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‘It’s a big step for us’ Northwell opens health clinic for Belmont Park workers the health and social welfare needs of several thousand backstretch workers. Northwell Health recently “BEST is thrilled to collaboannounced the opening of a rate again with Northwell to prohealth clinic for Belmont Park vide the hardworking backworkers. stretch workers of Belmont and “The clinic will Aqueduct with onprovide a continuum going, first-class priof care and offer mary and preventawellness programs tive care,” said the for the thousands of organization’s execbackstretch workers utive director, Paul at Belmont Park,” Ruchames. Northwell Health Many backstretch said in a statement workers are Hispanon Oct. 28, referring ic migrants who live to workers who work in dorms at the park, in stables and with Northwell said in horses at the racethe statement, addtrack. “The free proing that issues such g ram is par t of as language barriers Northwell’s commit- MICHAEL have created health ment to providing care complications equitable care to all DOWLING for workers in the New Yorkers,” the President and CEO, past. statement added. “While language Northwell Health The 1,000-squarebarriers and culturfoot health clinic al biases are often was run by another operator reasons why some immigrants until October 2020. Northwell don’t seek care, Northwell has will offer services in collabora- gotten out of the starting gate tion with the New York Racing quickly,” the statement said, addAssociation, the organization ing that Northwell offered flu that operates the track, and the vaccinations during the last Backstretch Employee Service week of October for 100 backTeam of New York, or BEST, the nonprofit that works to better CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
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MALVERNE HIGH SCHOOL students Olivia Brown, Sabrina Ramhararkh and Kaila Lawrence took part in the Linder Place Project, a student-run campaign to have the street name changed.
Students push to rename a Malverne village street By JORDAN VALLONE and LISA MARGARIA jvallone@liherald.com, lmargaria@liherald.com
In the Village of Malverne, residents have likely walked or driven along Linder Place — named after Paul Linder, an early settler of the community. The street is home to Maurice C. Downing Elementary School, and its name has become a source of controversy over the past year. As reported in the Herald in August 2020, Linder was a
leader of Nassau County’s Ku Klux Klan a century ago. As racial tensions heightened last year and the Black Lives Matter movement grew, a Unity March in Malverne last summer brought Linder, and the street he named, to residents’ attention. Since the 2020-21 school year, Malverne High School students have been working on the Linder Place Project, and were invited to present their research — and their arguments for renaming the
street — to the village board at a meeting in June. Then, on Oct. 28, students presented the findings of their project at a Humanities Cultural Learning event, “What’s in a Name: The Linder Place Project,” hosted by the district. In a meeting with the Herald, three of the 17 students who took part in the project, Olivia Brown, 14, Kaila Lawrence, 17, and Sabrina Ramhararkh, 16, all of Malverne, CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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HERALD SCHOOLS Malverne HS choral students earn prestigious spot The Malverne Union Free School District announce dthat four of its Malverne High School choral students have been accepted into the American Choral Directors Associations Eastern Division Gospel Honor Choir. The students went through a very rigorous audition process. This included working with Malverne High School Choral Director Kenneth Zagare to learn an excerpt from a piece in the choral repertoire, singing scales and a portion of their NYSSMA song from last year. Students include Carly Bottitta (Soprano 2), Austin Cange (Bass 2) Lauren Dinglasan (Alto 2) and Niles Wilson (Bass 1). They will be representing Malverne in Boston, Massachusetts from Feb. 9-12, 2022, where they will be working with Indiana University choral professor Dr. Raymond Wise. Dr. Wise serves as the professor of practice in the African American African Diaspora Studies department and instructs courses in African American music. He also serves as the associate director of the African American Arts Institute and is the founder and president of Raise Productions’ Center for the Gospel Arts, providing educational training and resources for gospel artists and the community. Zagare said the talents of these students are top notch and is confident that they will represent Malverne well. “I am truly honored to work in Malverne where the arts are supported and appreciated by both the district administration and the entire community.”
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FOUR MALVERNE HIGH School students were selected into the ACDA Eastern Division Gospel Honor Choir. Pictured from left, District Supervisor of Music, Fine Arts and Family and Consumer Science Michael Messina, Austin Cange, Carly Bottitta, Lauren Dinglasan, Niles Wilson and Malverne High School Choral Director Kenneth Zagare.
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September fire alters Lakeview history By ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com
Stores and apartments located at the corner of Woodfield Road and Eagle Avenue in Lakeview were devastated in a building fire on Sept. 19 that displaced 30 people. “The business owners and those who lived there experienced a huge loss. So have the many inhabitants of the community who have treasured memories of operating stores, bars, upholsterers and butcher shops along that storefront as well as inhabiting the apartments above them,” said Lesly McAvoy, vice president of the West Hempstead Historical Society. The corner at Woodfield Road and Eagle Avenue was first photographed around 1926, when schools closed for parades and buildings decorated windows to celebrate the very first electric train to run into Hempstead along the LIRR West Hempstead line, which stopped at the Lakeview train station. “This event radically improved train reliability and took West Hempstead from a small agricultural community to an attractive area for commuters and home development,” McAvoy said. The store at the corner of Woodfield Road and Eagle Avenue was owned by the Hockenjos family. They sold soda, candy, cigarettes, Reid’s Ice Cream, newspapers and fireworks, which was legal at the time. The family also operated Bob’s Bar and Grill, then located a few doors down. In 1946, the store was sold to Carl and Lillian Herman, who at first called the storefront the Lakeview Sports Shop. The Herman’s sold “Garcia Grande” cigars as well as stationary items, and the store served as a neighborhood lending library. The owners lived above the store, which was renamed “Carl’s” in 1964. When the fire took place on Sept. 19, the businesses and apartments were destroyed. “The spaciousness seems unreal,” McAvoy said.
