The Long Beach Public School District started its new year Wednesday, welcoming back students of all grades and ages. Lindell Elementary School had a warm welcome for its young learners, showering them with smiles — and balloons. More photos, Page 12.
Heather Traynor, who grew up in Brooklyn, began spending summers in Long Beach in 1987, when her parents bought a home in the city.
Thirteen years later, Traynor was living in Queens, and visited Long Beach on a Friday night. She ended up at the Saloon, on West Beech Street, and met a guy named Danny Ward, from Inwood. Traynor didn’t make it back home to Queens until the following Monday.
“It was a really fun, wild weekend,” said Heather, whose last name is now Ward. “I didn’t know Friday night, but I knew Saturday that I was going to spend the rest of my life with him. It was instant.”
Danny was a New York City police officer, serving in the 2-6 Precinct in Harlem. After he met Traynor, he began saving up his vacation days so he could take the entire month of August off and spend it with her.
His first day back at work in
September 2001 was Tuesday, the 11th.
Heather remembers looking at the television as she was about to get into the shower that morning. She saw that a plane had hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. When she was getting out of the shower, a second plane had hit the south tower.
Danny said he needed to go to work immediately. Heather pleaded with him, trying to get him to stay home, but he said he had to go.
For the next six months, Danny did 12-hour overnight shifts six days a week, 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., at what was first known simply as the pile but soon became known as ground zero.
In 2005, he retired. He and Heather married in 2007, she moved in with him in Long Beach, and the following year they had a son, Andrew.
Then 2016 happened.
“He started to have breathing issues,” Heather said of Danny. “He went to the family doctor, and the doctor noticed a change in his breathing. After-
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The 27th annual Michelle O’Neill Volleyball Tournament returns to Long Beach on Sept. 9 at Laurelton Boulevard beach, one of the city’s most popular events that is expected to draw thousands.
The tournament has become a staple in the Long Beach community and according to Carol O’Neill, mother of Michelle O’Neill and president of the Michelle O’Neill Foundation, it’s the “last shot at summer” for many people. O’Neill and her family started the tournament to honor her Michelle, who died of cancer in 1996 at age 24.
“It’s a pretty well-oiled machine at this point,” said O’Neill. “We hear from people that it’s the best day ever. In fact, we used that as a slogan one year. People look forward to it.”
When the foundation first started, it raised $17,000 to help children with cancer and special needs. The foundation raises for organizations such as the MakeA-Wish Foundation, the Ronald McDonald House, Memorial Sloan Kettering, St. Jude’s Research Hospital, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and many others.
Before the games begin, O’Neill will take the stage with representatives from Make-A-Wish, the Ronald McDonald House and from Memorial Sloan Kettering. She’ll also be joined by about five families of the children that they’ve been able to assist.
After the opening ceremony, the games begin.
Last year, 431 teams took part, playing across 69 volleyball courts and nets. This year, 450 teams will be playing across nearly 75 nets. The tournament is split into three divisions — a four-man competitive division, a six-man competitive division and a six-man rec-
reational division. The event is the largest single-event volleyball tournament on the east coast.
The logo for the foundation is a smiley face to represent Michelle’s “fun-loving and gregarious” spirit. Each year, the face changes slightly in accordance with a specific theme. This year’s theme is “Shine On.” Like previous years, the slogan will be included on merchandise.
“I think our community really shines on and shows his best face on the day that we have the Michelle O’Neill Foundation,” she said. “I just really believe that. It’s a labor of love is very emotional for us.
Michelle’s memory is being carried on. She wanted to help people and she is. She’s helping people.”
Winning teams in each division will get trophies, except for the recreational league. In the past, the event also included raffle prizes such as a weekend in Manhattan, signed jerseys from the Boston Bruins’ Charlie McAvoy — a Long Beach native — and former New York Ranger Brain Leech, as well as surfboards, gift certificates and more.
People can donate on the group’s website, MONFoundation.org, or by mailing a check to their P.O. box, 478, in Long Beach.
Herald file photo
Long Beach resident Barbara Horn is committed to honoring and remembering those individuals who assisted in the 9/11 rescue and recovery efforts, ensuring their acts of bravery are never forgotten.
The “Calling of The Names Ceremony” takes place each year at St. Paul’s Chapel. Regardless of what caused their death, each person who helped is remembered in the ceremony.
t would be our sad honor to call your loved ones named in a ceremonyHorn volunteered to help out at St. Paul’s Chapel during Christmas time in 2001, in lower Manhattan. The chapel became a 24/7 respite center for the responders during the ninemonth rescue recovery effort.
“I wasn’t drafted. I didn’t serve in the army. And I thought this is the way I can serve my country,” she said. “St. Paul’s Chapel was where the responders came for supplies. There were shoes and socks and jackets, toiletries, and enough for three meals a day.”
In 2016, Horn and fellow volunteer Chester Johnson attended a moving ceremony commemorating the lives lost on that day. While many ceremonies specifically honor the immediate victims of 9/11, Horn and Johnson wanted to establish a dedicated event to remember and celebrate those who courageously served in the aftermath as first responders.
“We said, you know what, if they came to help, and they’re no longer with us, we’re going to call their names,” Horn said. “So that’s our criteria for calling someone’s name at our ceremony, it is simply that they came to help sometime during the nine-month rescue and recovery effort, sometime from Sept. 12 through the end of May 2001, and they have since died.”
What sets their ceremony apart is how they honor each person. They specifically mention if someone was a firefighter, sanitation worker, police officer, and so on. This detail is important because it shows why they were there and who they stood beside during those tough times.
Horn and others involved in the service realized that calling people by their affiliation or by who they were with when they were down at the site helps to give them a wider public appreciation of the group that we’re with.
“It’s had a wonderful benefit of giving people who are at the ceremony and people who listen to the ceremony, the appreciation of the groups too, as well as the individual,” she said.
The organizers maintain a foundational list, updated by referencing the FDNY and NYPD websites which annually record the passing of those involved in the 9/11 efforts. Additionally, Horn diligently monitors newspapers and television broadcasts to ensure all deserving individuals are honored.
Horn will attend the wakes of those who served and personally ask families if they can memorialize their loved ones.
“I say, my name is Barbara Horn, I volunteered at St. Paul’s Chapel in 2001, and in 2016, I and another St. Paul’s chapel volunteer created a ceremony to honor the responders who came to help after the attacks, and now have died. It would be our sad honor to call your loved ones named in a ceremony,” she says to the families.
She will additionally ask if they would like to come in and call their loved one’s name or if they’d like to designate someone to call the name.
Horn’s goal is to ensure that the contributions of these individuals are forever remembered, honoring their dedicated service to our country during that dark time.
Tons
The event honors those who helped others in the relief efforts from 9/11.
BARBRA HORN
Oceanside residents gathered on the Schoolhouse Green on Aug. 31 to celebrate International Overdose Awareness Day, remembering those who have lost their lives to drug addiction.
Dee’s Nursery & Florist provided purple flowers, which were planted by Oceanside Community Warriors to honor the victims’ memories. The Oceanside library assembled a crafting table, where attendees could decorate a rock to place by the flowers, in honor of someone they had lost to an overdose, or write an uplifting message.
This is the third year that the Oceanside SAFE Coalition has hosted Overdose Awareness Day. The hamlet has been deeply affected by overdoses, particularly among young people. That brought about the formation of the coalition in 2015.
“Sadly, we get reports from the precinct once a month, and there’s always some sort of overdose report happening within Oceanside,” Alison Eriksen, the coalition’s project coordinator, said, referring to the Nassau County Police Department’s 4th Precinct. “There are so many people in our community that have been affected by an overdose, and we really wanted to make sure that there was a place where they could go, and there was a place that they can honor those they have lost. There’s a place
where they can be remembered, and doing something like this, they’re seen, they’re heard, and they know that they’re not alone.”
As part of the event, Jo Venturelli, director of business and professional development at the Seafield Treatment Center, in Westhampton Beach, offered training on the use of Narcan nasal spray on the Schoolhouse Green. Narcan,
the brand name of the drug naloxone, reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. Free Narcan kits were given to all who took part in the training.
“I’ve been in this field since I was in college, Venturelli said, “and I’ve never seen what we’re facing now, with the devastation, the loss, and also the drugs that we’re seeing. These designer synthetics, they’re killing people by the hundreds and thousands, and unfortunately, it seems there’s no end in sight.” The tragic upward trend in Opioid overdose deaths has been driven largely by the spread of synthetic drugs such as fentanyl.
“But what’s different now,” Venturelli added, “is that more people are coming together like this. More people are stepping out of the shadows and sharing their experiences. Education is important; treatment is important. But so are communities coming together and not standing for what’s happening.”
Narcan is expected to be available over the counter this month, at pharmacies and grocery stores as well as from online retailers.
Joe Smith is the executive director of Long Beach Reach, a multi-service agency based in Long Beach, Franklin Square and Port Washington that offers rehabili-
tative and treatment services to young people and their families. The widespread availability of Narcan, Smith said, will be an important step in saving lives.
“I think that we certainly have seen, in our agency, experience of families who have been devastated by the loss of a loved one to overdose, and it’s really a tragedy, and so if anything can be done to prevent that, I think it’s a good thing,” Smith said. “Obviously, we need to have all the resources available, including treatments, other prevention activities, education, and efforts to combat this scourge. In society now more than ever, it is critically important that we make those resources available to everyone.”
The SAFE Coalition has new programs that it will implement this school year, including partnering with the Oceanside school district in a Parenting of Teens program, a support group program for parents of middle and high school students. The coalition will also continue its Teen Intervene program, which serves as an intervention service and an alternative to school suspension policies, offered to students who has are caught vaping or using other banned substances on school grounds.
“Instead of students being suspended and sent home,” Ericksen explained, “they’re given the option to go through the program to figure out if something is actually really wrong.”
The SAFE Coalition also focuses on combating underage drinking and marijuana use, which group leaders have found are two of the most often abused substances, and are known as gateways to harder drugs. Oceanside SAFE aims to change the social norms and stigmas that go with addiction — and being a parent of a child dealing with addiction.
“You learn a lot through Narcan training, but I think that the important part, too, is eradicating the stigma that it’s only for a specific group,” Eriksen said. “The more that people come together and say this is something they’ve experienced, too, it’s not a lonesome, isolating feeling, and it’s more of a community approach to make sure it’s preventive, and that we know more about it, we know how to stop it and we know how to reduce it.”
The 33rd Annual Robert C. McAvoy Labor Day 5-Mile Race took place Monday, Sept. 4 on the boardwalk at Laurelton Blvd. Registration took place at 6:30 a.m. and the race began at 8:00 a.m.
It was a five-mile, flat and fast course. The start and finish were both
on Laurelton Blvd. and the boardwalk. The race timing was by EliteFeats. Kallan Richardson, a Queens resident, came out for the race and finsihed in first place.
The city thanks sponsors McAvoy Plumbing and Randy Scott of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services.
I’m Alexis Pace, and I’m excited to introduce myself as the Democratic candidate for Nassau County Legislator in District 4.
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ward he wasn’t great about following up with his health.”
Danny put up with his breathing problems for four years. In February 2020, just before the pandemic hit, his wife and their son were planning to visit her parents in Jupiter, Florida. Danny wasn’t feeling great, but told them to go on the trip.
They arrived in Jupiter on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day. Heather lost contact with Danny on Feb. 16. The following day, she asked a friend to go into their house to check on Danny. He was in bed, and had died.
“We flew home,” Ward recounted, “and had to start living in our new normal.”
Shortly after Danny died, one of his former NYPD colleagues, Jesse Murphy, reached out to Heather and suggested that she and Andrew join an organization called Tuesday’s Children. Since Danny was a first responder at ground zero, Murphy said, the group could really help them.
