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Giving a kidney to a veteran Assemblyman Ari Brown helps a Purple Heart honoree I’m 55, which is not that old, but for kidney donation it is.” According to the National Before the State Legislature Institute on Aging, one of every returned to session this month, three people who donate an Assemblyman Ari Brown used organ is over age 50. All Brown knew about the his relatively free time in December to help a man in recipient of his kidney was need, donating one of his kid- that he had been wounded in neys to a Purple Heart-awarded action and honored with a Purveteran. ple Heart. The two A blood donor men did not meet for over 30 years, before the surgery. Brown, 55, who is After the operaalso the deputy tion, which takes mayor of Cedarabout four hours, hurst, underwent a according to the kidney transplant kidney foundation, Dec. 11 with the Brown was up and recipient at North walking, as if nothShore University ing happened, he Hospital in recalled. Manhasset. “I was walking Brown had around, and they undergone a range said, ‘Wow, this guy of medical tests in is already walkARi BROwN recent years, ing?’” he said. “I Kidney donor re q u i re d by t h e walked the whole National Kidney hospital.” He was Fo u n d at i o n , t o d e t e r m i n e discharged 36 hours later. whether he was a suitable Renewal, a nonprofit organidonor. He was approved last zation dedicated to helping peoyear, and was matched with a ple with kidney disease, which patient. worked behind the scenes to “I was told I was one of the match the two men, told Brown oldest live donors,” he said. that they would ar range a “Usually there are people who meeting in the future, which he are in their 20s, 30s or 40s, but
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Honoring Dr. King’s legacy Rabbi Marc Disick and Cantor Galina Makaveyev, of Temple Israel of Lawrence, took part in the MLK Day of Service on Monday. Story, more photos, Page 5.
Woodmere Club owners sue villages They claim special district illegally limited their plans By HERNESTO GALDAMEZ hgaldamez@liherald.com
Woodmere Club owners Efrem Gerszberg and Robert Weiss have filed a lawsuit against the villages of Lawrence and Woodsburgh, seeking $65 million in damages — money they claim they have lost because of the limitations the Coastal Conservation District imposed on their plan to develop the club land, according to the suit. The district was created in 2020 to limit the developers’ plan to build homes on the club property, which straddles three municipalities — Lawrence, Woodsburgh and Woodmere, a hamlet in the Town of Hempstead.
According to the lawsuit, filed in federal court on Sept. 20 but just recently sent to the Herald, the owners are seeking to have the district judged “null,” “void” and “unenforceable,” and are asking for $25 million in damages from Lawrence and $40 million from Woodsburgh. Gerszberg and Weiss purchased the club property in 2017, and in 2019 proposed the construction of 284 single-family homes on it — 247 in Woodmere, 24 in Woodsburgh and 13 in Lawrence, to be called Willow View Estates — a plan that was met with opposition from area residents and local elected officials. The Coastal Conservation District, created by Continued on page 9
n assemblyperson, probably a little more notoriety, will add something … ‘If Ari can do it, I can do it.’
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