THE STORE ORIGINALLY owned by the Hockenjos family was sold to Tom Sheehan in 1979 and eventually became the Family Place Star Salon. THE CORNER SUFFERED a devastating fire on Sept. 19.
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THE WOODFIELD ROAD-EAGLE Avenue corner was first photographed around 1926, when windows belonging to businesses along the block were decorated to celebrate the first electric LIRR train to offer service to Hempstead, which also stopped at the Lakeview station.
MSSN gives first Covid vaccine to L.I. kids can resume normal life and visit family from out of state.” Noelle Blount’s boys — Mason, 8, Jaxon, 7, Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside and Kameron, 5 — sat in chairs six feet apart continued combating the pandemic by admin- as they were vaccinated. The Freeport resiistering the first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine dents appeared excited to receive the vaccine, to 5- to 11-year-olds in front of Long Beach City especially Noelle. “We’ve been waiting for Hall last Wednesday. approval and for this day,” she MSSN vaccinators arrived in said, “and I feel like this was a the Vaxmobile in the early afterresearched, educated decision to noon to administer 10 vaccines. keep them healthy and do our “I think that children, once part to find closure for this panthey get vaccinated, can talk to demic. It’s the first step in moving their friends and tell them they forward from this.” got it and that it wasn’t that bad,” “It feels like a weight’s being said Dr. Twana Jackson, a MSSN lifted off my shoulders,” Marisa pediatric hospitalist. Jackson Torreblanca, of Long Beach, said. assured parents that the most conHer sons, Wade, 9, and Kellan, 7, cerning side effect, heart inflamwere also among the group vaccimation, is extremely rare and has nated. “I’m excited for my kids to not required hospitalizations. have play dates again, to be able to ANNABELLE Annabelle Torres, 7, of Island take their masks off when they Park, was the first of the children TORRES play sports and to just feel a little to be vaccinated. “I was very ner- Island Park freer.” Torreblanca said she leapt vous, but since I came here with at the opportunity to have her my brother, I felt brave,” Torres children vaccinated as soon as the said. Her brother Christian, 10, sat next to her federal Food and Drug Administration gave its while receiving his vaccine. Their mother, approval. Christina, said that after Annabelle and ChrisNone of the 10 children vaccinated shed tian get their second doses, the whole family tears as they took their jabs, and all received will be vaccinated. lollipops for their bravery. According to “We are excited to do our part for the com- MSSN officials, trips to the Freeport, Baldwin munity,” Torres said. “I’m excited for them to and Island Park school districts are in the be able to set the example that this is some- works to continue to vaccinate the youth popthing safe and something that maybe more ulation and return children to a normal parents will feel comfortable with, so that we school experience.
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an issue of special clothes if your child feels comfortable in jeans. Don't set up behavioral rules in advance, such as "be sure you shake hands with Uncle ..." Bring activities Bring along some of your child's favorite things - a book, a game - to provide her with a sense of familiarity and allow her to retreat if things become overly stimulating. Plan carefully Avoid attending too many festivities, and allow some cool-down time between events. Organize your schedule with your child's individual temperament in mind; each child's tolerance for stimulation and ability to adapt vary. Give the child a warning before the end of an activity, which gives her a chance to readjust at her own pace.
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Stay calm Your kids will echo your mood. Praise your child. And remember to reward good behavior. ■
Courtesy of NYU Child Study Center. Above photo: To fully enjoy the festive season, we can all benefit by being flexible with our definition of what a holiday should look like. Our childhood traditions and rituals may not work for everyone — and every child. Let’s create new memories and newly define what holidays look like for our own families.
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Living alone: good or bad? Guest Column
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Imagine this constructive dialogue for a slacker “Damn, I only have one clean underwear in my drawer.” “Yup, you’re right; you gotta do the laundry.” “I got too much to do, I don’t feel like it.” “Too bad, you still gotta do it.” “But I hate doing the laundry.” “Well then, wait one more day and see if the laundry does itself. If it doesn’t, you better get a move on.” “Yeah, I know. You’re right.” “Glad you appreciate having me around.”
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perfectionist “I can’t leave the house until everything’s in order.” “Chill out; the house looks fine.” “But I didn’t vacuum or dust today.” “Do it later. Your house is okay; it doesn’t have to be perfect.” “But you know I like things to be perfect.” “That’s why you need me around to remind you that good enough is good enough.” “You’re right. Thanks. You saved me from myself, once again.” Dialogues such as these voiced out loud (remember, nobody’s around to hear them) don’t make you crazy. They keep you from going crazy. They let you be both the nudger and the nudgie, the whipper and the whippee, nudging yourself toward better behaviors, away from behaviors that lead to less desirable outcomes. Whether you’re living alone or with another, constructive internal dialogues help you move forward in the very best way! Linda Sapadin, Ph.D., psychologist, coach and author specializes in helping people overcome procrastination and debilitating anxiety and fear. Contact her at DrSapadin@aol.com. Visit her websites www.BeatProcrastinationCoach. com and www.PsychWisdom.com.
