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NOVEMBER 11 - 17, 2021
‘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
By ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com
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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
linics like this one are important ... before health issues become health care emergencies.