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Superblock project is in the works stagnation in building on the Superblock site had finally come to an end. Few people in Long Beach “This is a beautiful day for a remember the last time a crowd beautiful project that is long gathered outside the six-acre overdue,” D’Amato said from a vacant lot just a few feet from the makeshift stage on one side of boardwalk, known to locals as the fenced-off Superblock, where the Superblock. construction crews But about 150 peohave already begun ple, including city, work. D’Amato had county and state offilong advocated for cials and business the project. leaders, gathered at The groundthe Superblock site breaking capped Tuesday afternoon years of stagnation, for a historic event: lawsuits, negotiathe groundbreaking tions and meetings for what developer among the developEngel Burman, of er, Long Beach offiGarden City, says cials and skeptical— will, in 36 months, and sometimes hosbe two nine-story alfoNSE tile — residents who condo buildings and D’aMaTo questioned the tax a 10-story apartment Former U.S. senator breaks that Engel building on the lots Bur man received, between Riverside and the impact that and Long Beach boulevards. a project of such size would have More than a dozen officials, on the city’s sewer systems, current and former, including roads and school district. 84-year-old former U.S. Sen. Two major roadblocks were Alfonse D’Amato, symbolically overcome in the past year. The dug their shovels into a long first was the question, raised last wooden box and cast the dirt a August, of whether the Nassau few inches away, to cheers from County Industrial Development the crowd. Agency would approve a $23 milThe brief ceremony was a lion, 25-year tax abatement. The photo op to show that 40 years of Continued on page 10

By JaMES BERNSTEiN jbernstein@liherald.com

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THE laST TiME Irish Day was held in Long Beach — in the pre-pandemic days of 2019 — thousands turned out for the annual parade and street fair.

Erin go bragh in L.B. this year, but with some wee changes By JiM BERNSTEiN jbernstein@liherald.com

Irish Day is one of Long Beach’s largest events, drawing thousands to the West End, where the green flows for hours — vendors sell food and other items, and restaurants and bars do a booming business. The coronavirus pandemic shut down the event last year. This year, however, the Saint Brendan the Navigator Irish

Heritage Day — Irish Day for short — is scheduled for Oct. 2. But with modifications. City officials and representatives of the Ancient Order of Hibernians Division 17, which organizes the event, have been in talks since July to work out ways to hold the parade and street festival while still adhering to state Covid-19 regulations. Both sides raised the issues at a City Council meeting on Sept.

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9, but said that no agreement had been reached. The AOH said it had to be permitted to hold the fair, because proceeds from it, such as $150 to $200 fees charged to vendors, paid for the parade, including the participating bands. The city said that Covid-19 infections were “trending in the wrong direction,” and the street fair was an issue. Late Friday afternoon, the city and the AOH issued a Continued on page 4

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tHe Mcavoy race began on the boardwalk as the sun broke through early morning clouds. There were over 400 runners in the 5k race.

Over 400 take part in L.B. Labor Day race Over 400 runners participated in the 25th Annual Robert C. McAvoy 5-mile Labor Day race, held on under beautiful, sunny skies. The race was in remembrance of an extraordinary Long Beach community member, Robert C. McAvoy. The McAvoy family assisted the Long Beach Recreation Department staff with the raffle and awards ceremony. The 5-mile course was flat and fast, with the start and finish on the boardwalk at Laurelton Boulevard.

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Brandon aBasolo of Long Beach, was the overall male winner, with a time of 26:53. Peter Hawkins, 50, of Malverne, took first place in the wheelchair category with a time of 22:47. stefanie Braun, 23, of Dix Hills, was the female overall winner with a time of 31:02. Courtesy Ryan Mack

etan Blatt and Basil Donado race down the boardwalk at Rockaway Beach on their way to the World Trade Center, after a start at Skudin Swim in Long Beach. Donado quit at the Manhattan Bridge. Blatt ran the 34.3miles to the trade center.

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No amusement rides to be allowed at festival