New York Islanders donate turkeys to food banks The New York Islanders partnered with Stop & Shop on its annual Turkey Express program as the supermarket donated 1,000 Thanksgiving turkeys each to Island Harvest Food Bank and Long Island Cares, Inc.- The Harry Chapin Food Bank. Several Islanders alumni assisted in the donation: NHL Hall of Famer, Clark Gillies; Brightwaters resident and Islander defenseman, Eric Cairns; and Steve Webb, a former Islanders forward. According to the two food banks, one in six children on Long Island are food insecure with childhood food insecurity rates on Long Island increasing by 26 pecent as compared to pre-pandemic levels. “Hunger is a year-round problem on Long Island that has unfortunately increased because of the pandemic and the region’s high cost of living. However, no one should experience the harsh reality of hunger, especially children,” said Randi Shubin Dresner, president and CEO, Island Harvest Food Bank.
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Some people love living alone -no parent to gripe about what you didn’t do. No spouse to give you “the look” when you’ve left your dirty clothes on the floor. No kids to wake you up when you want to sleep late. No roommate to disturb you when you want to be left alone. To top it off, living with someone who knows all your flaws makes it hard for you to maintain the delusion that you’re the top banana. Many people who live with someone dream about a day when they‘ll be able to live alone. What a relief it’ll be! Nobody on their inda case, telling them to clean up their mess, criticizing them for what they didn’t do, noticing all their bad habits. In short, no one likes to be nagged or seen naked in their worst moments. Sounds good … but here’s the rub. It turns out that many people who live alone discover that when nobody is on their case, they don’t do well. They let things slide. They put off doing what they know they should be doing. They feel lonely but find it hard to admit. Even for workaholics or perfectionists, living alone can create problems because they have difficulty knowing
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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Monday, Nov. 15
Virtual Tai Chi Join West Hempstead Public Library and Eddie Hug between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. for a virtual tai chi class. Registration is required. No class is scheduled for Nov. 24. Access to the courses costs $30. Please note: Your registration will NOT be approved until payment is received. Once your payment is received, you will be sent a link to join the class. Please make your check payable to WHPL and mail to West Hempstead Public Library Attn: Programs, 500 Hempstead Avenue, West Hempstead, NY 11552. Include on the check: Your name, address, phone number and the name of the class. Register online at the library’s website, www.whplibrary. org.
Fall Scavenger Hunt Join Malverne Public Library for an allday kids scavenger hunt to search for hidden pictures and win a small prize! To register, call (516) 599-0750 X 303 or email malvernekids@malvernelibrary. org and ask for Antoinette, the children’s librarian.
Discovering a Masterpiece Join West Hempstead Public Library for a virtual presentation between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. on the journey to authenticate a marble bust of Napoleon sculpted by Auguste Rodin, which had been lost to since the 1930s. While Mallory Mortillaro was cataloging the artwork housed inside the Hartley Dodge Memorial, she uncovered this masterpiece had been sitting in plain sight in the New Jersey town hall for almost 80 years. In the presentation. She also shares the story of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, the woman who gifted this artwork, along with an entire town hall, all in the name of her one and only lost son. This lecture is fully illustrated with engaging present day and historic photographs. Register online at the library’s website, www.whplibrary.org.
Starting a Business Join the West Hempstead Public Library and SCORE between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. for an installation of a seven-part virtual series that will address aspects of starting a business. Topics include planning, budgeting, marketing and more. Session one will focus on starting a business with a small budget. Register online at the library’s website, www. whplibrary.org.
Thursday, Nov. 18 Childrens activity: Thanksgiving Pillow
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Discover a masterpiece The West Hempstead Public Library is holding a virtual presentation about the discovery of a longlost sculpture considered a masterpiece on Monday, Nov. 15 between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. ber to December and costs $30. Your registration will not be approved until payment is received. Once your payment is received, you will be sent a link to join the class. Please make your check payable to WHPL and mail to West Hempstead Public Library. Register online at the library’s website, www. whplibrary.org.
songs, dancing, stories and bubbles. Please bring a blanket or towel to sit on. Registration is required, and you must register for the six weeks of sessions. To register, call (516) 599-0750 X 303 or email malvernekids@malvernelibrary.org and ask for children’s librarian Antoinette.
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Join the West Hempstead Public Library and Marilyn Bunger between 9:45 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. for another installment of her virtual exercise and strength training class via Zoom. Registration is required. The class is held weekly and gives you access to Marilyn’s recorded videos 24/7 for 13 sessions from Octo-
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Join Malverne Public Library between either 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. or between 11 a.m. and 11:30 AM for Move and Groove Outdoor Storytime at Westwood Park for children ages one and up. Join the library for an outdoor music and movement storytime with
Join the West Hempstead Public Library and Sandy Hindren for a virtual conversation circle between 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Chat with friends and neighbors as those who attend pose questions or topics and give everyone a chance to respond. Attendees learn from each other, share experiences and wisdom, and clarify goals and values. The conversations aim to foster deeper knowledge and understanding as we talk about money, improving society,
medical issues, any concerns of the day, and all topics that arise. Have a topic you’d like to discuss? Join the conversation and share it with the group. Registrants will receive a copy of Sandy’s book, “7 Keys to Love.” Registration is required with an email address. A class link will be emailed to participants. Register online at the library’s website, www.whplibrary.or.