Tuesday’s Children is a nonprofit based in Manhasset, founded after 9/11 with the purpose of providing a lifetime of healing for families that have been forever changed by terrorism, military conflict or mass violence. It offers family and adult programs, career resources, community service and youth mentoring.
“They do a mentoring program, and we thought a mentoring program would be great for Andrew,” Heather said.
“And honestly, through all of our loss, Tuesday’s Children has been the one constant in our lives since we lost
Danny.”
The first event the Wards did with the organization was a virtual 5K walk, in 2020. They walked through Long Beach with friends from Tuesday’s Children who walked in other towns. The
Wards have been hosted at Citi Field on Father’s Day, and have rung the bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. Andrew has also gotten to know a mentor named Jim, whom he met through Tuesday’s Children.
“Jim’s just a guy from Long Island,” Heather said. “He’s got a great sense of humor, and he really knows how to work with and really relates to Andrew. He lost his brother in the towers that day. Andrew was at tricky age when it happened — he was 11. It was tricky; he didn’t want to do things. But when Jim calls, it’s not a fight.”
Danny and Andrew were extremely close, and had a special bond. When his father died, Andrew was devastated, his mother said. He didn’t talk much, and seldom smiled. Now, thanks to Jim and Tuesday’s Children, Andrew laughs again.
They meet once or twice a month, and spend four to six hours together. They chat, and build flower boxes and birdhouses for Heather. She now has two huge flowerboxes.
If it weren’t for Tuesday’s Children, “I don’t think he’d be recovered as well,” Heather said. “For a boy to lose his dad, it’s just not a good thing. Having Jim twice a month, just to come and hang out with him, it’s a blessing. I don’t think that Andrew would be thriving as well as he is without them, and that’s the honest truth.”
The bar has been raised for Hofstra men’s soccer.
Hofstra repeated as conference champions last fall, but were unable to replicate its 2021 postseason success when the Pride reached the third round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history. The 2022 NCAA Tournament appearance was a brief one for Hofstra, with the Pride falling in the opening round at South Florida, 4-2.
“Expectations are much higher now,” said 35th-year head coach Richard Nuttall. “Our aspirations are much higher than the NCAA first round.”
The Pride was tabbed as favorites in the Coastal Athletic Association preseason poll collecting nine of 11 first place votes. Hofstra is aiming for its first CAA title three-peat since accomplishing the feat between 2004 and 2006.
Leading the charge to once again raise a CAA trophy and get Hofstra into the NCAA Tournament as the league’s automatic qualifier are junior midfielder Eliot Goldthorp and senior forward Ryan Carmichael. Goldthorp, a native of Leeds, United Kingdom, was named the CAA Preseason Player of the Year after earning Second-Team United Soccer Coaches All-America honors last season. Carmichael of Northern Island was 2022 CAA Player of the Year after placing second in the conference with 24 points.
“They are exceptional players who are athletically blessed and skillful,” said Nuttall of Carmichael and Goldthorp, who were both named to the 2023 Hermann Trophy Watch List.
The first goal of the 2023 featured Carmichael heading in a cross from Goldthorp in the second half of the Pride’s 1-0 season-opening win against Marist on Aug. 24.
Other offensive players Nuttall is hoping produce goals this season include senior Oliver Svalander of Sweden, who tallied 21 points last season, and junior Teddy Baker, who transferred from Lake
Erie College in Ohio.
Senior goalkeeper Wessel Speel anchors a Hofstra defense that held opponents to one goal or less in 15 matches. The Netherlands native was a ThirdTeam All-CAA selection in 2022 with 45 saves and five shutouts.
The backline also features Merrick native Pierce Infuso, Stefan Mason of the UK, Nico Oberrauch of Rome, Italy and Björn van Gorkom from the Netherlands.
Infuso, a former Bellmore JFK High School standout, made strides last season as a Second-Team All-CAA selection.
“We believe he is probably as good as anybody in the country as a one-on-one defender,” said Nuttall of Infuso. “His soccer IQ is getting better every year.”
The defense also includes West Hempstead High School native Shane Salmon, a Kellenberg High School product, who is back for a graduate year after playing 16 games with seven starts as a senior.
Other local players on the Pride roster include graduate Andrew Weiner, a Mepham High School graduate who arrives at Hofstra this season after competing for four seasons at Albany. Sophomore goalie Gino Cervoni, an Elmont native and Carey High School alum could eventually end up seeing time in net during his college career.
Hofstra kicks off its CAA season on Saturday at home against Long Island rival Stony Brook at 7 p.m. The nonleague schedule is highlighted by an Oct. 3 trip to ACC power Virginia, who the Pride tied 1-1 last season.
The success of the Hofstra men’s soccer program the last two years, which included an 8-2 blowout win at Penn State in the 2021 NCAA Tournament second round, has given Nuttall an added boost in recruiting.
“We’re known as an entertaining and an attacking team and I think a lot of young people want to come here and play an attacking style soccer,” he said. “Our results are pretty impressive over the last few years so we’re becoming a place that the top level recruits want to come to.”
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
6:00-9:00PM The Heritage Club at Bethpage 99 Quaker Meeting House Road Farmingdale, New York
KIMON BEKELIS, MD
Chairman
Neurointerventional Services at Catholic Health
Director
Stroke and Brain Aneurysm Center of Long Island
JOSEPH BENDEN LMSW, LNHA
Administrator
The Five Towns Premier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
MATTHEW J. BRUDERMAN
Chairman, Board of Directors
Nassau University Medical Center
JORDAN BRODSKY, MD
Medical Doctor & Rheumatologist
Rheumatology Consultants
TARA BUONOCORE-RUT
President & CEO
CenterLight Health System
JACK R. CALLISON, JR.
CEO
Sunrise Senior Living
DONNA CELARDO, MSN, RN, SAFE
Director
ACLD
CRISTINA CELLUCCI, MSN, RN, SAFE
Director of Nursing, Emergency Department
Mount Sinai South Nassau
REBECCA CHARLES, MHA
Director of Operations
Harmony Healthcare Long Island
STACEY CONKLIN, MSN, RN-BC,
MHCDS, NE-BC
Senior Vice President & Chief Nursing Officer
Mount Sinai South Nassau
NOVLET DAVIS, RN
Nurse Practitioner St. Francis Hospital
KRISTEN DESIDERI
Licensed Practical Nurse
Glengariff
DANIEL DIAZ
Orthotist & Prosthetist
Complete Orthopedic Services Inc.
MARK C. DRAKOS, MD
Medical Director
Hospital For Special Surgery
ADINA GELFAND-EREZ R-PAC
CEO
Bleu Glove Concierge
CAROL GOMES, MS, FACHE, CPHQ
CEO, Stony Brook University Hospital
Stony Brook Medicine
TIANA HAKIMI, DDS
Board Certified Pediatric Dentist
North Shore Smiles Pediatric Dentistry
JAY ITZKOWITZ, MD, MBA, FACEP
Chair of Department of Emergency Medicine
Mount Sinai South Nassau
JONATHAN JASSEY, DO FAAP
Founding Pediatrician
Concierge Pediatric Practice
LINDA JACOBS, MD
Pediatrician
Concierge Pediatric Practice
FELICIA KASTOW
Director of Marketing & Operations
Pure Mammography
CHRISTINE L. KIPPLEY, RN
VP Patient Care Services & Chief Nursing Officer
Peconic Bay Medical Center Northwell
ALEXANDER M. KOTLYAR, MD, FACOG
Reproductive Endocrinologist
Genesis Fertility and Reproductive Medicine
KEN LONG
Senior Vice President, Administration & Chief Clinical Integration Officer
Mount Sinai South Nassau
JEFFREY MCQUEEN M.B.A., L.C.D.C.
Executive Director
Mental Health Association of Nassau County
COLLEEN MERLO
CEO Association for Mental Health and Wellness
EUNICE E. PARK, MD, MPH
Dual-board certified Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon
Founder
AIREM Modern Beauty Rituals
DAVID PODWALL, MD President
Nassau County Medical Society
JOHN POHLMAN, CPA
Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer
Mount Sinai South Nassau
CHRISTINE PONZIO
Executive Director
Winters Center for Autism
KAITLIN POWERS
Regional Director of Admissions
Long Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS, PhD
President & CEO
Family & Children’s Association
AMY RECCO
COO, Owner & Vice President
Friends for Life Homecare & Medicaid Consultants
YOLANDA ROBANO-GROSS, LMSW, MHA
CEO
Options for Community Living, Inc.
STAVROULA SAVELIDIS, MS
Executive Director
Nassau County Medical Society
KERRI ANNE SCANLON, RN, FAAN
Executive Director
Glen Cove Hospital, Northwell Health
MELISSA SCHACHTER, MS, CCC-SLP, TSSLD
Director
Speech Language Place
GARY SCHLESINGER
President & CEO
ParCare Community Health Network
CMSGT (RET.) EDWARD SCHLOEMAN
Chairman
Operation Warrior Shield
AMY SILVA-MAGALHAES
COO
The Bristal Assisted Living
SHARON SOMEKH, MD, IBCLC
Pediatrician
Concierge Pediatric Practice
SPECIAL AWARDS
DISTINGUISHED VISIONARY
MICHAEL J. DOWLING
CEO
Northwell Health
DAVID BATTINELLI, MD
Executive Vice President & Physician-in-Chief, Northwell Health
Dean, Betsey Cushing Whitney Professor of Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
MARIA FLETCHER, PhD
Associate Dean for Nursing & Associate Professor
St. Joseph’s University
DEBORAH A. HUNT, PhD, RN
Dr. Betty L. Forest Dean and Professor of the College of Nursing and Public Health Adelphi University
PETER IGARASHI, MD Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook Stony Brook Medicine
NICOLE WADSWORTH
Dean & Professor New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM)
CHRISTOPHER R. VAKOC, MD/PhD
Alan and Edith Seligson Professor of Cancer Research Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
PROF. CHAD BOUTON
VP, Advanced Engineering, Director of Neural Bypass and Brain-Computer Interface Laboratory, Institute for Bioelectronic Medicine
Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health
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Two veteran healthcare administrators have been promoted at Mount Sinai South Nassau to help lead the hospital as it continues its robust growth and expansion as a regional medical center for the South Shore of Nassau County.
John Pohlman, Mount Sinai South Nassau’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer will take on the additional role of Chief Operating Officer, overseeing day-to-day operations of the 455-bed hospital, which employs more than 3,500 nurses, physicians, and support staff and has an annual operating budget of $600 million.
Ken Long, Senior Vice President for Administration, will take on the additional role of Chief Clinical Integration Officer as he continues to work with clinical leadership to oversee the hospital’s integration with the Mount Sinai Health System, bringing enhanced services to the South Shore. This includes a Comprehensive Stroke Program, and preparing for the opening of a new four-story patient pavilion next year that will pave the way, pending regulatory submissions and approv-
als, for open-heart surgery.
“John is an experienced leader who has helped us maintain our position as a financially strong institution that provides top-quality care,” said Adhi Sharma, MD, President of Mount Sinai South Nassau. “His operational skills and straightforward manner will help guide us as we continue to expand services for our patients.”
Pohlman succeeds Bill Allison, who retired after 50 years as a healthcare leader, serving in top administrative hospital positions on Long Island and in Brooklyn.
Pohlman joined Mount Sinai South Nassau in 2019 as CFO and Senior Vice President for Finance. In addition to the financial management of the hospital and its financial reporting and related internal controls, he will be responsible for directing the overall operations of the hospital as well as the development of Mount Sinai South Nassau’s strategic planning process.
Pohlman came to Mount Sinai South Nassau from Catholic Health Services’ St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center
in Smithtown, New York, where he had been Chief Operating Officer since 2018. From 2007 to 2011, Pohlman was a regional vice president of finance for Catholic Health Services, coordinating the financial operations of three acutecare hospitals and two skilled nursing facilities.
