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Vol. 29 No. 41
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Playing hockey for St. Jude’s Lynbrook boy raises $1,000 in a single day for cancer research By DANIEl oFFNER doffner@liherald.com
Courtesy Kathleen Healey
AIDEN HEAlEy AND his brother Liam, 5, helped raise money for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
Lemonade, slap shots and government officials helped a 7-year-old Lynbrook boy raise more than $1,000 for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Aiden Healey started his fundraising efforts three years ago with a lemonade stand, raising $960, and this year he stepped up his game with charity street hockey. He came up with the idea of opening a lemonade stand as a charitable fundraiser in 2019, after watching a commercial
for St. Jude’s. According to his dad, Mike Healey, Aiden saw the commercial for St. Jude’s and began asking questions about why the children were missing their hair, which his father attempted to explain in the simplest of terms. “He said, ‘Daddy, I want to help those kids,” Mike Healey said. “Aiden said they could have his piggybank.” Following the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Aiden became a big fan of the New York Rangers, which motivated him and Continued on page 15
Residential rental development switches ownership
The Cornerstone at Yorkshire sold to New Jersey-based commercial investment company By DANIEl oFFNER doffner@liherald.com
The Cornerstone at Yorkshire, a recently constructed 80-unit residential apartment complex at 5 Freer St. in Lynbrook, was recently sold to the Birch Group, a development firm from New Jersey. According to Long Island Business News, the property, which once housed the former Capri Lynbrook Motor Inn, was sold for $42.85 million by the Farmingdale-based developers Terwilliger and Bartone. It was at 98 percent occupancy at the
time of the sale. The Capri has a checkered past of prostitution and drugs. It was a nuisance for several years — on which the village expended much time and energy in the hopes of revoking its license. Mayor Alan Beach had previously referred to the property as a “magnet for undesirable activity,” and helped champion the redevelopment in hopes that it would revitalize the area and help bolster local commerce. News of the sale is particularly surprising considering that the Terwillinger and Bartone Properties group tried for years
to build an apartment complex in Lynbrook. When the project was finally approved in 2020, the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency g ranted mortgagerecording tax abatement, sales tax abatement, and a 20-year payment in lieu of taxes agreement for the four-story residential property. Despite several delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the property officially opened in December 2021. It comprises eight two-bedroom apartments with rents of roughly $3,400 per month, 44 one-bedroom apart-
ments estimated to cost $2,800 per month, and 28 studio apartments with estimated remts of $2,300 per month. The Department of Housing and Urban Development requires that eight of the units be set aside as designated workforce housing, which requires
that they be leased at a reduced rent for households earning up to 80 percent of the median income for the area.. The Cornerstone at Yorkshire also includes several high-end amenities, open floor plans, energy-efficient appliances and more. Continued on page 4