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Malverne was incorporated as a village on April 13, 1921. Sagine Pierre Charles was named the W.H. Chamber of Commerce’s 2021 Businessperson. Two W.H. students attending Nassau BOCES Barry Tech earned awards on Oct. 28. Congregation Shaaray Shalom held a virtual ceremony for Holocaust survivors on Nov. 7 Karen Bury was named the Malverne Chamber of Commerce’s 2021 Businessperson.
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Herbert Rosenberg, a World War II veteran and prison camp survivor, was honored during his 100th birthday on Saturday at his Cleveland Avenue home, on the Rockville Centre-Oceanside border, by his family, friends and fellow American Legion post members. The parade saw Rockville Centre firefighters, Nassau County police and veterans drive by his home for a salute to Rosenberg. Rosenberg was drafted into the Army in 1942 when he was 20, and he worked his way up to the rank of staff sergeant, becoming a right waist gunner on a B-17 bomber. In 1944, Rosenberg’s aircraft “Punchboard,” of the 452nd Bombardment Group, was shot down by German fighters during a mission over Poznan, Poland, and crashed in Nazioccupied Denmark. The crew were captured immediately and sent to the Stalag Luft 17 prison camp. During the procession of firetrucks, police cars and motorcycles, Rosenberg teared up. Attendees also sang “God Bless HERBERT America” and “Happy Birthday” to Rosenberg. A World War II ROSENBERG Jeep and truck brought up the World War II veteran rear of the procession. “It’s very emotional,” Herb’s son Bob Rosenberg said. “For many years growing up, he never spoke about his experiences, and it was only after the past 20 years or so that he opened up about it.” The Rosenberg extended family celebrated their Thanksgiving dinner after the ceremonies, since it was one of the first times during the pandemic when they could all be together. They were extremely careful around Herb, donning masks in close proximity to him to keep him safe. Frank Colon, the post commander of Rockville Centre American Legion Post 303, helped organize the event for his neighbor and fellow post member. He also spoke about the many incredible experiences of just listening to Rosenberg’s story. “He’s an inspiration,” Colon said. “He’s like a treasure chest of history of this country, which we need to continue.” A 48-star flag, hung over the porch of Rosenberg’s house, was originally to be used for a planned parade for the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, before the pandemic forced it to be canceled. Rosenberg was to be an honoree at that parade. “I’m in tears,” Rosenberg said. “I never expected anything like this. I hear ‘thank you for your service’ all the time, but being here with family and neighbors, I break down and cry a little bit.” “We all suffered,” Rosenberg said. “I lost three years of my life in the service and as a prisoner of war, but I’m happy now. I’m here with my friends, neighbors and family, and I can’t ask for more.” A Queens native, Rosenberg spent 15 months in harsh
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HERBERT ROSENBERG SURROUNDED by family and friends in front of his home on the Rockville Centre-Oceanside border. conditions at the camp before German guards abandoned all prisoners in a forest near the camp, where they were eventually rescued by American soldiers and returned home. After returning stateside, Rosenberg attended pharmacy school, married his wife, Barbara, and settled in the area in the mid-1950s. He opened a pharmacy in East Rockaway. In 2016, Rosenberg was awarded a prisoner of war medal from the Department of Defense recognizing his survival in the camp as a Jewish-American soldier. Rockville Centre Mayor Francis Murray and trustees Katie Conlon and Emilio Grillo presented Rosenberg with a village proclamation thanking him for his service.
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Malverne students push to rename street detailed the project. “We got to pick a side on whether or not we thought the street should be renamed,” Ramhararkh said, “and a lot of us created things like documentaries, art pieces and research essays. We tried to exhibit some of these things and display our perspective on the issues — and also, just raise awareness about the reason why we wanted to have the street renamed.” At the event two weeks ago, students screened their documentaries, displayed their artwork and read essays aloud to fel-
low students and other community members. “At first, I was kind of confused,” Lawrence said of initially learning about the street name. “And then I started to read into it, and started to learn more about its history and background — and I was like, OK, why is there such a discussion?” “Now, it’s kind of up to the village — you know, the name change,” Brown added. “It’s the people in the town who need to step forward and say that they want to make a change.” Jason Mach, the Malverne Union Free School District’s supervisor of humani-
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ties, explained that the students worked with the Malverne Historical and Preservation Society to learn more about Linder. “At [the Unity March], they were talking about this as one of the potential things that needed to be addressed,” Mach said of the street name. “It either refreshed it or brought it to the minds of . . . a lot of people. It’s sort of something in the town that everyone kind of knew, but sort of wasn’t out there.” “It was kind of disregarded in a way,” Ramhararkh said. “It was seen as, ‘Well, it’s just the name of a street,’ and while some did think the renaming would be like erasing part of Malverne’s history, other people thought it should be renamed.”
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A HISTORIC NEWSPAPER clipping mentions Linder participating in a traditional Ku Klux Klan cross-burning ceremony.