Since the partnership with the Mount Sinai Health System was announced on December 4, 2018, Long has been a catalyst of Mount Sinai South Nassau’s clinical integration pro-
cess. As Chief Clinical Integration Officer, Long, who joined Mount Sinai South Nassau in 2015, will continue to oversee service line strategic planning, program expansions, volume growth, and help with the hospital’s ongoing integration with the Health System and its other member hospitals. He will also oversee the planning, development, implementation, and maintenance of administrative services and departments as the hospital’s Senior Vice President for Administration.
Photos courtesy MSSN Two veteran healthcare administartors, John Pohlman and Ken Long, have been promoted to help lead the continuous growth of the hospital.
His operational skills and straightforward manner will help guide us.
AdHi SHArmA President, Mount Sinai South Nassau
The Long Beach Public School District started its new year of learning Wednesday, welcoming back students of all grades and ages. Lindell Elementary School had a warm wel-
come for its young learners, showering them with smiles — and balloons. Students were excited, parents were eager — and a little nervous — for their young scholars to get to class.
Lindell students Kaison Davison, 6, Kaliyna Davidson, 5, and Jaisleigh Mcclenic, 9, were all ready and eager to start school.
A Massachusetts resident reported on Aug. 31, his 7-year-old child did not return from a bicycle ride and was missing from a N. Forest Avenue residence they were visiting. The child was located 10 minutes later a short distance away.
A customer at Kasey’s Kitchen and Cocktails reported on Aug. 29, an employee of the licensed premises grabbed her arm.
A resident of S. Marion Place reported on Aug. 31 he received a threatening text message causing him alarm and to fear for his safety.
An employee of Molloy University reported on Aug. 31 he received a threatening email from a former student causing him alarm and to fear for his safety.
A motorist struck a utility pole in the vicinity of DeMott Avenue and Bedford Avenue on Aug. 30. The electric department was on the scene and replaced the utility pole.
An employee of Mercy Medical Center reported on Aug. 28, someone broke the window on her vehicle and stole property.
A resident of Bulson Road reported on Sept. 1, someone stole property that was placed outside the St. Agnes Cathedral School and Rockville Centre Village Hall.
A resident of Cedar Avenue reported on Sept. 2, someone stole property from her unlocked vehicle while parked in her driveway.
By KEPHERD DANIEL kdaniel@liherald.com
Rabbi Jeshayahu “Shai” Beloosesky is settling in with his new congregation after he was appointed the new rabbi at Temple Avodah, in Oceanside, the fourth rabbi in the history of the Reform temple. A native of Israel and a retired colonel in the Israel Defense Forces, Beloosesky takes over from Rabbi Uri Goren, who retired after guiding the congregation for 26 years. Goren is now Rabbi Emeritus.
Beloosesky, 61, who prefers to go by Rabbi Shai, is a third-generation Holocaust survivor. Raised in Israel by his parents and grandparents, he served in the Israeli military for 29 years, rising to assistant to the military secretary to the prime minister and minister of defense under the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He earned a doctorate in ministry from Hebrew Union College in New York City.
While he was in the military, Beloosesky decided he wanted to help people in other ways, which led him to become a rabbi. He began studying for rabbinical school in the military, with the permission of the IDF, and was ordained in 2011.
“I asked myself, ‘What are you going to do in the world?’” he recalled. “‘How are you going to make the world a better place?’ Then I decided this meant rabbinical school.”
He served as the leading rabbi of Congregation OrHadash in Haifa, Israel, and then decided to come to the United States in 2015, because he wanted to take on the challenge of reaching more people. For the past eight years he has been the spiritual leader of the Congregation Children of Israel synagogue in Augusta, Georgia.
“I came to the U.S. to try to take on another mission, to be a rabbi in the U.S., try to find a congregation and try to engage people,” Beloosesky said. “For me it was a great, great mission. It was a wonderful congregation, and eight years there to bring Judaism to people.”
Beloosesky has four boys, Eli, 27, Nave, 25, Aner, 21, and Lael, 17. Eli and Nave are in the military in Israel, and
Aner is serving in the Israeli Air Force. With his family in Israel, their father said, it was lonely in the beginning, but once he started to communicate with people and other families, his world began to open up.
“It’s about how much you as a person want to connect to other people,” the rabbi said. “I like to speak with people. I want to listen to my people. I want to listen to their feelings and emotions. I am a rabbi who will stand by my people. I will stand near everybody who is in need, because the divine God Almighty created all of us in his image — Muslims, Christians, and Jews.”
After eight years in Georgia, Beloosesky decided that he wanted to make a change in another area, and after interviewing with several congregations, he decided that Temple Avodah would be where he would carry out his next mission. He now lives in Long Beach, and said he wants to market Temple
Avodah outside the community.
“I think he’s a very dynamic individual,” said Eric Abbey, first vice president of the temple. He is diving in and really getting involved in not only Temple Avodah, but the community, and has re-energized a lot of the community, and we’re picking up right where we left off pre-Covid.”
Some of the new initiatives that Beloosesky is implementing at the synagogue include a one-hour Saturday open discussion group, Ask the Rabbi, and he has invited more men to take part in the lighting of Shabbat candles on Friday evenings. He is also recruiting more congregants take part in services in general, opening and closing the ark that holds the Torah scrolls.
“He has immediately made himself a vital part of our temple community,” its president, Matt Phillips, said. “Just like Rabbi Goren was, Rabbi Shai has become not only our rabbi but also our friend, in a short amount of time.”
As he continues to settle in, Beloosesky said he has ambitious goals for Temple Avodah. “I am happy here,” he said, “and my goal in the long run is that Temple Avodah Oceanside will be the center of the reform movement on the South Shore of Long Island.”
Iam a rabbi who will stand by my people.
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s the calendar turns to fall, it’s time once again to share in the delights of all things Irish at the annual Feis and Irish Festival, presented by the Nassau County Board of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
The annual spectacle is a beloved tradition that brings out visitors and participants to enthusiastically partake in a lively celebration of dance, music, piping, drumming, language, and athletics known as a feis (pronounced
The dancers are ready and the pipes are calling all to the 51st edition of the festival at Nickerson Beach on Sunday, Sept. 17, beginning at 9 a.m. It retains the distinction of being a full feis in the traditional meaning of that term, according to Nassau AOH, in that it showcases not only Irish step dancing competitions (many hundreds of dancers are expected this year), but also a full menu of Gaelic bagpiping, traditional Irish music and song, Irish language activities, games, sports, and even Irish soda
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Since 1975, George Thorogood & The Destroyers have sold more than 15 million albums, played more than 8,000 ferocious live shows, and built a catalog of classic hits that includes ‘Who Do You Love,’ ‘One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer’ and ‘Get A Haircut.’ Bad to the Bone,’ that definitive badass anthem deemed the most popular song for bikers by Spotify, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2022. Now ‘one of the most iconic bands in rock n’ roll history’ — the Rapid City Journal, among others — celebrates it all with their Bad All Over The World: 50 Years Of Rock tour. It’s been very good to be George Thorogood & The Destroyers all these years, rock on with them. ‘If you’re content, you may as well be dead.’ Thorogood says. ‘I think everyone has thoughts about retiring, but the phone keeps ringing. ‘You want me and The Destroyers to come to your town, set up our gear, wear some cool threads and play ‘Who Do You Love?’ Let’s rock!’
Friday, Sept. 8, 8 p.m. $89.50, $59.50, $49.50, $39.50. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. (800) 745-3000 or Ticketmaster.com or ParamountNY.com.
From as far back as 18th century Ireland, communities would come together for special festivals of dance and music — involving competitions, laughter and good times. That tradition continues here, where the AOH’s eight strong divisions organize competitions of dance and piping, bestowing awards on
tradition festivals of dance and music — involving divisions awards the best. Ancient Nassau since
The Ancient Order of Hibernians has presented Nassau County with its annual feis since 1972, celebrating Irish culture and history.
The Nassau AOH welcomes everyone to enjoy its traditional dance and piping competitions, along with an Irish Marketplace, featuring all sorts of Irish-related goods and treats for sale. And there’s a special area for the kids. And since it’s a Sunday, Mass will be said at noon.
It’s a day that highlights the always vibrant, age-old Irish traditions, with all eyes on those high-stepping lasses. The dance competitions make this the premiere feis in the New York metro region, a showcase of some the finest Irish dancers in the area (and beyond), which also attracts pipers from all over to perform.
By Karen BloomThe sheer energy of the step dancers fascinates the many visitors who come just to see them being judged. The dancers perform intricate steps, often arrayed in dazzlingly colorful outfits, dancing jigs, reels, hornpipes and set dances. Winners move on to national competition and even international competitions.
This year’s festival honors Tim Myles, a National Life Member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, Division 14, in Lynbrook/Rockville Centre.
“I am honored and humbled to be chosen for this position, alongside many great Hibernians in past years, including a bishop and congressman who have been the honoree,” Myles says. “I have been involved in the feis for over 30 years, but most proud of the 10 years I ran the dancing competition. I oversaw entries go from 240 competitors to over 8O0 dancers, thanks to Riverdance. Please come out and support Irish culture, because if we don’t, who will?”
Myles, who retired from Long Island Rail Road 10 years ago, is devoted to supporting the Irish community at large. Among his many efforts, he
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• Saturday and Sunday, noon-4 p.m.; Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Emily Lowe Hall Gallery, South Campus, Hempstead. For information and to RSVP, call (516) 463-5672, or visit Hofstra.edu/museum
• Nickerson Beach, 880 Lido Blvd., Lido Beach
“When We All Stand,” Hofstra University Museum of Art’s new exhibition, examines the collective power of the arts in society.
Curated by Alexandra Giordano — the museum’s assistant director of exhibition and collection — the exhibit underscores artists’ civic responsibility and influence.
Other festival enticements include Gaelic bagpiping, along with traditional music and song. Individual musicians demonstrate their talents and compete for prizes on a number of instruments — including the fiddle, tin whistle, flute, accordion, all forms of bagpipes, drums and keyboards, or any other instrument of their choice. Singers do the same, and judges have been known to award extra points for songs sung in the Irish language.
The Irish soda bread judging, a perennial favorite, is also one of the most hotly contested events of the day. There are as many styles of Irish soda bread as there are bakers. And, of course, the beach beckons. Bring a picnic lunch and settle in for a taste of Irish culture and hospitality.
“It highlights the vital role that artists have in activating democratic values that promise equality and freedom, encouraging civic engagement, and cultivating unity,”
Spend an electrifying evening with soul storyteller and ‘narrator of love’ Anthony Hamilton. The Grammy winner (and 17-time nominee) is known for his singular style that mixes Southern soul with R&B swag. Over the last decade, he’s produced platinum-selling albums and charttopping hits like ‘Comin’ From Where I’m From,’ ‘Charlene,’ ‘You’ve Got the Love I Need,’ and ‘You Made a Fool of Me.’ His recent album ‘Love is the New Black’ includes the solo single ‘Mercy,’ which launched his label My Music Box. The suave singersongwriter entices everyone with a voice characterized as smooth as the glowing embers of a dying fire and a glass of pinot noir. Now considered the king of modern soul and R&B, he burst onto the scene in the early 2000s, after cutting his teeth as a background singer for the likes of D’Angelo and 2Pac.
Pat McGann is quickly rising as one of the sharpest stand-ups on the comedy scene. A relative latecomer to comedy, he began doing standup at 31 after realizing he was not very good at selling packaging. He hustled his way to become the house emcee at Zanies Chicago, where he distinguished himself as especially adept at working the crowd. A husband and father of three young children, McGann’s appeal stems from his quick wit and relatable take on family life and marriage. In 2017, McGann began touring as the opening act for Sebastian Maniscalco, moving with him from clubs to theater, to arenas, including four soldout shows at Madison Square Garden. McGann’s relatively short, but impressive resume, includes Montreal’s famed Just For Laughs Festival, Gilda’s LaughFest, The Great American Comedy Festival, and more. McGann still calls Chicago home.