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ple of Long Beach,” he said. Earlier in the week, Traynor said the statement, saying they had reached an parade could not go forward without the agreement “on a general framework” that would allow the festival to continue street fair. He said there are between 50 to 75 ven“in a manner that takes into account dors, on average, each year, and food venconcerns surrounding Covid-19.” dors are charged $200, and vendors sellThe statement did not provide additional details, but at Thursday night’s ing trinkets or other items, $150. Traynor council meeting, Joe Brand, the city’s said Irish Day attracts several thousand commissioner of parks and recreation, people throughout the day, and those peosaid municipal parking lots in the West ple frequent the bars and restaurants. Irish Day also supports local charities, End would be used for some of the venincluding Waterfront Wardors so they would be crowdriors, the Little League and ed “back to back.” the Veterans of Foreign Additionally, Brand said, Wars, and it provides some there would be no amusescholarships, Traynor said. ment rides, and bars and resAOH officials had said in taurants would “close at a recent days that the city certain hour.” He did not allowed other events to take specify the hour, but the place despite Covid-19. City establishments nor mally officials said all events must close at 2 a.m. comply with coronavirus The city and the AOH, in DAN TRAYNOR regulations. their announcement late Fri- Chairman, The Town of Oyster Bay day after noon, said the recently canceled its Oysterparade would begin at 11 Irish Day parade fest, and New York City cana.m. celed the West Indian Day “Each party commends the other’s efforts to engage in pragmatic and pro- Parade, city officials noted. The agreement came after a summer ductive discussions that resulted in the continuation of this much beloved tradi- of sometimes heated negotiations, tion. More details will be announced as according to both sides. Talks had begun they become available,” the statement in early July, with both sides agreeing that Irish Day must take place, but the said. Dan Traynor, the AOH’s parade chair- street festival was a sticking point. The city had been tracking Covid-19 man, said Friday night, “The city has approved” the event. He said the AOH infections rates, which have been rising was “happy to have cooperated with the in recent months. A large number of city city,” and vendors would be spaced out, employees, as much as 50 percent, are but he was unsure whether municipal required to staff Irish Day. The city seeks lots would be used. Traynor said there to make sure its workers are protected would be no single grand marshal this from infection, which may spread at a year. “The grand marshal will be the peo- crowded event. CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

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An estimAted 2,000 people turned out for the Town of Hempstead’s 9/11 ceremony, held Saturday in Lido Beach.

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Hempstead Town salutes 9/11 heroes By JAmes Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com

Sept. 11, 2021, dawned as a stunningly beautiful late summer morning, the sky an azure blue and the sunshine a bright yellow — just as it was on the same day 20 years ago. At the Hempstead Town Park at Lido Beach, there was a standing-room only crowd that gathered before a makeshift stage on the sand and also filled a wooden walkway leading from the parking lot. The crowd, estimated by officials at about 2,000, had come to observe a milestone anniversary — the 20th year since two commercial jetliners were hijacked by terrorists, who used them as missiles to slam into each of the mAriAnee twin towers of the World Trade tABorsky Center, killing almost 3,000 peoMerrick ple. The mood on the beach was somber. “It was the day America lost its innocence,” said Marianee Taborsky, of Merrick, who came with her husband, Kevin. They embraced before taking seats set up on the beach. She had heard reports of the attack that morning and turned on her TV. “I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “This doesn’t happen to us. This was America.” Speakers, including New York state’s new lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin, a former state senator from Harlem, spoke not only about the terror of that day, but also of the sacrifice of 9/ll responders. Others, including New York City police officers and Long Island legislators, talked of losing fathers, nephews and other relatives. “I plan on being here every year that I am lieutenant governor,” Benjamin said. His predecessor, Kathy Hochul, now governor, had spoken at the Lido Beach ceremony last year. Some of the loudest applause of the day came for New York Police Department Detective Vincent DeMarino, whose father, also Vincent DeMarino, of Valley Stream, a deputy chief in the city police department, died of can-

t was the day America lost its innocence.

memBers of the Rockville Centre Fire Department served as the color guard at the Town of Hempstead’s 9/11 ceremony on Saturday to mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa. cer after working at the ruins of the World Trade Center. Detective DeMarino was 9 on Sept. 11, 2001. He sat in class while other students were pulled out by their parents after the attacks. When he got home, he said, his mother explained to him that two planes had hit the trade center. She told him his father was “fine.” “But she didn’t know that until he came home after 2 in the morning,” on Sept. 12, he said. He said he father had been “the Energizer bunny, always busy” and chatty. “But after that day, he just sat down,” DeMarino said. In 2018, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor “directly linked to his work at ground zero,” he said. His father died 13 months later. “He took his work at ground zero head on,” DeMarino said. “This was my dad. Share your story too.” The

crowd rose to its feet. Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin noted that last year the observance was held in the Lido Beach parking lot, and the crowd was limited because of the coronavirus pandemic. This year, he said, the event could safely be held on the beach. The 9/11 terrorist attacks “took a toll on the country,” Clavin said, but they also brought “unity and bravery.” Many of the first-responders sat quietly. Among them was Pat Antonacci, of Levittown, an NYPD detective who said he worked at ground zero for a few months. “It was horrific,” he said. His wife, Maryann, said, “It took a toll on him. He Continued on neXt page

Hempstead Town holds 9/11 ceremony didn’t talk about it. He didn’t even smile for months.” Hempstead Town Councilman Bruce Blakeman spoke of losing his nephew, Sgt. Tommy Jergens, a New York state court officer from Valley Stream. He died when the towers collapsed. “Some people dread this day,” Blakeman said. “We know we are going to have to relive the pain and the horror of that day.” He said his nephew joined the Boy Scouts, the U.S. Army and the state court system because “the kid always liked

amoNg tHe atteNdees was Todd Gleason, 61, of Island Park, a crane operator who removed the last piece of World Trade Center steel from ground zero.

to wear uniforms.” “We never got to say goodbye,” Blakeman said. Only his shield was found. At the end of the ceremony, a number of people tossed white carnations into the choppy surf of the Atlantic Ocean. One of them was Cara Donaldson, of Plainview, a psychologist. “Throwing flowers means casting my prayers to Mother Nature and God,” she said. The pain of 9/11, she said, “never ends, even 20 years later.”