One challenge was the lack of reliable information. “There aren’t many accessible resources for people to educate themselves on this,” Brown explained. “Even if people were aware of who Paul Linder was, and that he was a KKK member — you search his name and there’s not much information that you can receive.” The NAACP, along with a former student, Kyle Richard, who organized the Unity March, asked the district to encourage current students to research Linder, according to Mach. “After we presented [to the village] in June, the promise was that we would do this again and showcase our students some more,” Mach said. “Thursday’s [event] was making good on that promise.” The students presented their projects to a crowd of about 40 of their classmates as well as roughly two dozen parents and community members. Ramhararkh screened a documentary she made with a partner, Brown presented an argumentative essay, and Lawrence read a poem. Though the village board was invited, Mach said, members were unable to attend. Freshman Lorenzo Maione mentioned a July 2020 petition signed by nearly 5,400 people to rename Linder Place Cherry Lane, in honor of Elizabeth Carol Cherry, one of the first Black students to attend Downing Elementary. Cherry eventually became an educator and served the Malverne district for more than 30 years. “If the street were to be renamed to Cherry Lane,” Maione said, “it would be an excellent way to honor Miss Cherry’s legacy and to right the wrong of naming the street after Paul Linder.” “I would say that most Malverne residents and neighboring towns — because the Malverne School District comprises multiple towns, such as Lakeview and Lynbrook — would want the street renamed,” Ramhararkh said. “It’s their children that go to the [Downing] school
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“When I was first made aware of Paul Linder’s history,” senior Carly Bottitta said, “I could not even believe it to be true. The fact that young children, and myself at that age, walked down a street that exalts this figure of evil every day shakes me to my core. There’s no reason to immortalize and honor Paul Linder, who spread hatred and intolerance to our community. As small as this change may seem, this street name reflects the core values of our town. I know I speak for all of my Malverne family when I say, this is not who we are.” “Malverne has a very long history of being a school that was integrated on Long Island,” Ramhararkh said. “Long Island has a very long history of being racially segregated, and there’s a history of redlining and gentrification of minorities. Seeing Malverne as being one of those schools that started the integration process, it’s really important that they stay towards that progressiveness and make changes that speak to the community as a whole.” The school district, in fact, was the first one to receive a desegregation order from New York state in 1966. “As much as the Malverne, Lakeview and Lynbrook residents want this to happen, very few people have the time to do the research, to write the letters and speak in front of the village board,” Brown said. “[That’s] why we thought it was important to make that our job and be the voices and representation of the school district.” “I think that what our scholars did is, they took something and made it real,” Mach said. “If people know about it — it’s been 100 years. I think the conversation has been restarted. The students’ work has really brought it back to the consciousness of the people.”
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HEWLETT 1534 Broadway #103, BA, BRAND NEW GUT RENOVATION! Spacious 2 BR, 2 Bth Condo in Luxurious Jonathan Hall. LR/DR Opens Into Large Gran/Wood EIK w/ Island & Stainless Steel Appl. Laundry Rm, Pantry. Mstr Ste Boasts New Bath & Huge Walk in Closet. Terrace Facing into Courtyard. Doorman Bldg with Elevator. Indoor Garage Pkg & Storage.......................................................................... $850,000 395 Serena Rd, BA, 5 BR, 2 Bth Col on O/S Property. Updtd EIKs. 3 BR Main Level, 2 Upstairs with OSE. SD#14. Possible M/D with Proper Permits. Near All...................................... REDUCED! $749,000
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Pre-engineered panel systems are designed by the company, hopefully by engineers, and should come with plans, from the manufacturer, that can be sealed and signed by their in-house engineer. If not, plans may need to be drawn from scratch by an architect or engineer that you hire so those plans can be integrated with your house. Integrated means that the company generally just sells you a product and doesn’t necessarily give any indication of how to support the unit or how to attach the unit system to your house so that it won’t leak or move. This is the general failing of the system, since, as I experienced with most of the installations, the part I could detail was free of leaking or movement, but the units themselves leaked nearly every time. We could detail how the edges of the unit could be sealed and redundantly weather-stripped and flashed, but the frames around the glass and wall edges would unseal and leak. I even met with the corporate president/owner and identified the specific problems. Promises to correct leak issues were made but not kept, and eventually I gave up. I looked at a two-year-old system while discussing other work for a home recently. The owner described the back-and-forth misery he and his family were experiencing with their sunroom and the company. Even 25 years after I gave up, the same company is still doing things the same way. You need a detail-oriented architect and installer, even if you think you don’t. The cost of doing things twice is much greater. Good luck. © 2021 Monte Leeper Readers are encouraged to send questions to yourhousedr@aol.com, with “Herald question” in the subject line, or to Herald Homes, 2 Endo Blvd., Garden City, NY 11530, Attn: Monte Leeper, architect.