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Friday, Sept. 8, 8 p.m. NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury For information/tickets, visit WestburyMusicFair.org or LiveNation.com.
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Can art change the world? It’s a question that’s been at the focus of our collective culture for centuries. Now as society navigates the complexities of modern life, art as a path for social change is at the forefront of artistic expression.
Queen-mania rocks on. Killer Queen visits the Paramount stage, Saturday, Sept. 23, at 8 p.m., with their homage to the beloved band. Formed in the UK in 1993, Killer Queen played their first public shows at London University where Queen themselves had played their first shows 21 years earlier. Fronted by Patrick Myers as Freddie Mercury, critics have described Myers’ resemblance to Freddie Mercury as “spooky;” his uncanny likeness was further proven when he recorded a #1 hit single singing as Freddie Mercury on Fat Boy Slim’s record “The Real Life.” Of the band’s success, Myers has remarked “It’s been an amazing journey. We thought our band would last maybe a summer at the most but the concerts grew and grew and we’ve ended up playing and selling out the same arenas that Queen played at their peak.” Their success has continued here in the States, with regular stops at prestigious venues on their U.S. tours. Their expert musicianship, extraordinary energy, and accurate portrayal of the world’s greatest live band has rightfully earned them the title of Queen Royalty! Thrilling sell-out audiences across the globe the band recreates the high energy, powerful phenomenon that was Queen live. This quality, combined with Myers’ powerful three-and-a-half octave tenor range, expert musicianship and dynamic stage presence, has captivated audiences the world over. $49.50, $39.50, $35, $24.50. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. (800) 745-3000 or Ticketmaster.com or ParamountNY.com.
View the landmark exhibition “Modigliani and the Modern Portrait,” at Nassau County Museum of Art. Devoted to the way that Modigliani powerfully re-defined the art of portraiture, the show includes his masterworks along with paintings and drawings by his Parisian contemporaries (Picasso, van Dongen, Laurencin). Modigliani’s enduring influence on artists even in our own time is shown in a selection of Contemporary paintings by such important figures as David Hockney, Eric Fischl, Elizabeth Peyton and others. The exhibition is being curated by Dr. Kenneth Wayne, founder of The Modigliani Project, which authenticates paintings and drawings (two of the works in the show have been recently approved by the committee). Through Nov. 5. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.
The South Shore Audubon Society welcomes all to join its members for a bird walk, at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area, Saturday, Sept. 9, starting at 9 a.m. Walk leaders, other birders and nature enthusiasts are happy to share their knowledge and experience with you. Bring binoculars. 500 Slice Drive, off Waukeena Ave. To register, text your name and contact information to (516) 467-9498. Also text regarding questionable weather conditions. For more information, visit SSAudubon.org
Celebrate fall and all the colors of the season with the family at Long Island Children’s Museum, Saturday, Sept. 23, 12-2 p.m. Use your imagination to make animal art out of colorful leaf shapes, focusing on the seasonal shades of vibrant yellow, deep purple, and fiery orange, at the dropin program. Suitable for ages 3 and up. Long Island Children’s Museum, Museum Row, Garden City. (516) 224-5800 or LICM.org
Taco Tuesday
The Cabana offers having its weekly taco Tuesday specials all day long, Tuesday, Sept. 12. Tacos are available for $1, with a twodrink minimum, for all restaurantgoers, at 1034 W. Beech St. For more information, call (516) 8891345 or visit TheCabanaLBNY.com.
Do you have questions about your computer or laptop? Join Long Beach Library’s Tech Guy, every Wednesday, 2-3 p.m., to get answers to your pressing tech questions. 111 W. Park Ave. For information, visit LongBeachPL.org.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage
Month with some kite Flying, Saturday, Sept. 23. The Long Beach Latino Association hosts the event from 12 to 2 p.m. on the Magnolia Boulevard beach. For more information, visit LBLatinoCivic.org.
Arts in the Plaza
Arts in the Plaza takes over Kennedy Plaza, each Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Browse among varied vendors. Handcrafted art, custom jewelry, gifts, photography and more can be seen and purchased. For more information, visit ArtsInThePlaza.com.
Registration is open for the St. Jude Walk/Run Long Island, presented by Tweezerman International during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Sunday, Sept. 10, 9 a.m., at Marcum Corporate Offices & Park. The St. Jude Walk/ Run offers everyone a chance to walk or run and gather in-person or virtually to raise funds and awareness for the St. Jude mission: Finding cures. Saving children. Besides the walk/run, the event features entertainment, food and activities for the whole family to enjoy. Participants will even have the opportunity to connect with St. Jude patients and learn firsthand how their support makes a difference. 10 Melville Park Road, Melville. Register or learn more at StJude.org/walklongisland.
Long Beach City Council meets, Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m., on the sixth floor of City Hall.
1 W. Chester St. It will also be streamed on YouTube. For more information, visit LongBeachNY. gov.
The South Shore Audubon Society invites all to a lecture program, “Researching Cassowaries, the Deadliest Birds on Earth,” with Dr. Todd Green, Tuesday, Sept. 12,7:30 p.m., at Freeport Memorial Library. Most people have never heard of these large flightless birds native to Australia and New Guinea, which are critically important to the rain forest ecosystems they inhabit. They have daggershaped claws, crown-like structures and brightly colored heads and necks. They are so territorially aggressive; they are among the deadliest birds on earth. Paleontologists use them to help untangle the mysteries of long extinct dinosaurs. Dr. Green, a Postdoctoral Teaching fellow at NYIT, is one of the few cassowary researchers in the world. 144 W. Merrick Road (at S. Ocean Avenue) in Freeport. For more information about the program or South Shore Audubon, go to SSAudubon. org.
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Nassau BOCES, in partnership with Nassau County School Districts, holds a Job Fair, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Freeport Recreation Center. It promises to be an exceptional opportunity for job seekers. Representatives from Nassau BOCES, SCOPE Education Services and several school districts will offer an exclusive platform for candidates to explore a wide range of exciting career opportunities within the field of education. Attendees can look forward to engaging with representatives from the participating school districts. Job seekers, whether seasoned professionals or fresh graduates, are encouraged to attend this event to explore positions as Teacher Aides, Bus Drivers, Security Personnel, Naturalists, Bus Dispatchers, Registered Professional Nurses, Maintainers, Food Service Personnel, Cleaners/Laborers, HVAC and Electrical technicians, Groundskeepers, Monitors and more. Each participating district, offering insights into their educational programs, work culture, and career advancement opportunities; face-to-face interactions with district representatives, allowing candidates to ask questions, discuss job openings, and showcase their skills; networking opportunities and on-site resources and workshops to help attendees refine their job search strategies, improve interview techniques, and create effective resumes. Attendees are encouraged to dress professionally, bring copies of their resumes, and prepare to make an impression. 130 E. Merrick Road, Freeport. Visit NassauBoces.org/ jobfair for information.
Grab your lunch and join Nassau County Museum of Art Docent Riva Ettus for her popular “Brown Bag Lecture,” now back on-site at Nassau County Museum of Art, Thursday, Oct. 19, 1 p.m. Enjoy an in-depth presentation on the current exhibition “Modigliani and the Modern Portrait.” Participants are invited to ask questions at the end of the program and to join the 2 p.m. public tour of the exhibit. 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.
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BEST BAR/PUB: Tap Room
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Tap Room founders James Bonanno and David Johnson from day one sought to take the warmth and personality that you can feel at a traditional local pub, and combine it with elevated pub fare that would stand on its own. Tap Room frequently rotates their draft menu, incorporating both national and local craft brewers. Discovering new beers, bringing back old favorites and encouraging adventurous customers to order beer flights instead of just pints, and allowing them to fully explore everything the Craft Beer menu has to offer is what they’re all about.
BEST WINERY:
Pindar Vineyards
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Pindar Vineyards was born of the vision of Dr. Herodotus “Dan” Damianos and his great love for wine. He is known as one of the original pioneers of Long Island Wine Country and started our story in 1979. The family-run vineyard/winery/tasting room combo grows over twenty varieties of grapes and produces a unique selection of wine styles - from bold red blends, to steel fermented, fruit forward whites. Pindar Vineyards encompasses more than 300 scenic acres. The Damaino-family grows 20 varieties of grapes, crafting them into some twenty three varieties and proprietary blends. They produce 70,000 cases of wine a year, making Pindar the largest vineyard on LI.
BEST SPORTS BAR:
Michael’s Billiards
4060 Austin Blvd., Island Park (516) 548-7707
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BEST BREWERY & BEST LONG ISLAND CRAFT BEER:
Barrier Brewing Co.
3001 New St., A2, Oceanside (516) 594-1028
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South Shore’s Barrier Brewing Co. made their first batch in June 2010 and since then have grown to produce numerous brands and styles of beer available in cans, bottles, or draft. Plus, they offer specialty releases exclusive only to the brewery’s tasting room. Discover the art of brewing beer with each sip, and admire the incredible, colorful artwork that goes with each label. The beer garden, and 3rd Rail Food Truck is open from Wednesday to Sunday; but Barrier Tap Room is open daily for curbside or takeout.
BEST PLACE TO BUY BEER & BEST BEVERAGE CENTER:
Freeport Beverage Propane Exchange & Ice
331 Guy Lombardo Ave., Freeport (516) 379-1659
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At Freeport Beverage Propane Exchange and Ice, they’ve got your thirst, grilling, and chilling needs covered! Quench your thirst with a variety of refreshing sodas and beers, refill your propane tanks for a sizzling barbecue, and grab ice bags to keep your drinks and snacks cool. One-stop excitement and convenience await you here!
Pool, darts, food, drinks, and big screens — all the ingredients for a good time. Michael’s Billiards is the perfect location to catch the game or be a part of one by joining an APA league or dart team. You can even start your own league with friends or family and make it a tradition. Have a classic night and make great memories! BEST
Sip & Say Craft Wine & Spirits
2067 Merrick Rd, Merrick (516) 992-8111
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Sip & Say Craft Wine & Spirits was inspired by owner very own certified Sommelier, Adam Schneider, and his 20+ year career in the wine industry. At Sip & Say, the family-run business, these stories come to life through taste and education. Their craft wines & spirits are hand picked to assure quality at every price point. Sip & Say will also engrave a special message, for free, on almost every bottle purchased! They also offer fully customized, engraved bottles, featuring the option for photographs, at affordable prices.
On Saturday and Sunday at the Recreation Center Fields, the community gathered for Robbie’s Field Day, featuring events like a kickball tournament, flag football, and relay races. This was followed by Robbie’s Day, an Asthma Awareness Community Fair, held on Monday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the MLK Center.
On his eighth birthday, Sept. 30, 2001, Robert D. Gause, known locally as ‘Robbie,’ tragically died due to asthma complications. Robbie’s Day serves as a community initiative to create asthma awareness and advocate for healthier lifestyle decisions.
In 2004, the first Robbie’s Day was launched in Long Beach, and in 2007, The Robert D. Gause Foundation was founded to raise awareness about asthma and educate people on its effects.
“Even though there is no cure for asthma, it can be treated and controlled. Through our foundation, we have been able to reach out to our hometown neighborhood of Long Beach and surrounding areas by educating families about asthma and performing youth outreach services,” Spencer Gause, Robbie’s father, and foundation founder said.
On Saturday, 75 kids attended Field Day, and on Sunday, the number rose to 100 attendees. The highlight was Rob -
bie’s Day on Monday, which saw a turnout of 600 people. Additionally, over 350 book bags filled with supplies and asthma information were given away.
Gause highlighted that with each year, the events attract more participants and interest.
Over the days, 600 hamburgers, 800 hotdogs, and 1,000 juices and water were served. There were also delicious Italian ices to top it all off. The foundation ensured everyone was well-fed and
hydrated throughout the days of the events.