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New York Police Department Detective Vincent DeMarino spoke of his father, also Vincent, of Valley Stream, who died in December 2019 of a brain tumor directly linked by his doctors to his work as a first responder at ground zero in the months after the 9/11 attacks. HemPstead towN suPervisor Don Clavin led the ceremony.

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Ongoing Library Board Meeting The Long Beach Public Library Board of Trustees typically meets on the third Monday of every month. Check the website for specific dates and times, www.longbeachlibrary.org.

Long Beach Soup Kitchen The Long Beach Soup Kitchen, 140 West Pine Street, is open 6 days a week 11:15 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. They offer Hot and Cold Meals TO GO. They offer a full pantry with canned goods and fresh produce. Mondays and Thursdays. All are welcome.

Meet The City Manager City Manager Donna M. Gayden will be holding “Meet The City Manager” virtual chat sessions. These meetings are an opportunity for residents to engage in a one-to-one dialogue with the City Manager; ask questions, share concerns, or express ideas on how to enhance the quality of life in our community. The virtual meetings will take place on Tuesdays from 2-4 p.m. Appointments are needed and are given on a first-come, first-served basis. Please call the City Manger’s Office to make an appointment at (516) 431-7202 or email citymanager@longbeachny.gov. Information on how to meet will be provided after the appointment is confirmed.

Farmers’ Market The Kennedy Plaza Farmers’ Market will be held at Kennedy Plaza in front of Long Beach City Hall every Saturday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. For additional information, visit ligreenmarket.org

Arts in the Plaza Arts in the Plaza features handcrafted art by local artists including custom jewelry, unique handmade gifts, photography and fine art. The weekly art festival will be in Kennedy Plaza every Saturday from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. through Oct. 30. For more info visit artsintheplaza.comfacebook.com/

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The Irish Feis is back

Tuesday, Sept. 21 Theater Auditions The Long Beach Theatre Guild will hold auditions for Musical Road Trip (songs from the 1960’s to today). Adults, teens and children ages 7 years old and up. Tuesday at 7 p.m. Lindell School Auditorium 650 Lindell Blvd. Long Beach. Call 516 432-2600 or visit www.lbthetheaterguild.org.

A young dancer demonstrated some Irish moves at the last Feis sponsored by the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The Feis is back this year, and omn Sunday, hundreds are expected to turn out for the festival that will feature food, music, dancing, at Nickerson Park Beach in Lido Beach. The Feis opens at 9 am.

Thursday, Sept. 23 Zoning Board Meets The City of Long Beach Zoning Board will meet at City Hall on the 6th floor at 7:00pm.

Friday, Sept. 24 Drawing Class

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Friday, Sept. 17

Surfrider International Coastal Cleanup Day

Sunday, Sept. 19

School Readiness

The Surfrider Foundation Central Long Island Chapter will host International Coastal Cleanup Day event at 3 cleanup sites along the south shore of Long Island including Long Beach. They will meet at 10:00am on Pacific Boulevard. All are welcome. Please RSVP to volunteer@centralli.surfider. org. There will be giveaways at all events and all ages are welcome.

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Long Beach Oyster Fest

Monday, Sept. 20

Preschool Readiness/ Family Fun - 18 months to 5 years. A fun and fastpaced school readiness program. Focus on fine and gross motor development, literacy and socialization. Will be held at ##t\TIME at the Long Beach Library.

Saturday, Sept. 18 International Coastal Cleanup Day The Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center in cooperation with the City of Long Beach will hold a family-friendly beach cleanup on International Coastal Cleanup Day, Saturday, September 18, 2021 on New York Avenue beach from 9:00am - 11:30am.

The Cabana is holding its annual Oyster Festival featuring two types of local oysters - Blue Point & Peconic Gold. It will offer live music as well. The event is from 12:30-3:30 pm. Tickets $50.

The Nassau County Ancient Order of Hibernians will be hosting their 49th Annual Feis and Irish Festival at Nickerson Beach. The day will feature irish Dancing, vendors, bagpipers and more. Catholic Mass at 11am followed by a cereemony honoring John O’Connell.

Defensive driving course Long Beach Public Library 1:00pm 2:00pm. Empire Safety Council is offering 2-day, 6-hour defensive driving course.

Join Miss Tanya as you draw and/or color in this hands-on free-form class. You can join in person or virtually. Those who register to join in person will be given their very our pencil case with colored pencils, a pencil, pencil sharpener and eraser to bring with them to future classes. Paper will be provided. Space is limited.