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t’s rare that you get the chance to meet your professional heroes, so when one of mine, former Newsday environmental reporter Dan Fagin, now the director of NYU’s graduate Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, recently came to Hofstra University to give an hourlong talk on his seminal book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation,” I had to attend. His 462-page masterwork, published by Bantam, recounts the decades-long history of industrialSCOTT waste mismanagement and malfeaBRINTON sance in Toms River, N.J., a seaside community of about 94,000 an hour and a half south of New York City. I read the book shortly after it was published in 2014, and ever since, I had hoped to meet Fagin, now 58, of Sea Cliff. Toms River is known for its high rate of childhood cancers, in particular leukemia among girls under 5, from the early 1970s through the 2000s. Government reports attribute the spike, at least in part, to the “public health hazards” posed by widespread soil and water contamination at a now-closed Ciba-Geigy chemical plant and a massive,
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illegal toxic-waste dump at Reich Farm, which has been cleaned up, but only came under consideration for removal from the federal Superfund Site list this year. Both the plant and the dump tainted local drinkingwater wells, according to the New Jersey Department of Health. In “Toms River,” Fagin details the sordid events that spread a witch’s brew of carcinogens among the good people of this otherwise safe community, which has a reputation for patriotism, a vibrant civic culture and a deep love of Little League baseball. Toms River reminds me of so many Long Island coastal communities — earnest, hard-working, conservativeleaning but not extreme in its political views, inhabited by professionals and bluecollar workers alike. And, as is the case in more than one Long Island community, innocent residents there were forced to cope with an industrial disaster not of their making. From 2001 to 2005, I reported on Freeport Power Plant No. 2, which for three decades had spewed unfiltered exhaust from its two 13,000-horsepower diesel ship engines into surrounding communities. I walked door to door in the neighborhoods around the plant, asking people whether someone in their homes had had or died of cancer, or whether they knew of any local people stricken by
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the disease. In house after house in the Old Lindenmere neighborhood of Merrick, people reported that someone — or multiple people — in their homes had battled cancer or died from it, with many afflicted at young ages. In one case, an entire family of four had succumbed to unusual cancers. I could never call the neighborhood a “cancer cluster,” a designation that required confirmation through years of study to determine whether the cancer cases people reported were a random pattern — an accident of nature, if you will — or were tied to an industrial pollutant such as diesel exhaust, found by scientists to be among the most carcinogenic substances in the world. I worried about my reporting: Was I unnecessarily scaring people? Once I had begun, however, I quickly realized I couldn’t stop until the plant was shut down. Otherwise, residents would have lived in constant fear, and many potential homebuyers might have avoided the area, depressing housing prices. I wrote 44 stories, and thanks largely to then State Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr., Long Island Power Authority Chairman Richard Kessel, and Merrick civic activists Joe Kralovich and Bob Young, the plant was closed in March 2002 and replaced in September 2005 by a clean-burning natural-gas
hen it comes to health crises, it’s not that far from Toms River, N.J., to Freeport.
plant that included pollution controls. The old plant, grandfathered from the Clean Air Act of 1970 because it was completed in 1969, had none. I had a question for Fagin: Should journalists pursue such stories through anecdotal reporting, despite the lack of an official cancer-cluster designation? I was heartened by his answer: Journalists mustn’t ignore such stories. We must be honest with our audiences about “the lack of evidence” — that is, the dearth of state and federal data to back people’s assertions — but we should press forward. Whew! I was hoping he’d say that. Two decades later, I know that pursuing the power plant story was the right thing to do. On Oct. 22, 2001, I snapped a photo of 9-year-old Tyler Seaman, of Old Lindenmere, clutching two candles at a vigil outside a state public hearing over Plant No. 2’s operating permit. The photo appeared on the front page of the Oct. 25-Oct. 31 Merrick and Bellmore Heralds, and I included Tyler’s comments from the hearing in the story. “I am afraid every day that I will not see another day,” he said. In 2006, Tyler learned he had chordoma, a rare bone cancer that lodges at the base of the skull or in the spine. He died in 2010, at 18. 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.
To sleep, perchance to pop awake again
n my hopeful search for common ground between the political and cultural forces of the far right and the far left, I have pretty much come up empty. Until now. After much consideration and not that much scientific research (since so many people don’t believe in it anyway), I realize that what many of us have in common is sleeplessness. I generally don’t ask friends how they sleep, but more and more often, someone mentions that their sleep has RANDI changed during KREISS and post-pandemic, if we even are “post,” which is part of the problem. I imagine that folks on the right are up at night worrying about the big money the Dems want to spend. Some tell me they think that, if the Build Back Better bills pass, the money will be mismanaged or disappear into a maze of inefficient government programs. I hear fears that undeserving people will get a “free ride” and others will have to pay their tab. They think about President Biden’s age and
wonder if he can lead us in the world. Who will pay for it all? they ask. Some Republicans resist vaccine mandates and mask mandates, believing their civil liberties are being violated. They stay up at night worrying about what their kids are being taught in school. Yeah, it’s enough to keep you tossing and turning. I know what folk on the left are thinking, because that’s where I stand, although I am losing patience with the far left and finding myself drifting to the center. No wonder we can’t sleep: We’re all floating. I worry that resistance to Covid vaccine mandates will perpetuate a chronic pandemic, unleashing unknowable variants. I think the Dems, addicted to infighting, will lose a one-time opportunity to pass legislation this session that would truly help people with child care and elder care and medical coverage. Here is the chance to repair roads and bridges and outdated schools. The Dems have failed miserably in communicating the good stuff in these bills, while perseverating publicly on everything that will be left out of a compromise package. I so believe in what they’re doing, but their message isn’t reso-
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nating with voters. One commentator advised the Dems to stop giving us the detailed recipe for what you’re baking and let us taste the brownies! The other stuff I worry about is, oh, basic things like no one can agree on facts or the truth or whether or not John F. Kennedy Jr. is really dead or when the last election will be overthrown. We haven’t even touched on gender rights and racial equality and climate change, and why anti-Semitism is surging across America. Last night I lay awake thinking about the fact that hundreds of QAnon followers gathered in Dallas last week to greet JFK Jr., who has been dead since 1999. They believed that he would appear and help Donald Trump become president again. How can you sleep when this kind of aberrational thinking is gaining traction? So, can we agree that wherever we sit on the political and cultural spectrum, our worries are keeping us up at night? In the world of sleep science, five major disorders are recognized: insomnia, restless leg syndrome, sleep apnea, narcolepsy and REM sleep disorder. I am describing
o matter your politics, it seems, you’ve got plenty to worry about.