The foundation partnered up with the Long Beach Martin Luther King Center and additionally received donations from Empire Wind, The Cabana, D2E gear, and the CSEA Local 830 unit 7569.
“This day means so much to me. It’s such a huge fun day so families come together. If I can just help one person not to go through what we went through
its well worth it,” Gause said. “Losing Robbie had us all in shock, so we turned his death into something amazing.”
The Robert D. Gause Foundation has more plans for the upcoming year. They will host four group meetings: two for parents and two inclusive of both parents and kids. Furthermore, the Foundation plans to provide a $500 scholarship for students with asthma, providing them with both recognition and financial support.
The Brain Injury Association of New York State is holding its annual March on for Brain Injury Walk at Eisenhower Park on Saturday, Sept. 9. The walk raises awareness and funds for those who are dealing with a brain injury — which could be caused by cancer, a stroke, physical injury, benign tumors — among a multitude of other things.
The event brings together brain injury survivors, caregivers and professionals in the field to celebrate and honor the memory of the brain injury community. This year’s walk will recognize medical honoree, Dr. Jason Ewards, who serves as the medical director of Inpatient Rehab and Brain Injury at the New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.
Additionally, the association will honor Colin Clive, as Long Island’s posthumous honoree. Clive, who is originally from Massapequa, died on July 3, 2023 at 31, following a lengthy battle with glioblastoma, which caused injuries to the brain.
Clive was first diagnosed with cancer back in 2018, his caretaker Roni Schneider said. She’d known Clive for most of his life, as her son was friends with him. Schneider is a nurse, and took care of her husband who had a stroke, so she was familiar with taking care of patients with brain injuries.
In 2020, Clive went into remission, thanks to success of several treatments.
What threw a massive wrench into Clive’s journey with cancer, is that both his parents unexpectedly died within 6 days of each other, in January 2021.
Clive’s cancer returned in December 2022, and again, he went through different forms of treatment and experi-
“He knew that something was progressing,” Schneider said, “and in April, upon a visit that we were in the city for to get his immunotherapy, they said, you know, we’re sorry but we’re not going to be giving it to you anymore. The cancer was too far progressed. There’s nothing they could do anymore.”
Schneider said Clive’s courage and attitude throughout his battle was commendable.
“In all his support groups, he never really talked about himself,” she said. “He was always there, lending support to everybody else. And the only time he really talked about himself and his sadness, was the anniversary of his parents’ deaths.
“But other than that, he always just so genuinely happy for everyone else,” she said. “He was a very remarkable young man.”
“Colin was truly an inspiration,” said Eileen Reardon, executive director of the Brain Injury Association. “His grit and determination throughout his illness was admi-
rable and though he is not with us, we look forward to honoring him and his fighting spirit at the March On for Brain Injury Walk.”
Schneider added that Clive had an excellent support group, made of his dad’s friends, who would visit him and help him, every day. “They called me the quarterback,” she said. “I was there to you know, navigate everything. It took a village.”
The March On for Brain Injury Walk occurs virtually and in three physical locations, including Long Island. The Long Island walk is striving to raise $40,000. Registration online for the walk closes on Sept. 7, but people can donate to the cause through the end of the month. Registration on the day of the walk opens at 10 a.m., in the Scarlett Oak Picnic Area of the park. The walk itself starts at noon.
For more information and to learn more about the association, its work and the Eisenhower walk, visit MarchOn.BIANYS.org.
Moriches Field Brewing Company received $18,750 to revitalize an empty downtown space.
(Cheers to that.)
Revitalization grants are just one of the ways we help businesses on Long Island and in the Rockaways. For Moriches Field Brewing Company, a grant from our economic development program was a perfect fit to help them renovate a previously vacant property. A discount through our Vacant Space Revival Program saved them more than $4,000 on their electric bills, and rebates for upgrading to LED lighting are keeping them saving month after month.
Helping revitalize our Island, one business at a time, is something we’re proud to be part of and something definitely worth celebrating.
Grants | Rebates | Incentives | Assessments | Community Support
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Lido Beach Town Park hosted an All-Women’s Lifeguard Tournament last month, which tested the ability of some of the nation’s best female lifeguards.
The tournament featured events such as the one-mile distance run, Ironwoman and surfboard rescue competitions and an Ocean-Kayak Challenge, in addition to others.
The tournament marked the first
time the Town of Hempstead has hosted the event, which included 15 teams of over 250 female lifeguards from states as far away across the region. In addition to competing, the Town of Hempstead’s fleets of lifeguards serve some of the nation’s most popular beaches. The Town of Hempstead notes that their beaches have not had a drowning in the presence of on-duty lifeguards in over 80 years.
Bob Arkow/Herald photos Some
Apart from the effect that diet and exercise have in extending healthful life are the mental and social aspects. As noted author Norman Cousins wrote, “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live.”
Robbins advises that the old saying “use it or lose it” applies as much to the brain as it does to muscles. Keys to cognitive health are engagement with life and having goals and things to look forward to.
“The elders most likely to experience dementia are those who spend their days watching television or wandering aimlessly around the mall. On the other hand, those who are contributing to the lives of others, who are engaged in some way in making the world a better or more beautiful place, not only more fully retain their cognitive faculties as they grow older, but often find themselves expanding into new levels of awareness and understanding.”
Finally, the old Tina Turner song “What’s
Love Got to Do With It?” comes to mind. The answer? A lot. Studies show that selfabsorbed people are far less healthy. One doctor advises “Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.”
One study of a group of women suffering from metastatic breast cancer showed that those who participated in a support group lived an average of 37 months while those who went it alone lived an average of 17 months. The women in the support group also experienced fewer mood swings and less pain and fear.
Modern research is now repeatedly finding that your relationship with others is medically potent. Your connections with the significant people in your life — if they are positive and loving — can prevent stress-induced illness, greatly contribute to your health and healing, and add many years to your life.
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT
COUNTY OF NASSAU
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST MICHELE AVILA, ET AL.,
Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered January 30, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on September 20, 2023 at 2:00PM, premises known as 328 EAST CHESTER STREET, LONG BEACH, NY 11561. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Long Beach, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 59, Block 139, Lot 49 and 50. Approximate amount of judgment $383,969.90 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #612184/2017. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the court appointed referee will cancel the foreclosure auction. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine”. Oscar P. Prieto, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221
17-005555 77091
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE
SUPREME COURT
COUNTY OF NASSAU
FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plaintiff
AGAINST DENNIS P.
O’MALLEY AKA DENNIS
PATRICK OMALLEY, CANDY MCLAUGHLIN, ET AL., Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale
duly entered June 5, 2023, I, the undersigned
Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on September 19, 2023 at 2:30PM, premises known as 221 NEW YORK AVENUE, LONG BEACH, NY 11561. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Long Beach, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 59, Block 243, Lot 46. Approximate amount
of judgment $539,159.35 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #600531/2018. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the court appointed referee will cancel the foreclosure auction. Foreclosure
Auctions will be held
“Rain or Shine”. George P. Esernio, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221
18-007128 77020 141263
COMPANY.
NAME:
NEUROfit USA, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York, (SSNY) on 5/22/2023. NY Office location: Nassau County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to:268 East Park Avenue, Long Beach , NY 11561
Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.
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LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
In the Matter of the Application Of Empire Offshore Wind LLC For A Certificate Of Environmental Compatibility And Public Need For The Construction Of Approximately 12 Miles Of Transmission Lines From The Boundary Of New York State Territorial Waters To A Point Of Interconnection In Town Of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, Case 22-T-0346 (the “NY Project”).
3. The new Hampton Road substation in Oceanside in the Town in Hempstead, New York which will include substation facilities that will provide the necessary breaker arrays and 345-kV/138-kV transformers; and
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF NASSAU TOWD POINT MORTGAGE
TRUST 2018-3, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE
Plaintiff, Against ELISTER MCCRAY, CRAIG SCOTT THOMAS AKA CRAIG THOMAS, ET AL.,
Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 06/05/2023, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, on the North Front Steps of the Nassau County Courthouse, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on 9/26/2023 at 2:00 p.m., premises known as 51 East Market Street, Long Beach, NY 11561, And
Described As Follows:
ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Long Beach, County of Nassau and State of New York
Section 59 Block 94 Lot 73, 74, And 75.
The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $469,217.53 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale;
Index # 609677/2021
Peter Kramer, Esq.,
Referee.
SHELDON MAY & ASSOCIATES Attorneys at Law, 255 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, NY 11570
Dated: 6/27/2023 File
Number: 37935 RS
141490
Pursuant to Article VII of the Public Service Law of the State of New York (Article VII), Empire Offshore Wind LLC and EW Offshore Wind Transport Corporation (Empire or the Applicant) is providing notice of a supplement to Empire’s application (Application) for a Certificate of Environmental
Compatibility and Public Need (Certificate) for the proposed construction and operation of the portion of the transmission system for the Empire Wind 2 offshore wind generating facility located in New York State (the NY Project). The Article VII process is limited to the permitting of Empire Wind 2 within New York State, and construction of the NY Project is not expected to commence before 2024.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE
THAT, on August 1, 2023, and August 15, 2023, the Applicant filed a Supplement in the aboveentitled matter with the New York State Public Service Commission (Commission).
DESCRIPTION OF THE SUPPLEMENT
The Supplement clarifies that the NY Project will include the following:
1. Two (2) threecore 345-kV high voltage alternating-current submarine export cables;
2. An onshore substation in the Village of Island Park which will house major control components for the electrical system and perform functions such as voltage regulation, reactive power compensation, and harmonic filtering;
4. Four (4) 138-kV loop-in / loopout line cable circuits, located within an approximately 0.1-mi (0.2-km) long cable corridor from the Hampton Road substation to existing LIPA transmission lines located under Lawson Boulevard in Oceanside, New York. A copy of the Supplement has been filed with the Commission and served upon the Town Supervisor of the Town of Hempstead, the Mayor of the Village of Island Park, the City Manager of the City of Long Beach, New York, and other statutory parties. A copy of the Supplement will also be available on the Department of Public Service website (www.dps.ny.gov), available by clicking on “File Search” (located under the heading “Commission Files”), and entering “22-T-0346” in the “Search by Case Number” field. Additional information can be found on the NY Project website at https://www.empirewind. com/article-vii and at the following locations:
Long Beach Public Library
111 West Park Avenue Long Beach, NY 11561
Seaford Public Library
2234 Jackson Avenue Seaford, NY 11783
Point Lookout Branch
79 Lido Blvd. Point Lookout, NY 11569
Island Park Library
176 Long Beach Road Island Park, NY 11558
West End Branch 903 West Beech Street Long Beach, NY 11561
Hempstead Public Library
115 James A. Garner Way Hempstead, NY 11550
Queens Public LibraryPeninsula
92-25 Rockaway Beach Boulevard Rockaway Beach, NY 11693
Queens Public LibraryArverne
312 Beach 54 Street Arverne, NY 11692
141553
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF NASSAU NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff, Against JUANITA SLADE, JOSEPH DAMBRA, et al., Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 12/22/2016, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, The North Front Steps of the Nassau County Courthouse, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501. This Auction will be held rain or shine on 10/3/2023 at 2:00 p.m., premises known as 28 East Hudson Street, Long Beach, New York 11561, A.K.A. 28 Hudson Street, Long Beach, New York 11561, And Described As Follows:
ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Long Beach, County of Nassau and State of New York Section 59 Block 94 Lot 17, 18, And 19. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $495,395.75 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 13-014225 If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the then Court Appointed Referee will cancel the Foreclosure Auction. Scott H Siller, Esq., Referee.
MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC, 10 MIDLAND AVENUE, SUITE 205, PORT CHESTER, NY 10573
Dated: 8/10/2023 File Number: 548-0119 RS 141628
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and Municipal Home Rule of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing will be held in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Hempstead, New York, on the 19th day of September, 2023, at 7:00 o’clock in the evening of that day to consider the enactment of a local law to amend Chapter 202 of the code of the Town of Hempstead to INCLUDE “REGULATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS” to limit parking at the following locations:
(NR)LAWRENCE
LAWRENCE AVENUE (TH 360/23) East SideSection 202-32 15 MINUTE PARKINGstarting at a point 198 feet south of the south curbline of Mott Avenue, south for a distance of 22 feet.
OCEANSIDE BEDELL STREET (TH 374/23) South SideSection 202-13 NO
PARKING 8AM TO 6PM EXCEPT SATURDAYS,
SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYSstarting at a point 20 feet west of the west curbline of Foxdale Avenue, west for a distance of 98 feet.
POINT LOOKOUT
LIDO BOULEVARD(TH
327(B)/23)South SideSection 202-3 TWO HOUR PARKING 8AM TO 7PM - starting at the east curbline of Cedarhurst Avenue, east to a point 25 feet west of the west curbline of Freeport Avenue.
LIDO BOULEVARD(TH 327(B)/23)South SideTWO HOUR PARKING 8AM TO 7PM - starting at a point 23 feet east of the east curbline of Freeport Avenue, east to the west curbline of Garden City Avenue.
ROOSEVELT
TAYLOR AVENUE (TH 346/23) South SideSection 202-6 NO
PARKING 9AM TO 9PM
EXCEPT SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYSstarting at a point 11 feet east of the east curbline of King Street, east for a distance of 82feet.
KING STREET (TH 346/23) East SideNO PARKING 9AM TO 9PM EXCEPT
SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYS - starting at a point 8 feet south of the south curbline of Taylor Avenue, south for a distance of 104 feet.
WANTAGH
JACKSON AVENUE (TH 345/23) South Side -
Section 202-10 NO
PARKING 9AM TO 5PM
EXCEPT SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYSstarting at the eastcurbline of Willow Street, east for a distance of 105 feet.
WOODMERE BRYANT STREET (TH 332/23) North Side -
Section 202-17 NO
PARKING 12 NOON TO 2PM - starting at a point 20 feet west of the west curbline of Longacre Avenue, west for a distance of 70 feet
ALSO, to REPEAL from Chapter 202 “REGULATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS” to limit parking from the following locations:
LEVITTOWN TULIP
LANE (TH 53/04) East Side -
Section 202-23 NO
PARKING 12 MIDNIGHT TO 12 NOONstarting at a point 128 feet north of the north curbline of Cornflower Road, north then east for a distance of 152 feet.
(Adopted 5/18/04)
LIDO BEACH LIDO
BOULEVARD (TH 120/82)
South Side -
Section 202-2 ONE
HOUR PARKING 8AM TO 7PM - starting 60 feet east of the east curbline of Cedarhurst Avenue, east to the west curbline of Freeport Avenue.
(Adopted 6/15/82)
POINT LOOKOUT
LIDO BOULEVARD (TH 234/83) South SideSection 202-3 ONE
HOUR PARKING
BETWEEN SIGNSstarting at the east curbline of Cedarhurst Avenue, east for a distance of 60 feet.
(Adopted 6/26/84)
LIDO BOULEVARD (TH
547-15) South SideTWO HOUR PARKING
8AM TO 7PM - starting from the east curbline of Freeport Avenue, east to the west curbline of Garden City Avenue.
(Adopted 4/26/16)
WEST HEMPSTEAD GRANT AVENUE (TH 194/23) North SideSection 202-20 30
MINUTE PARKING 7AM TO 11PM BETWEEN SIGNS - starting at a point 54 feet east of the east curbline of Hempstead Gardens Drive, east for adistance of 38 feet.
(Adopted 6/20/23)
GRANT AVENUE (TH 194/23) South Side30 MINUTE PARKING
7AM TO 11PM BETWEEN SIGNS - starting at a point 40 feet east of the east curbline of Hempstead Gardens Drive, east for adistance of 114 feet.
(Adopted 6/20/23)
WOODMERE BRYANT STREET(TH 277/11) North SideSection 202-17 NO PARKING 12 NOON TO 2PM - starting at a point 42 feet west of the west curbline of Longacre Avenue, west for a distance of 90 feet.
(Adopted 1/10/12)
ALL PERSONS INTERESTED shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposal at the time and place aforesaid.
Dated: September 6, 2023 Hempstead, New York BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD
DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 141711
562/23. - 567/23. LIDO BEACH - Neal Milch, Special exception to construct accessory structure (sculpture with propane tank) higher and larger than permitted, exceeding horizontal maximum on both sides, not permitted in front yard setback & with lot area occupied variance; Special exception to maintain 2nd accessory structure (four (4) A/C units with storage) not permitted & with lot area occupied variance; Special exception to maintain 3rd accessory structure (outdoor shower) not permitted with more than required rear yard setback and not permitted in front yard on Woodhail St.; Special exception to maintain 4th accessory structure (trash enclosure) not permitted, with less than required rear yard setback, not permitted in front yard on Leamington St. & with lot area occupied variance; Maintain 8’ high masonry wall larger than pool installation area & pool not located in the rear yard; Maintain 8’ high masonry wall forward of the dwelling which may substantially obstruct line of sight., N/W cor. Leamington St. & Ocean Blvd. a/k/a 84 Leamington St. ALL PAPERS PERTAINING TO THE ABOVE HEARING ARE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AT THE BOARD OF APPEALS, TOWN HALL, 1 WASHINGTON STREET, HEMPSTEAD, NY 11550. This notice is only for new cases in Lido Beach within Town of Hempstead jurisdiction. There are additional cases in different hamlets, towns and villages on the Board of Appeals calendar. The full calendar is available at https://hempsteadny.gov/ 509/Board-of-Appeals
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BY THE BOARD OF APPEALS
Pursuant to New York State Town Law Article 16, New York State Public Officers Law Article 7, and the Town of Hempstead Building Zone Ordinance, NOTICE is hereby given that the BOARD OF APPEALS of the Town of Hempstead will hold a public hearing in the Old Town Hall, 350 Front Street, Room 230, Second Floor, Hempstead, New York on 9/13/23 at 2:00 P.M. to consider the following applications and appeals:
THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED
STARTING AT 2:00 P.M.
The internet address of the website streaming for this meeting is https://hempsteadny.gov/ 576/Live-Streaming-Video Interested parties may appear at the above time and place. At the call of the Chairman, the Board will consider decisions on the foregoing and those on the Reserve Decision calendar and such other matters as may properly come before it.
141751
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and Municipal Home Rule of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing will be held in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Hempstead, New York, on the 19th day of September, 2023, at 7:00 o’clock in the evening of
that day to consider the enactment of a local law to amend Section 202-1 of the code of the Town of Hempstead to INCLUDE “PARKING OR STANDING
PROHIBITIONS” at the following locations:
BELLMORE
FARMERS AVENUE (TH 378/23) East SideNO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting from the south curbline of Merrick Road,south for a distance of 30 feet.
EAST MEADOW
BELLMORE ROAD (TH 331/23) West SideNO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the north curbline of Lexington Avenue, north for a distance of 40 feet.
BELLMORE ROAD (TH 331/23) West SideNO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the south curbline of Lexington Avenue, south for a distance of 40 feet.
ROOSEVELT AVENUE (TH 351/23) South SideNO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the west curbline of Lincoln Avenue, West for a distance of 42 feet.
ELMONT L STREET (TH 334/23)
North SideNO PARKING ANYTIMEstarting at a point 56 feet east of the east curbline of Cameron Street, east for a distance of 61 feet.
(NR) FLORAL PARK
PLAINFIELD AVENUE (TH 140(B)/23) East SideNO STOPPING ANYTIMEstarting at a point 78 feet south of the south curbline of Vandewater Avenue, south for a distance of 32 feet.
FRANKLIN SQUARE
LLOYD STREET (TH 336/23) North SideNO PARKING ANYTIMEstarting at a point 30 feet west of the west curbline of Pacific Avenue, west for a distance of 72 feet.
(NR) FREEPORT
LENOX AVENUE (TH 341/23) West SideNO PARKING ANYTIMEstarting at the southcurbline of Seaman Court, south to the roadway terminus then east for a distance of 33 feet.
POINT LOOKOUT
LIDO BOULEVARD (TH 327(B)/23) South SideNO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the west curbline of Freeport Avenue, west for a distance of 25 feet.
LIDO BOULEVARD (TH 327(B)/23) South SideNO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the east curbline of Freeport Avenue, east for a distance of 23 feet.
LIDO BOULEVARD (TH 327(B)/23) North Side -
NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the west curbline of Freeport Avenue, west for a distance of 25 feet.
LIDO BOULEVARD (TH 327(B)/23) North SideNO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the east curbline of Freeport Avenue, east for a distance of 23 feet.
ROOSEVELT PARK AVENUE (TH 350/23) East SideNO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting from the south curbline of Smith Street, south for a distance of 32 feet.
UNIONDALE MERILLON STREET (TH 380/23) South SideNO PARKING ANYTIMEstarting at a point 73 feet west of the west curbline of Uniondale Manor Parkway, west for a distance of 18 feet.
WANTAGH CYPRESS STREET (TH 356/23) East SideNO PARKING ANYTIMEstarting at a point 10 feet south of the south curbline of Walters Avenue, south for a distance of 53 feet.
ALSO, to REPEAL from Section 202-1 “PARKING OR STANDING PROHIBITIONS” from the following locations: (NR) LAWRENCE LAWRENCE AVENUE (TH 224/22) East SideNO PARKING ANYTIMEstarting at a point 198 feet south of the south curbline of Mott Avenue, south for a distance of 42 feet.
(Adopted 7/19/22)
ROOSEVELT PARK AVENUE (TH 141/23) East SideNO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting from the north curbline of East Greenwich Avenue, north for a distance of 60 feet.
(Adopted 6/6/23)
ALL PERSONS INTERESTED shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposal at the time and place aforesaid.
Dated: September 6, 2023
Hempstead, New York
BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD
DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR.
Supervisor
KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 141703
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and Municipal Home Rule of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing will be held in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington
Street, Hempstead, New York, on the 19th day of September, 2023, at 7:00 o’clock in the evening of that day to consider the enactment of a local law to amend Section 197-5 of the code of the Town of Hempstead to INCLUDE “ARTERIAL STOPS” at the following locations:
FRANKLIN SQUARE
CLEVELAND STREET (TH 307/23) - STOP -
All traffic traveling east bound on Fenworth Boulevard shall come to a full stop.
CLEVELAND STREET (TH 307/23) - STOP -
All traffic traveling west bound on Fenworth Boulevard shall come to a full stop.
HARRISON STREET (TH 307/23) - STOP -
All traffic traveling east bound on Fenworth Boulevard shall come to a full stop.
HARRISON STREET (TH 307/23) - STOP -
All traffic traveling west bound on Fenworth Boulevard shall come to a full stop.
OCEANSIDE WEIDNER AVENUE (TH 362/23) - STOP -
All traffic traveling south bound on Dambly Avenue shall come to a full stop.
POINT LOOKOUT FREEPORT AVENUE (TH 327(B)/23) - STOP -
All traffic traveling east bound on Lido Boulevard shall come to a full stop.
FREEPORT AVENUE (TH 327(B)/23) - STOP -
All traffic traveling west bound on Lido Boulevard shall come to a full stop.
UNIONDALE HEMPSTEAD BOULEVARD (TH 349/23) - STOP -
All traffic traveling north bound on Berkley Street shall come to a full stop. HEMPSTEAD BOULEVARD (TH 349/23) - STOP -
All traffic traveling south bound on Berkley Street shall come to a full stop.
WANTAGH
JACKSON AVENUE (TH 345/23) - STOP -
All traffic traveling south bound on Willow Street shall come to a full stop.
JACKSON AVENUE (TH 345/23) - STOP -
All traffic traveling north bound on Willow Street shall come to a full stop.