HAvIng An evenT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest. All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to jbernstein@liherald.com

Police urge motorists to drive carefully now that schools are open Arts in the Plaza is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Yom Kippur is Thursday, Sept. 16. The L.B. Arts Council, in collaboration with Arts In The Plaza, is looking for Performance Artists. The City is seeking photos of Long Beach to be featured on the official website.

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Developer: Superblock will be up in 36 months continued from front page meeting on the question, at the Allegria Hotel, was both virtual and in-person. Dozens of construction workers showed up to support the project. Residents continued to raise objections to the tax breaks. Late last August, the IDA approved the project. “I’m thrilled that we got to this point,” IDA Chairman Richard Kessel said at the time Then, last month, the Long Beach City Council approved a settlement to end a $105 million lawsuit against the city by a one-time potential Superblock developer, Manhattan-based iStar. That ended a decades-long stalemate between the two sides and gave Engel Burman a $2.5 million credit that iStar had already paid for building fees. Those actions paved the way for Tuesday’s ceremony. Nassau County Executive Lauran Curran, who has pushed for the project since she took office in 2018 and is running for re-election this year, told the crowd, “On this six acres, something is finally going to happen, but this doesn’t just happen. It works by coming up with a plan. We need housing in Nassau County. This provides that.” Condos are expected to sell in the $700,000 to $1 million range. Rentals are to go for $3,000 to $4,000 a month. There will also be 30 units of workforce housing with significantly reduced rents. There are multiple pluses for the city: Long Beach will net $32 million in revenue, after expenses, during the payment-in-lieu-of-taxes period. The city school district will collect in excess of $75 million during the PILOT period, and Nassau County will collect more than $13 million. The development will bring 238 rental apartments in a 10-story building called The Breeze, 200 condominium residences in two nine-story buildings called Isla Blu and about 6,500 square feet of retail space to the long-vacant

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More than a dozen Long Beach, Nassau County and New York state officials and business executives took part in a groundbreaking ceremony at the Superblock on Tuesday. site. Scott Burman, a principal of Engle Burman, said that the next 90 days would see the installation of 21,200 drilled concrete piles, poured concrete pile caps and building foundations as well as off-site water and sewer work. Kessel, who has chaired the Nassau IDA since 2018, said on Tuesday that Curran had told him that one of her priorities was the development of the Superblock.

“This is going to revitalize the City of Long Beach,” Kessel said. “This will put thousands of people back to work, and they will be union workers, which is how it should be.” Another speaker, City Council President John Bendo, said, “In 1990, I was single and not living in Long Beach. That’s how long this has been going on.”

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Girls Volleyball: Lynbrook at South Side ................4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer: Uniondale at Baldwin.......................4:30 p.m. Boys Soccer: Elmont at Calhoun...........................4:45 p.m. Boys Soccer: Hewlett at South Side......................4:45 p.m. Girls Volleyball: Carey at Long Beach ......................... 5 p.m. Football: Farmingdale at Oceanside .......................... 6 p.m. Football: Hicksville at Freeport ................................... 6 p.m.

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Girls Soccer: Mepham at South Side........................ 9 a.m. Girls Volleyball: Clarke at West Hempstead .............10 a.m. Girls Soccer: Seaford at V.S. South .........................10 a.m. Girls Soccer: Long Beach at Lynbrook ....................10 a.m. Football: Glen Cove at Baldwin ................................. 2 p.m. Football: Sewanhaka at Elmont...................................... 2 p.m. Football: Carey at Calhoun ............................................. 2 p.m. Football: MacArthur at V.S. Central ................................. 2 p.m. Football: South Side at V.S. South .................................. 2 p.m. Football: Wantagh at Bethpage....................................... 2 p.m. Football: V.S. North at Hewlett ........................................ 2 p.m. Football: West Hempstead at Seaford ............................ 2 p.m. Football: Malverne at Clarke ........................................... 2 p.m. Football: Carle Place at East Rockaway .......................... 2 p.m. Football: Westbury at East Meadow................................ 2 p.m. Boys Soccer: Farmingdale at Oceanside ....................... 5 p.m.

