board will meet at City Hall on the 6th floor at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, July 6 Free Summer Concert on the Beach The concerts will begin on Wednesday, July 7, 2021 and will take place every Wednesday night at 8 p.m. on rotating beaches, including New York Avenue, Riverside Boulevard and Neptune Boulevard. July 7: T’Bazco Road (Zydeco, Boogie and Blues) on New York Avenue Beach
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Mount Sinai breaks ground on $130M wing
LONG BEACH HERALD — July 1, 2021
By Thomas Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com
On the morning of June 22, Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital celebrated the groundbreaking for its J-Wing on its Oceanside campus. The wing will serve as the cornerstone of hospital’s $400 million capital expansion to increase health-care services. Projected to open in 2023, the $130 million J-Wing will stand at four stories and 100,000 square feet. The chairman of Mount Sinai’s board of directors, Joe Fennessy, said the board re-evaluated old plans for the facility, updating the infrastructure to match the evolving trends in health care. “We began to re-imagine what this hospital should be, and we realized to best serve the needs of our community, we had to be something different,” Fennessy said. “And that’s an entity that really focuses on more advanced and tertiary type services.” The expansion wing will feature larger operating rooms that can fit the state-of-the-art equipment needed to perform advanced cardiac surgery. The ground floor of the J-Wing will expand the emergency department by 12,000 square feet. Combined with the renovations currently being done on the existing department, the improved ED is designed to serve 80,000 patients a year, which will more than double the current 36,000. One person who was excited to see the proposed expansion of the emergency department is Rockville Centre resident Larry Ferazani. In December 2019, the cardiac emergency team conducted life-saving surgery on Ferazani after tests in the emergency room revealed he had had a widow-maker heart attack. “If I was not in this emergency room with this team of incredible folks, I would not be here today,” Ferazani said. “I do feel like an expecting father and you’re all my
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Board memBers and local officials broke ground on the future home of Mount Sinai South Nassau’s J-Wing June 22. cousins and family here today,” said Andrew Triolo, the vice president of design, development and construction. He outlined plans for a three-story parking structure and a utility plant to provide heating, cooling and emergency power for the hospital. An $89 million Federal Emergency Management Agency-funded project, the utility building will also provide storm resiliency. “The last 18 months have been very hard all around the world, and that makes days like today that much more special,” said Dr. Adhi Sharma, Mount Sinai’s chief medical officer, “because we should appreciate that tomorrow is not guaranteed.” Sharma lauded the board and design team for their efforts to adjust plans for the structure to account for Covid-19 issues. “What we learned during Covid, we want-
ed to apply to the design,” he said. New features include redone air handling to keep the environment clean, focusing on single-care spaces to limit contact with other patients and a streamlined system of oxygen delivery. The J-wing’s expanded intensive care unit will help in the oxygen transportation process and in critical care and specialized services. “It’s a core value that we find a way,” Dr. Ken Davis, chief executive officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, said. Nine new operating suites for the surgical field will also expand the hospital’s advances in surgical technologies and equipment. “It’s amazing what the team has done,” Sharma said. “I think health care in general has shown our resilience, our ability to think on our feet and our ability to roll up our sleeves.”
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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
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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. Comments about this column? SBrinton@ liherald.com.
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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. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
LONG BEACH HERALD — July 1, 2021
Audubon Society confronts its racist namesake — sort of
In Congress, July 4, 1776
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hen in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 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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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-
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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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