something new that blossomed with the pandemic and now feels as chronic as the uncertainty with which we live. Back in 2020, once I realized that Covid19 would not be a two- or three-week sprint, my sleep changed. I would fall asleep because I was emotionally exhausted and then I would pop awake, and this would go on for hours. When I woke in the morning, my heart would be racing. I’ve learned some breathing techniques and other ways to talk myself down and relax. But I don’t sleep as peacefully as I once did. When I pop awake these days, I read a boring science article or an underwhelming book. No middle-of-the-night crosswords, bridge, Words With Friends or checking out the morning newspapers. Eventually, I sleep. So, for my friends worried about Biden and his programs, and my friends worried about the insurrection of Jan. 6 and the resurrection of a former president, watch your alcohol, caffeine and nicotine intake in the evening, get into a regular bedtime routine, exercise during the day, and if you pop awake, read or do some other quiet activity until you feel sleepy. See a doctor if symptoms persist, or if you think you saw John Junior on the grassy knoll last week. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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letters The people spoke at the ballot box To the Editor: Voters nationwide sent a message to our elected leaders on Nov. 2, reminding them that they do, in fact, work for us, not the other way around. The pushback put a stop to multiple socialist agendas via the power of the vote. Here are important takeaways from the election: ■ Parents should have a voice in how their children are educated. The people spoke loud and clear. Just ask Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. Even former President Barack Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris, former U.S. Rep. Stacey Abrams of Georgia and President Biden himself couldn’t sway that vote. ■ We are not a racist nation, even though socialists keep pushing that false narrative. Now the focus has shifted to calling Black conservatives like Larry Elder and newly elected Winsome Sears the new faces of
from the soap and polish to oil, grease and gasoline — and eventually winds up in the wetlands and bays surrounding the Island. While there are eco-friendly biodegradable soaps, many are poisonous to marine life, often with a host of cancer-causing ingredients, from naphthalene to perchloroethylene and methylene chloride, and the phosphates that several soaps contain accelerate seaweed growth. When the seaweed reaches unnatural lengths, it breaks apart in the saltwater and rots, robbing fish of dissolved oxygen, creating dead zones in local bays. Washing your car by hand also wastes a great deal of water compared with professional car washes, which, as a matter of sound business practice, recycle 90 percent of their water. Additionally, the federal Clean Water Act of 1972 requires car washes to route wastewater to treatment facilities “designed to protect the environment,” according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency. To understand the scope of the issue at hand, we point to the Town of Hempstead, which has jurisdiction over the wetlands across Nassau’s South Shore, from Atlantic Beach in the west to Seaford in the east. That’s more than 180 miles of coastline and 17,000 acres of wetlands. Anything that seeps down through the storm drains winds up there. We would encourage any officials in charge of Nassau’s villages, towns and cities to think hard about following Garden
City’s example and prohibit residents from washing their cars in their driveways. The Town of Oyster Bay, which has jurisdiction over wetlands on both the north and south shores, addresses the issue on its Storm Water Runoff and Water Quality website, saying residents should wash their cars on their lawns rather than in their driveways. At least then the wastewater doesn’t wash into the streets, wetlands and bays, the logic goes. The State Department of Environmental Conservation offers the same suggestion. The trouble is, the practice is about as damaging to Long Island’s environment as washing your car in your driveway. Toxins slowly seep through the soil into groundwater and, eventually, the aquifers that we depend on for our drinking water. The aquifers are massive stores of underground water, deposited tens of millions of years ago. Without them we would need to import our drinking water from off Long Island, at an exorbitant cost. Bottom line: Wash your car at a professional car wash. You might pay a little more, but you’ll save yourself precious time, you’ll support an important local business, and you’ll help save the environment. Following this most recent election, we hope our government leaders from across Nassau County will double down on their efforts to protect the environment. We only have one Earth.