Long Beach coach Leo Palacio is looking for the Marines to pick up where they left off last spring when they peaked down the stretch and reached the second round of the Nassau Class A boys’ soccer playoffs. “We went undefeated in our conference but had some trouble in the crossover games,” Palacio said. “We were playing some nice ball going into the playoffs and beat Seaford in the first round. Garden City knocked us out 3-0, but they beat us 6-1 during the regular season so we really showed progress.” Now in Conference A-1 along with Great Neck South, Great Neck North, Jericho, MacArthur, Mepham and New Hyde Park, the Marines boast the largest senior class Palacio has ever coached. “They’re a few months older and more experienced,” he said. “The conference is very tough, but I told the kids I’ve still got high expectations.” Palacio said defense is the key to success and Long Beach plenty of proven commodities, including Honorable Mention All-County sweeper Anthony Camas. A senior who is calm under pressure, Camas anticipates well, moves the ball out of the zone and also handles free kicks. “We ask him to do a lot and we need him to stay healthy,” Palacio said. Other integral pieces of the defense also return. Senior Jaden Bloom, an outside back, will get any one-on-one marking assignment when the situation calls, Palacio noted. “Jaden is great one-on-one and also has speed and reads the game well,” the coach explained. Junior stopper Michael Contreras is a strong on-ball tackler and covers a lot of ground in the back, cleaning up any mistakes that arise. Senior Daniel Cipra’s left-footed crossing passes rank among the best of anyone on the team, Palacio said, and has excellent field awareness and the ability to contribute in the midfield. Between the pipes, junior goalkeeper Avie Mann enjoyed a strong ending to last season and earned All-Conference honors. “He’s vocal and confident,” Palacio said. “In the conference we’re in, you need a strong goalie to compete.” Having senior Liam Sagy on the field

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15 CaTalina GuTTilla, Jim Hughes, the Rev. Bret Stockdale, Janet Calderon, Irene Glynn and Jane MagnoD’Anna at St. Anthony’s Parish taking in donations for the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

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St. Vincent de Paul Walk and 5K upcoming By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com

The St. Vincent de Paul Society in Oceanside kicked off its fundraising efforts last weekend ahead of the 13th annual Friends of the Poor Walk and 5K at Bethpage Community Park on Sept. 25. The walk and 5K are the society’s main fundraisers each year, and funds go directly to the community as part of the society’s mission to help neighbors in need. “We are called to respond to our neighbors in need,” Friends of the Poor Walk Chairwoman Jane Magno-D’Anna said. “Together, we can make a difference in the quality of life for many.” The pandemic has decimated many families financially, forcing them to be frugal with the money they have. The St. Vincent de Paul Society is known by many for its clothing donation boxes, but it also helps community members in need with utility costs, rent, groceries, clothing and more. At the Oceanside chapter, a group of about 30 members vet requests and visit

people and then help them with their needs. Guttilla said the pandemic has been especially hard on seniors financially and socially. The society often pays seniors’ medical co-pays. Vice President Catalina Guttilla stressed the importance of the walk to the community and the St. Vincent de Paul’s mission. “We have to raise as much as possible because it’s the only fundraiser that we do,” she said. “Any contribution, even if it’s $5 or $2, we don’t care what it is.” After last year’s in-person walk was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, Guttilla and the rest of the team said they hope this year’s walk continues as planned so they can provide as much outreach as possible. The 2020 edition of the event went virtual, with themed gift baskets sold to raise funds for families in need. The society also sold $4,000 in raffle tickets to help provide more money to donate. Janet Calderon, president of the St. Anthony’s Conference, said she is looking to replicate last year’s efforts by Pat Fox in the same role.

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y wife called soon after 9 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, her voice measured but tense. I was halfawake, preparing myself for the day, while our then 1½-year-old daughter slept in the next room of our Long Beach apartment. “Turn on the TV,” Katerina said. There were the twin towers ablaze in fireballs, black smoke pouring from the structures. Like so many of us, I could only stare, mouth agape, in stunned disbelief. My wife was at SCoTT Lawrence Middle School, where she BRINToN teaches to this day. The teachers didn’t have a TV to know precisely what was happening, so she called me to find out. She was sitting with a colleague whose husband worked at the World Trade Center. I stuttered as I relayed what I was seeing. I can’t recall which station I was watching, but I remember the frantic, frightened voice of a telecaster in a helicopter that whirred from a distance above the twin towers. Then, suddenly, the unexpected happened at 9:59 a.m.: The south tower col-

lapsed. The image of its shiny metal exterior cascading down, and then a massive gray ash plume spiraling back up hundreds of feet into the air, was seared into my mind. It haunts my thoughts to this day. I gasped. Then I had to explain to my wife what had just happened, and she had to tell her colleague, who was overcome by fear and sorrow. As I write this 20 years later, a chill radiates up my spine into my brain. At 10:28 a.m., the north tower fell. We, as a nation, had just witnessed the mass murder of 2,606 people in the twin towers live on TV. I’ve been covering the aftermath of the attacks since that day. Last Saturday I photographed the Town of Hempstead’s moving 9/11 ceremony, held, as it always is, at Lido Beach Park, where people gathered by the Atlantic Ocean on the day of the attacks to catch a glimpse of the smoke plumes from the towers. NYPD Detective Vincent DeMarino, whose father, also Vincent, of Valley Stream, an NYPD officer who died in 2019 of brain cancer because of his time spent at ground zero, encouraged attendees to tell their stories of that terrible day. In doing so, we keep the collective memory of the attacks alive so we “never forget.”