ALL PERSONS INTERESTED shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposal at the time and place aforesaid.
Dated: September 6, 2023
Hempstead, New York
BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD
DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR.
Supervisor
KATE MURRAY Town Clerk
141704
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that license number 1366240 for eating place beer has been applied for by K & K Los Latinos Corp. to sell beer at retail in a delicatessen under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at 24 E Park Ave. Long Beach, NY 11561 for on premises consumption.
141781
PUBLIC & LEGAL NOTICES
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE
SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF NASSAU
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR C-BASS MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES
2005-CB8 Plaintiff, Against DAVID DEFILIPPO, et al., Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 02/04/2020, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, on the North Front Steps of the Nassau County Courthouse, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY. This Auction will be held rain or shine on 10/11/2023 at 3:30 pm, premises known as 414 East Pine Street, Long Beach, New York 11561, And Described As Follows:
ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Long Beach, County of Nassau and State of New York. Section 59 Block 150 Lot 11 & 12.
The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $756,247.90 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 6628/2008
If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the Foreclosure Auction.
Malachy P Lyons, Esq., Referee.
MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC, 10 MIDLAND AVENUE, SUITE 205, PORT CHESTER, NY 10573
Dated: 7/27/2023 File
Number: 18-302143
RS 141740
Cats and dogs leave shelters for forever or foster homes every day. —There are some pets continuously left behind wondering when it will be their turn to experience a family.
And these days, more and more pets are left behind due to a lack of foster homes.
“Fosters are everything,” said Johanna Baeyens, founder of the nonprofit shelter Lend-A-Paw. “I think every dog should go to a foster, just to know what it’s like in a home setting.”
Baeyens, who started Lend-A-Paw out of her garage in Lynbrook during the pandemic, said experiencing a foster home is critical for an animal’s wellbeing and their capacity to adjust to home life. However, fewer people are stepping up to foster — but the need for them is growing.
“I don’t have any fosters right now,” Baeyens said. “There’s literally not one person I can call to be like ‘hey, can you hold this dog for a bit?’”
Lend-A-Paw was able to move from Baeyens’ home to an Oceanside storefront in 2021. It’s perfect for their cat tenants. But dogs, which require more space, need to be placed with foster families. If there are none available, they need to be turned away — which can be the difference between life and death.
Lend A Paw rescues pups from euthanasia lists. The shelter has been able to stretch its means as much as possible — but they can’t stretch much more.
“If we don’t have fosters we can’t take in any animals,” Baeyens said. “We have four dogs in boarding right now, and that is way past the financial capacity that we have.”
Boarding means that the dogs are housed in a separate facility, while Lend A Paw continues to provide the animal’s food, supplies, and medical resources — on top of paying the facility for housing the animal. It’s simply unsustainable for the nonprofit funded entirely from donations.
“Boarding situations were kind of our last resort,” Baeyens said. “But now there’s just so many dogs that need foster homes that we don’t know what to do with them.”
On top of that, there are seven families who no longer want to be fosters and are trying to return their dogs. Baeyens and the volunteers at Lend A Paw are struggling to find a place for them.
“At the moment we haven’t resorted to moving into other shelters, but the boarding facility, they’re maxed out,” Baeyens said. “We legitimately have no place for these dogs to go.”
Fostering gives dogs a chance to adjust to home life, while letting both the foster and Lend A Paw learn more about the dog’s personality. When a dog is in a home environment, a foster may learn that the dog is good with young kids, or should be in a one-dog household, or pre-
fers the company of cats. Lend A Paw wants to learn as much as they can about each dog so they can be placed with the best possible forever home match, rather than be set up for failure.
“They are analyzing and watching and learning from the dogs,” Baeyens said of fosters. “So we know how to better place them.”
For Jill and Joanna Palumbo, a mother and daughter who have been volunteering at Lend A Paw for a year and a half, fostering changed their lives.
“She was the runt of the litter,” said Joanna, 16, of their cat Juliette. “It was really a one-in-a-lifetime experience because she wasn’t doing well. We had to hand feed her. She almost didn’t make it.
“It was definitely a great experience. It just felt good that we saved her.”
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Aside from the fabulous location, this updated Rockville Centre home has everything you need! You will be delighted by the grand Foyer, large eat in kitchen, great room, formal dining room and living room with a wood burning fireplace. The fully finished basement with a separate entrance includes a wet-bar and room for a large walk-in wine cellar. There are beautiful hardwood floors throughout. You will enjoy several walk-in closets. One of many surprises the home has to offer is a walk up attic that is fully finished and adorned with skylights. You will definitely have plenty of room to work and play from home. As a matter of fact, there are too many extras to list and take photos of, so please come see this house today!
Q. We were told we could make our own plans for the deck we wanted to build this summer, and we thought we followed all the instructions. We filed the plans using the internet, and even though we’re not too savvy with computers, we finally figured it out. Then we got a response that we’re required to have plans for the whole house, showing any changes with an architect’s or engineer’s seal. How did this get to be so complicated, and is this typical? One has nothing to do with the other, and now the summer is almost gone, with no deck even started. We should have done what our neighbors did and just built it. What can you tell us, and is there a way around this now?
A. Your scenario isn’t unusual; it’s just that people generally try to avoid either doing the more complete thing or the right thing. Keeping things simple isn’t always the best policy if it means just putting off the inevitable. I have a long list of real estate transactions where amenities such as fences, sheds, decks or pools, or home improvements, were never filed, because sellers or buyers were advised by the people handling their process to keep things simple and just close.
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One of the first things I have to do when I meet a prospective client is to ask for their survey and closing documents to see if a search included all the items on the site. Often there are items such as those just mentioned that were completely ignored. Nobody is the wiser until the current owner wants to make a legally permitted change and discovers they have a lot more to do than just the one thing they had hoped to get approved. That is where you are.
Apparently, your jurisdiction knows about or suspects that there is more to your property and wants a complete record. Unless someone researches the records that are on file at your local building department to see if they match the conditions of your entire property, you won’t know what the officials are questioning. Many people will not hire a professional who tells the truth about checking all records, thinking that this is all so unnecessary, with comments like, “Well this was already like this when we bought the house.” Just because it was “like this” doesn’t mean it’s legal or on record, and your building department wants to make sure that your property, inside and out, matches plans.
It pays to do this before you close, but in a brisk seller’s market, many people are afraid of losing the deal and just buy. That may be what happened to you. You are now the responsible party, and to even get the deck, you will have to hire a professional and have plans prepared after comparing the building department’s records with what currently exists. I don’t know a simpler way. Good luck!
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As a native New Yorker, born and raised on Long Island, I am extraordinarily proud of this place we call home. From our beaches, to our downtown, corridors to our tight-knit hometowns, the Empire State is filled with wonderful communities in which to live, work and raise a family.
Sadly, in recent times, far too many New Yorkers have been forced to flee the place they’ve spent most of their lives, driven out by high taxes, an everincreasing cost of living exacerbated by inflation, and deteriorating public safety. Instead of working to curb this mass migration of New Yorkers to greener pastures — fueled in large part by a lack of affordability — Gov. Kathy Hochul is attempting to levy an additional tax on already overtaxed New Yorkers in the form of congestion pricing. These new fees would be flat out wrong, and I’m working hard in Congress to stop them.
Under the governor’s ill-fated congestion pricing plan — formally termed the
Central Business District Tolling Program — commuters would pay upward of $23 during peak hours to drive south of 60th Street in Manhattan. What’s more, this would be in addition to the already high-priced tolls commuters must pay for the bridges and tunnels leading into Manhattan. While more and more New Yorkers feel the financial squeeze of inflation and an uncertain economy, Hochul has determined that this is the best time to move forward with her misguided congestion fees — which, if paid daily by an average commuter who drives into Manhattan for work on typical weekdays, could amount to more than $5,000 a year. What middle class family can afford that?
While congestion pricing has not yet been implemented, Hochul and her progressive allies in Albany are already championing this new pseudo-tax as a win for everyday New Yorkers as well as the faltering Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Indeed, funds from the congestion-pricing program are slated to fill the coffers of the struggling MTA and bankroll the agency’s bloated budget by encouraging more commuters to ride the rails into Lower Manhattan instead of driving. While increasing ridership on public transportation is a noble cause, doing so by threatening New Yorkers with financial hardship for driving is not the path forward.
Not only are commuters now staring down the barrel of thousands of dollars in new fees if they drive into Manhattan, but they are also facing increased costs for public transportation after the latest round of MTA fare hikes. Indeed, with MTA bus and subway fares now jumping to $2.90 a ride — and the roughly 4.3 percent Long Island Rail Road fare uptick — commuters are being forced to bear the brunt of the MTA’s long history of mismanagement — a seemingly never-ending saga that culminated with reports released earlier this year projecting a nearly $2.5 billion budget gap by 2025 for the agency.
In addition to increased costs, far too many New Yorkers have been exposed to a recent rash of violent crime while utilizing MTA services. Forcing those crimeweary commuters to pay more money for less safe commuting conditions is patently unfair.
All of this is to say that if Hochul were serious about helping local commuters, she wouldn’t push an unpopular and unneeded congestion-pricing plan on cash-strapped New Yorkers who are also having to contend with inflation, deteriorating safety on public transportation, and rising fares. What’s more, unless the MTA makes serious operational changes in the way it manages its finances, how soon will we have to contend with
increased congestion pricing fees in order to plug even greater holes in the agency’s budget?
I am opposed to the governor’s congestion pricing plan as it currently stands, and have worked in a bipartisan fashion to fight this new tax. In Congress, I have introduced H R 609, which calls for an outright rejection of the plan, and I’m proud to say that colleagues in both parties from across the tri-state area have cosponsored this federal push to quash this money grab by the state government.
While my fellow members of Congress and I work at the federal level to combat this new tax, I urge all of my Nassau County neighbors to contact Gov Hochul’s office — and their local state legislators — to voice their opposition to the congestion pricing scheme, and tell Hochul that we can’t afford another tax hike from Albany.
The governor and her progressive pals in the state legislature need to get serious about reeling in these out-of-control taxes and fees, before we lose even more New Yorkers to other corners of the country that respect their pocketbooks — and their commutes more than the Empire State does under this administration in Albany.
Really, the world outside is conspiring to corrupt us. The mindless chatter is deafening, the distractions are pervasive and the temptation to indulge ourselves on every level is highly seductive.
Yesterday I was standing on the train platform in Jamaica, and watched a young woman, earplugs inserted, texting while her child toddled over the yellow line, way too close to the tracks. Only those of us not on our phones noticed and yelled a warning. The embarrassed mother started to scream at the little boy, who really had done nothing wrong.
People are moving around, believing they can walk and talk or walk and listen to music or drive a car and text or sit down to dinner with the family and also answer emails.
No news flash here. This isn’t a new cultural phenomenon, but it is becoming obscene. Walking through city streets yesterday, people were mentally AWOL as they sometimes moved along and sometimes just stopped and blocked the sidewalk while they texted a message. Pedestrians were oblivious to their immediate
surroundings, inattentive to people standing within earshot.
On the LIRR, a woman was offering telephone therapy in a ridiculously loud voice to her daughter, who apparently was having issues of a personal nature with a boyfriend. Personal? Everyone in the train car had to listen to her advice on birth control.
Gradually, this public sharing of the personal and private has become acceptable behavior for many. Facebook and Snapchat and Instagram users publish details of their lives that might have been kept within the family before the internet. Are we losing any sense of discretion?
Who among us is able to carve out islands of silence or solitude in the midst of this public havoc?
The food we eat was once a private part of our lives. Now everyone takes pictures of their lamb chops and posts recipes, some for the most excessively fattening foods imaginable. And when we put down the phone or the computer, we turn on the TV and watch “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” and watch really unhealthy-looking people gorging on fried food and barbecued everything.