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f Election Day 2021 proved anything, it’s that Long Island voters shouldn’t be taken for granted. Nassau County Executive Laura Curran had been told by pollsters, Democratic Party leaders and pundits that she had this. She had attended all the civic meetings, street fairs and news conferences. She was approachable, engaged and empathic. And she spent four years raising campaign cash with the intent of spending all of it to ensure no surprises on election night. RONALD J. What she didn’t hear was the palpaROSENBERG ble anger of homeowners whose property assessments are still way out of whack. Nor could she avoid being on the same ballot with a Democratic district attorney candidate who co-sponsored the state’s bail bill that puts criminals back on the street before the arresting police can return to their patrol cars. For Curran, standing next to State Sen. Todd Kaminsky was more than minor collateral damage. Nor could she control what appears to
be an anemic county Democratic organization that is long on strategic analysis, but short on the ability to get its own supporters out to vote. The Republican candidate, Bruce Blakeman, astutely declined to follow the traditional tactics of a campaign “underdog.” He didn’t attack the incumbent. On any number of occasions, he told audiences that “she is undoubtedly a nice person.” But Blakeman would then methodically examine the policy failings of the Curran administration and let the facts speak for themselves. The voters heard, and responded. Blakeman had a crucial partner: Nassau GOP Chairman Joseph G. Cairo Jr. Quiet, reserved and a veteran of countless election nights, Cairo has the unique ability to intuitively spot political trends, recruit candidates who resonate with voters and, perhaps most important, pay attention to the grassroots mechanics of motivating voters to leave their homes on chilly, rainy November nights and head to the polls. While much coverage has been devoted to Blakeman’s victory, Cairo’s political professionalism reached beyond that single election-night win. North Hempstead,
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LETTERS white supremacy. Sears, elected as Virginia’s first female lieutenant governor of color, broke a glass ceiling, yet she didn’t receive a minute’s recognition by mainstream media. The only thing more pathetic was the Lincoln Project attempting to paint Virginia Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin as a white supremacist, and being dumb enough to hire a Black man holding a torch to represent its twisted, lying depiction. ■ The American people do not want to defund the police. That proposal went down in flames wherever it was on the ballot. ■ The people know that inflation has been caused by the Biden agenda. Just go shopping! ■ Hispanics living along the border voted overwhelmingly to secure our borders. ■ The people know that violent crime is on the rise. ■ The people see vaccine mandates being implemented throughout the nation while members of Congress exempt themselves from them. (Just like Obamacare!) ■ The majority of people do not want bail reform. ■ The people see the hypocrisy of the recent climate-change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, that more than 400 private planes flew in to, and Biden’s motorcade in Rome only days earlier had 85 vehicles in it.
a generational Democratic enclave, went Republican, too, with Jennifer DeSena beating Wayne Wink in the race for town supervisor — no small feat given Wink’s longstanding political presence in that township and overwhelming Democratic enrollment. Cairo also knows his political history. He saw how the Nassau County Republican Party of the late 1940s reinvented itself when Long island suburbs became home to Italians, Jews and Irish seeking a place for their families in communities across post-war Long Island. Those ethnicities became the next-generation Republicans. So, it’s no surprise that Cairo nominated Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip, a first-time candidate from Great Neck, to run against incumbent Democratic County Legislator Ellen Birnbaum in the 10th District, with Pilip declaring victory last Tuesday night. And just who is this person that Cairo entrusted with this race? Pilip was born in Ethiopia, moved to Israel at age 12, and became an Israel Defense Forces paratrooper and a gunsmith before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from the University of Haifa and
a master’s in diplomacy and security from Tel Aviv University. The ability to motivate Republican voters to make their voices heard has put two other Democratic Nassau legislative incumbents at risk, with Republican Paolo Pironi ahead of self-proclaimed “independent” Joshua Lafazan, and Republican Daniel Atler leading Democratic Legislator Arnold Drucker by several hundred votes. Absentee ballots may ultimately decide those races, but the tally thus far has certainly given the incumbents a shock. Like meteorologists, pollsters get paid whether they get the forecast right or not. Candidates should view Election Day 2021 as a cautionary tale, as the Nassau GOP wins have sent a shock wave from one end of the state to the other. The victory tally is reminding both parties that, regardless of the latest social media, computer-driven analytics, media endorsements and geo-fencing digital ads, there is no substitute for the type of grass-roots politics practiced by Cairo and the Nassau GOP. Ronald J. Rosenberg has been an attorney for 42 years, concentrating in commercial litigation and transactions, and real estate, municipal, zoning and land use law. He founded the Garden City law firm Rosenberg Calica & Birney in 1999.
FRAMEWORK by Christina Daly
We, the people, have spoken using the power of democracy by voting. I hope this is only the tip of the spear, and the momentum will carry through to the midterms next year. When the media lies, democracy dies. TOM O’CONNOR North Bellmore
A glance at NYC’s subway past To the Editor: On Oct. 27, 1904, the Interborough Rapid Transit company opened the first subway line. It ran nine miles uptown from City Hall on Manhattan’s East Side, across 42nd Street (today’s 42nd Street Shuttle) to Times Square, and uptown to 145th Street. It included 28 stations. More than 150,000 riders paid a 5-cent fare. The original BMT (Brooklyn Manhattan Rapid Transit — today’s B, D, J, M, N, Q, R and Z lines) and IRT (Interboro Rapid Transit — 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Franklin Avenue and Times Square shuttles) subway systems were constructed and managed by the private sector, with no government operating subsidies. Financial viability depended entirely on farebox revenues. These systems supported both the development and the economic growth of numerous neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens.
The Field of Honor at McVey Elementary School — East Meadow
In the 1930s, New York City began construction of the new IND (Independent Subway — today’s A, C, E, F and G lines). This new municipal system, subsidized by taxpayer dollars, provided direct competition to both the IRT and BMT. Municipal government forced them into economic ruin by denying them fare increases that would have provided access to additional revenues. Big Brother, just like the Godfa-
ther, eventually made them an offer they couldn’t refuse. The owners folded and sold out to City Hall. LARRY PENNER Great Neck Penner is transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.
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