And so, I tell my story here. After collecting myself, I readied my daughter and headed to my wife. As I drove on West Park Avenue through Long Beach on the way to Lawrence, I spotted the smoke plumes through a break in the houses, just as I was entering the city’s West End. The plumes were like giant ribbons stretching to the heavens. “My God!” I said to myself, realizing that nothing would ever be the same. My wife was released from her duties after the children were sent home, and we met up on a side street in Lawrence. I could see the fear and horror in her eyes. We realized we had no cell service, but I told her that everything would be OK. I wondered whether that was true. My wife drove our daughter back to our apartment, and I went to work just down the street at the Heralds’ office at the time, in Lawrence. From there I took dictation from reporters who had been dispatched to train stations along the Babylon and Far Rockaway branches of the Long Island Rail Road. They were interviewing survivors who had hurried out of Manhattan, white ash and sweat coating their dark business suits. They poured out of the trains like frightened war victims. I worked until 3 a.m. the next day to

’ve been covering the aftermath of the attacks since that awful September day.

produce a paper. I remember stepping out of the office onto the empty sidewalk on Central Avenue around midnight and staring into the black sky. I heard F-16 fighter jets streaking overhead. They flew low, but I couldn’t see them. I felt drained and hollow. I was unprepared for the sense of sorrow that I — and the nation — would feel in the coming years. I reported on 13 funerals and memorial services in the months after Sept. 11, training my camera’s zoom lens on the grieving family members and friends of the victims. I hated shooting photos of those in such deep mourning. Now, though, my sense is that those pictures are an important part of history. They are documents that tell us about the price of terrorism. They show us, in no uncertain terms, why we must, as a nation, work toward world peace. I have reported on those annual ceremonies ever since. At last Saturday’s, I could hear the anger and sorrow of the family members and friends of 9/11 victims as they spoke. There is no peace that can come from such an attack, only acceptance. Never, ever forget. Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@ liherald.com.

Season of fire and flood slips into September

t has been a season of extremes, but after the floods and the fires and the winds and the Covid surges and the ICUs getting slammed and the little ones getting sick, and the heat waves searing the country, north, south, east and west, one drumbeat persists: Get the vaccine. Wear a mask. Take a booster. It’s easy and necessary. I can’t offer wiser words than these. If everyone who could have gotten the Covid-19 vaccine had done so, thousands of lives would have been saved. FamiRANDI lies would have KREISS avoided devastating illness and loss and broken businesses. But there being no percentage in looking back, there is still opportunity for people who have been reluctant to step up now and make themselves and their families safer from the virus. As autumn spins into view, we are clearly in the crosshairs of various unprecedented forces, meteorological, medical, political and cultural. I don’t know anyone who isn’t feeling anxious. Please, if you are among the sanguine and

secure, let me know your secret. The meteorological stressors seem an apt metaphor for the general distress of observing our country in the clutches of destructive forces: a defeated president who won’t go away, a clutch of sycophants who will sell their souls for another year in office and, unbelievably, millions of folks who feel so angry and disenfranchised that they would rather risk a tussle with Covid — or possibly a fatal encounter with Covid — than get an inoculation that will keep them safe. The difference is that, unlike the random violence of tornadoes and floods that have plagued us this summer, the political disturbances in the field have intentionality. The past administration targeted climate change initiatives and women’s rights and diversity. For four years we suffered a vacuum of moral leadership; the center frayed, and we haven’t yet repaired the damage that was inflicted on our departments of justice and state and housing and health. President Biden, love him, hate him or ignore him, is pushing against a tide of irrational vitriol that would overturn a legal election and let chaos reign. In the

name of “freedom,” people are rejecting a vaccine that can save the lives of the children they love. Somehow this all intertwines with the catastrophic weather we have endured this summer. When nature goes wild, some part of us knows to hunker down and ride it out, because when the storm passes, the sun will shine again. Order will be restored. But on the political front, there is no such guarantee. We are not done with hurricanes this season. As The Weather Channel warns: “We may still expect storms bringing exceptionally high waves … The sea may be white with driving spray; visibility very seriously affected…” It goes on to say that even large vessels may disappear for long periods of time in the deep troughs between the heaving seas. A fearsome description. But such storms can be survived. More frightening is our current political and pandemic cyclone. Our ship of state is also disappearing into deep troughs, and who knows if it can rise again? We must not take our eyes off this prize. Everything, including the actual weather, is conspiring to distract us from monitor-

lease, if you’re among the sanguine and secure, let me know your secret.