If you turn to the news for a reasonable roundup of the day, you’re assaulted by the repetitive “breaking news” hyste-
ria that has replaced intelligent coverage. If you watch the news while you flip back and forth to the food channel, it’s a perfect storm of excess and grease.
Since President Trump was elected, news porn has subsumed what used to be reasonable coverage of events. It’s a chicken-andegg kind of thing. Did the chaotic nature of the administration make the news crazy, or is the crazy coverage affecting the White House?
We find excess in every arena. Once upon a time, when you wanted to go shopping, you went. It was a considered, proactive choice involving walking or driving to a store, selecting merchandise, checking out and coming home. I was never a motivated or skilled shopper, so online shopping serves me well. Still, what disturb me are the excessiveness and intrusiveness of it all.
I buy a pair of shoes online, the next time I try to do some research, I’m harassed and enticed and tempted by visual streamers on the screen, offering me more shoes and different shoes and cheaper shoes and even used shoes. Enough!
Perhaps I’m reacting to my own susceptibility to the dazzling online displays of goodies, from super-rich chocolates to rhinestone earrings that look like baby
Randi is on a brief leave. This column was originally published Sept. 7-13, 2017.
chandeliers. It’s all visual, but it feels noisy to me.
I use the word porn for these excesses in news, food and shopping because porn doesn’t necessarily suggest sexual material. In these cases, it suggests lurid and excessive indulgence.
This isn’t an all-or-nothing problem. By all means, we need to enjoy our food and follow the news and buy what we need to buy. The tricky part is keeping it all reasonable and appropriate and private. Dare I use the word “moderation”? It sounds so boring. Still …
To save our sanity, each of us, in our own lives and own spaces, must find time to think. That’s it, just think, with no external input. Sit in a park or in the house or take a walk and leave the devices behind. You’ll see and hear things you haven’t seen in a long time, such as the flash of a bird’s wing in the distance or the humming of late-summer insects.
Since Hurricane Harvey, there’s much talk about sheltering in place. The media intrusion into our lives is another kind of storm, and we need new skills to survive. We must give the gift of quiet observation to the next generation, or they will never learn how to take shelter in their own space.
RAnDi KREiss
in these cases, ‘porn’ suggests something different: lurid and excessive indulgence.U.S. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito represents New York’s 4th Congressional District. Anthony D’Esposito
they called them the most dangerous stretches of road on Long island. No crosswalks. Speeding cars. Pedestrians literally running for their lives simply to get from one side of the street to the other.
A survey conducted last year by Vision Long island — a group of community leaders from Nassau and Suffolk counties committed to advancing more livable, economically sustainable and environmentally responsible growth — found these trouble spots in six neighborhoods, including Baldwin and Hempstead village. The study came on the heels of more than 6,000 accidents reported in the Town of Hempstead involving pedestrians.
“There’s a need in the area,” Vision Long island executive director Eric Alexander said. “And we can do better.”
As schools open their doors for the fall once again, all of us must do better — at least do our part to ensure that our young folk can safely make it to their campuses. That means keeping an eye out for kids crossing streets, walking along roads where there might not be sidewalks, or simply standing and waiting for a bus.
Every morning — and every afternoon — hundreds of bus drivers are tasked with getting our children to and from school. But that task isn’t easy. Especially with impatient car drivers who might try to speed around slowing or stopped buses.
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But even the most well-meaning car drivers can be a headache for school buses. The yellow behemoths have a number of blind spots, take longer to stop, and require far more room to maneuver, according to the state transportation department
Because of that, it’s important to keep your distance from buses, especially when they stop. When you’re behind them, stay at least 20 feet back.
And always be alert. Not just to kids getting on and off the bus, but also anyone waiting at a bus stop or running to catch a bus. They might not be paying attention to what’s around them, and could dart into traffic — right in front of your vehicle.
And what about when you see flashing red lights and a stop sign extended from the side of the bus? Are there any times you don’t have to stop? The answer is simple: no.
State law requires you to stop for a school bus with flashing red lights and the extended stop sign whether you’re on a two-lane road, a multi-lane road with a paved median, or a divided highway. That’s right — even a barrier in the middle of a street separating you from a school bus in traffic going in the opposite direction isn’t enough to excuse you from stopping for the bus. You still have to stop.
DoT says many of the accidents
The status quo is failing New Yorkers and migrants alike. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recent extension of her executive order declaring a state of emergency for asylum seekers fails to provide a long-term plan, and only exacerbates this inhumane disaster.
Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams have failed to lead on this dire humanitarian crisis, which was created by President Biden’s failed immigration policies.
While the federal government needs to step up to address the root of this crisis, the influx of migrants has highlighted the inadequacies of the state and the nation.
STATE SEN. PATriCiA CANzoNEri-FiTzPATriCK
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Many may have thought Florida Gov. ron DeSantis’s “Let me outdo Trump” strategy was just an easy way to get votes. They may have been partially right. republican candidate Vivek ramaswamy’s doubling down — going further right than both Donald Trump and DeSantis — on his “i’m best to lead that ‘America First’ agenda” is gaining considerable momentum. His rocket-like ascension among the remaining republican
involving buses occur when car drivers try to pass stopped buses, or when they don’t stop because of poor visibility in rain, snow or fog. Some are caused by bus drivers waving cars through, unaware that a child is crossing the street. What does that mean to you? if a bus driver waves you through, don’t move forward until you’ve checked for yourself the road in front of you is clear.
of more than 100 fatal accidents reported in a recent year by the state education department, nearly 70 percent of those killed were children in kindergarten, first, second or third grade. That’s despite the fact that those kids account for less than 35 percent of the school population.
No one should ever feel unsafe going to school — whether they’re walking or taking a bus. Ensuring children’s safety is all the incentive any of us should need. But just in case it’s not, the penalties for not stopping for school buses are fines of up to $400 and potentially 30 days in jail for the first offense, increasing to $1,000 and six months in jail for repeat offenses. With school back in session, our children, the future of our neighborhoods — our world — need to get to class to learn everything they can. Stay alert. Stop on red.
Do your part to make sure they get there safely.
presidential candidates, as a first-time politician, reveals an unquenchable thirst for this ideology among a certain group of voters in America.
i t could also explain why six of the republican contenders were tripping over themselves in the first debate to say they’d support Trump if he were to win the republican primary.
What’s worrisome, however, is that despite Trump’s current legal woes, an August Marist College poll showed him in a statistical tie with President Biden in the 2024 general election.
The question is, given Biden’s progress on the economy —unemployment at a low of 3.5 percent, nationwide infrastructure investments, American manu-
apoll conducted by nextLI/ Newsday discovered a not-sopuzzling contradiction. A majority of Long Island residents want more local housing options, probably because their own children, just starting families, can’t afford to buy homes in the communities in which they grew up and their parents live. On the other hand, a majority also oppose “dense housing options” like those proposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Opposition to “dense housing options,” a euphemism for low-cost apartments near transportation hubs, comes from both Republicans and Democrats, because support for such developments could be the kiss of death in local elections. There is deepseated fear in the metropolitan area suburbs that less-expensive housing will bring ethnic and racial minorities into previously predominantly white communities.
So far, low-cost housing options on Long Island are targeted for communi-
ties that are already primarily Black and Latino. A four-story building with 42 units and a 228-unit development are going up in Hempstead, an 81-unit project is planned for Wyandanch, and a 55-unit building is being built in a blighted area of East Patchogue. Hempstead is 46 percent Black and 45 percent Latino. Wyandanch is 60 percent Black and 18 percent Latino. Patchogue is majority white, but the area where the housing will be built is increasingly Latino.
The State Legislature, which is controlled by Democrats, adjourned for the year in June without passing legislation to address the state’s chronic housing shortage, as lawmakers failed to even introduce any housing legislation. Democratic legislators wanted to boost the housing supply by offering developers tax credits that are supposed to promote construction of affordable housing and turn unused office space into apartments. The Democrats also wanted to include protection against evictions and spiking rents.
Hochul, a Democrat, was unhappy about pairing new construction with
facturing has ticked up — is the Democratic political strategy working?
DERICKSON LAWRENCE BronxTo the Editor:
Citizens have a right to know who they’re dealing with, whether it be in government or private enterprise. But that’s not the case when it comes to limited liability companies, or LLCs.
LLCs can own property, apply for grants, operate as landlords, and donate to political campaigns. But discovering who’s behind the curtain isn’t easy. Cruise through your local property tax rolls, or the state’s campaign finance disclosure database, and you’ll see plenty of LLCs, but you won’t see plenty of names.
Anonymous shell companies have been a popular vehicle for money laundering, tax evasion, organized crime, terrorism, and other forms of corruption for decades. Yet establishing an LLC requires less personal information than getting a library card.
That’s why it’s important for Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign the Limited Liability Companies Transparency Act, passed by both the Assembly and State Senate, which would require these business organizations to publicly identify their owners to the state.
A wide variety of businesses — from pizza shops to mall developers and property buyers — use LLCs as an organizing business structure. The approach, sanctioned by state law, provides the owners some limits on liabilities the companies could face.
As a practical matter, LLCs also allow the people who actually own the companies to remain anonymous. Under current reporting requirements, LLCs
rent controls. She proposed a broader housing plan that would add over 800,000 units of new housing by requiring that suburban communities meet construction mandates, including expanding their housing stock by 3 percent every three years and building 50 homes per acre within a half-mile of Long Island Rail Road stations.
Democratic legislators were leery of Hochul’s plan because last fall, Republican candidates on Long Island won three Assembly seats and three Senate seats previously held by Democrats.
While Democrats shied away from Hochul’s proposal to mandate affordable housing in the suburbs, Republicans were in virulent opposition, accusing her of imperial ambitions, and of trying to transform Long Island communities in a plan to alleviate New York City’s housing crisis. Hempstead Town Supervisor Donald Clavin, a Republican, denounced the Hochul plan as “illconceived.” State Sen. Steven Rhoads, a Republican from Massapequa, called the governor’s proposal “a reckless and irresponsible attempt to defy both local government’s right to control local zon-
need only supply a company name, county of operation, and an address where legal documents should be sent.
Sometimes that address is a post office box. Sometimes it’s an attorney’s office or a registered agent. For anyone interested in knowing more, the information is often frustratingly nondescript — and consequently useless.
But we all have a well-established interest in this information, and the State Legislature should be commended for recognizing this by including solid publicdisclosure requirements.
The lack of transparency for campaign donations is just one of the reasons the LLC Transparency Act has the support of good-government groups such as Common Cause and the League of Women Voters. While a 2019 law change required LLCs making political donations to disclose their owners, many are ignoring the requirement, the groups say.
The Business Council of New York State opposes the law, saying it will violate the privacy of law-abiding businesses — including thousands of small businesses organized as LLCs — and put their security at risk. There are some provisions in the legislation for public disclosure to be waived when “a significant privacy interest exists.” The law’s efficacy will be determined in part by how waiver requests are handled.
Given the benefits that state law confers on LLCs, it’s not too much to ask that they at least let us know who they are. This is a good step toward much-needed transparency.
JUDY PATRICK
ing and the right of each and every Long Islander to preserve their safety and suburban quality of life.”
Massapequa is 94 percent white and less than 1 percent Black. Over the past 10 years, less new housing has been built in metropolitan New York’s suburban communities than in most major metropolitan areas in the United States.
Racism remains such a potent political force in New York suburbs that the Democratic leaders in the State Legislature, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, both African-American, were unwilling to support affordable housing mandates, fearing that white opposition would cost Democrats majority control of both houses. Look for opposition to “dense housing options” to join attacks on critical race theory as Republican rally points in the 2024 election cycle to stir up white voting support.
Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and an assistant editor of Teaching Social Studies, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies.
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there’s opposition in both parties, because support can be deadly in local elections.Judy Patrick is vice president of editorial development of the New York Press Association, a statewide media advocacy group whose members include the Herald Community Newspapers.