ing the attacks on voting rights and women’s rights. We need energy and focus to stay vigilant. We cannot do any of the important work that needs to be done unless we get the vaccine available throughout the country. Our hospitals and medical teams need relief, and we can help return to some normalcy if we get inoculated. If we get our kids inoculated. On the weather front, how many 500year storms do we need to survive before the anti-science refuseniks realize it is still within our power to curb the emissions and toxins that affect our climate? The storms, the pandemic and the politics seem pulled into a tightening vortex, playing out here and now. My sense is that our time, this particular time and place, autumn 2021, will stand out in history. It will be important, someday, to have the story of these troubling days set in print. What we can’t know, or even surmise, is how this unsettling season will evolve. The hurricanes will eventually blow out to sea. We will pick up the pieces. But after this season of political madness, who will remain standing? Each of us can do something: get the vaccine, wear a mask and, when it’s time, vote as if our democracy depended on it. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Vaccine race is community-by-community effort

ore than 80 percent of Nassau County adults have received at least their first dose of a Covid19 vaccine. That’s excellent. Overall, about 68 percent of Nassau residents who are eligible for the vaccine — that is, anyone over age 12 — are now fully vaccinated. That’s good, but not great. Not great because that leaves 30 percent — a sizable number — who are yet to complete their vaccination regimens. And here’s the thing: Not all communities are equal in the race to vaccinate as many people as humanly possible. The vaccination rate is just above 50 percent in Cedarhurst, Elmont, Freeport, Inwood, Lawrence, Mill Neck, Old Westbury and Uniondale. In other communities, it actually falls below 50 percent. In the 11549 ZIP code of Hempstead, it’s 26

percent; Greenvale, 35 percent; and Roosevelt, 48 percent. In any number of other communities, the rate hovers in the 60 percent range. Compare that with the rate in the 11020 ZIP code of Great Neck, where it’s 80 percent; Jericho, 78 percent; Plainview, 78 percent; the 11040 ZIP code of New Hyde Park, 75 percent; Mineola, 74 percent; Port Washington, 74 percent; Williston Park, 74 percent; Merrick, 73 percent; and Syosset, 73 percent. It becomes clear, based on these statistics, compiled by the federal and state governments, that there is a wide disparity in vaccination rates between many of the county’s more affluent communities and its low-income neighborhoods. County health officials must ask why people in working-class areas have fallen so far

And don’t forget your flu shot this year

ith all the highly necessary talk about the Covid-19 vaccine, it would be easy to overlook the flu shot, which each of us should get every year, but only about half of us do. With the coronavirus pandemic still raging, it’s more important than ever to get a flu shot this year. Then, if you do get sick, you can rule out the flu. Even if you do get the flu after receiving the shot, it’s likely to be a mild to moderate case, not the type that can knock you off your feet and send you to the hospital. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 12,000 to 60,000 people died of the flu in the U.S. each year between 2010 and 2020. That doesn’t come close to the more than

650,000 deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic since March 2020, but it is still a heavy death toll. Everyone 6 months of age and older should get a flu shot every season, with rare exceptions, according to the CDC. People with underlying health complications should be particularly vigilant about getting the vaccine. Throughout the pandemic, we have seen how those with medical conditions are far more likely to succumb to a virus. September and October are the best time to be vaccinated against the flu, the CDC says. Ideally, everyone should be vaccinated by the end of October. Flu vaccines are offered in many doctors’ offices and clinics, as well as at many pharmacies and urgent-care cen-

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behind in being vaccinated. Do they not have the time to get their shots because they are working three jobs? Do they lack access to health-care facilities? Is transportation a problem? Is English a barrier? In certain communities, Cedarhurst and Lawrence in particular, religious conviction may play a role, and Jewish spiritual leaders from throughout the Five Towns recently released a video, which is at times serious and others humorous, encouraging their congregants to get vaccinated. We applaud that effort. Such targeted campaigns are clearly needed in any number of neighborhoods throughout the county. The race to achieve herd immunity — when 75 to 80 percent of all county residents have been vaccinated — will be won one community at a time.

Honoring those we lost on Sept. 11, which ‘seems like yesterday’ To the Editor: Many of us have our own stories that carry the memory of one or more of the 2,977 family members, friends or neighbors taken from us in an inexplicable act of hatred 20 years ago. Those of us old enough to remember Sept. 11, 2001, know that evil exists because we saw and felt it, and many continue to live and suffer with its effects. As President George W. Bush said in his address to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 20, 2001, we were “a nation awakened to danger and called to defend freedom.” Sept. 11 seems like yesterday, yet the calendar tells us that the memories and the scars are now 20 years old. It’s stunning to think that there is a generation of Americans who have no memory of that day other than what they have seen on video or learned

ters. You need a flu vaccine every year for two reasons. First, your immunity protection from vaccination declines over time, so an annual inoculation is needed for optimal protection, according to the CDC. Second, flu viruses are constantly changing. The composition of flu vaccines is reviewed annually by CDC officials, and is updated to protect against the viruses that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming flu season. It takes about two weeks after your shot for antibodies to develop in the body and provide protection against influenza virus infection. That’s why it’s best to get vaccinated before flu viruses start to spread in your community.

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ears ago, my wife and I walked onto a Martha Vineyard’s beach with my Cornell University advisee and his parents, only to be confronted by a white man asking where we thought we were going. My advisee’s father, a professor at a prestigious medical school, who was African-American, replied, “I could ask you the same. I own this beach.” That wasn’t my first experience with racism, but it highlighted how education, expertise and wealth can be denied by the color of one’s roBert skin. My first memosCott ry of how race can distort reality is of when a friend and I were wrestling on the sidewalk on Third Avenue in Mount Vernon, N.Y., on the way home from school. We were having fun, but a passerby told us to stop. “Blacks and whites shouldn’t fight,” she said, instead of just saying that kids shouldn’t fight. My neighbor and I were simply playing, and unlike that lady, we could see each other merely as friends. I’m not colorblind. I see color and shades of color, but I try to see people for who they are as individuals. This is called

respect. When I was at camp as a 9-yearold, I remember small signs that lined the paths. Each said, “Others,” meaning think of others, welcome others, respect others. We put similar signs around the Adelphi University campus when I was president. Respect is a two-way exchange. Racism denies respect. Racism rejects the humanity of another person or group. We should understand that demands for respect and dignity are not demands for privilege and standing. We should teach in our schools and houses of worship, and certainly in our homes, that others should be respected even when they look different from us. Respect is different from tolerance. Tolerance is passive acceptance. Respect is an active engagement with another person as an equal. Respect requires action, while tolerance requires no commitment. In our society, many people grow up in communities lacking diversity because of decades of laws and regulations that, even when overturned, had set a foundation for segregated housing and divided communities. Yet the children who grow up in these towns and villages will most likely one day supervise, or be supervised by, or be a neighbor of, someone of a different

s a Black friend and I wrestled on a sidewalk long ago, a woman admonished us.

Letters in school. One of the enduring lessons of that day was that we must never be afraid to recognize evil for what it is, call it by name and be willing to fight together as one against it. It is that lesson that makes the events unfolding in Afghanistan so alar ming and disheartening to watch, as some of the very organizations responsible for the horrors of that day celebrate our haphazard withdrawal. What have our leaders forgotten? But those of us old enough to remember Sept. 11 also remember that goodness exists. That must be recognized, too. We remember the heroes who rushed toward danger to save thousands of lives, giving their own lives in the process or now suffering from 9/11-related illnesses. We see that goodness today in our first responders, health care workers and so many others these past 18 months, in ways large and small, as we have tried to help one another through this unprecedented fight against Covid-19. Patriot Day, 9/11, is important as our opportunity to “never forget” the evil inflicted on so many, and at the same time, embrace our capacity for good. It is our opportu-

ethnic or racial background. If they don’t learn the value of respect for others in their homes or schools, where will they? In 1944, the Carnegie Corporation funded research by Swedish Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal to study race relations in the United States. In his report, entitled “An American Dilemma,” he noted the contradictions of American democracy. The “dilemma” refers to a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the cruel realities of racial discrimination. The U. S. military was still segregated in the 1940s. Myrdal was quoted as saying that Americans “of all national origins, regions, creeds, and colors” hold in common “the ideals of the essential dignity and equality of all human beings, of inalienable rights to freedom, justice, and opportunity.” And yet, he said, these ideals were compromised by the pervasive violations of the dignity of Black Americans by public policy and private privations. The legacy of slavery and restrictive covenants robbed Black people of wealth and opportunity. They were denied G.I. Bill benefits given to white veterans, which created much of the white middle class and ensured home ownership, the bedrock of American economic wealth.

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nity to honor those we lost through service to people, but just as important, to take the time to make sure that our children and grandchildren understand what happened that day and why it is important that we must respect one another and be vigilant and united in defense of our values and way of life. God bless the lost and the families left behind. May God bless those we continue to lose and those suffering from 9/11-related illnesses. May God bless our military, police and first responders who keep us safe and protect our freedom. And may God continue to bless the United States of America. STEVE RHOADS Nassau County legislator

CorreCtion The author of last week’s column “In celebration of teachers” was misidentified. The column was written by Robert A. Scott, not Alan Singer.

Lighting up the sky in tribute — Lower Manhattan

Schools were segregated. There was a systematic denial of respect, opportunity and equal access before the law. A modern-day Myrdal would find many of these same dilemmas today. Housing and school segregation persist, restrictions on voting are flourishing, systemic racism is common, and respect as people and as citizens is refused to Black Americans. The history of racial discrimination is being denied even as it continues by those who deny it. Mutual respect is essential to social cohesion and civil discourse. To deny the humanity of millions of our neighbors is to limit our nation’s capacity to fulfill its ideals. These are difficult times. My hope is that, even in times like these, families, clergy and teachers will prepare children with the basic values of civility, sincerity and respect for others. We should each know that we are the “other” to some, and that others deserve the respect that we believe is due to us. Our national values — freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, democracy itself — will wither without mutual respect. Dr. Robert A. Scott is president emeritus and university professor emeritus of Adelphi University and author of “How University Boards Work” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018; Eric Hoffer Awardee, 2019).

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Reflections on race, racism and respect

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