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Where 5 have died, plans for a stoplight said. Blakeman, who also said that he asked the Nassau County A stretch of Peninsula Boule- Police Department to step up vard in Woodmere that has been enforcement in the area, listed the scene of five fatal vehicular the reasons the traffic light is accidents in less than 2½ years needed. “Number one, there is so is targeted for a trafmuch pedestrian fic signal at the traffic on Peninsula road’s intersection Boulevard, and it’s a with Edward Avefour-lane highway,” nue, an area that he said. “It’s not a could be nicknamed road, it’s a highway, “Death alley.” so I just made a The most recent determination that I fatality occurred last wanted traffic engiDec. 11, at the corner n e e r i n g t o t a ke where the traffic another look at it in light will be light of the fact that installed. Two vehiwe have so many cles collided that trucks that travel night, and Liel Namthat route, and we dar, 15, a sophomore just had an overat Torah Academy turned truck a mile for Girls In Far and a half away R o c k a w a y, w a s from where the trafBRuCE killed. fic signal is going to Nassau County BlAkEMAN go up. Traffic engiExecutive Br uce neering concurred County executive Blakeman said that with me that it was a comprehensive prudent to put a traftraffic study was conducted fic signal up.” recently and as a result, the Of the five people killed on county Department of Public Peninsula since November 2019, Works will install a traffic sig- two have been pedestrians. nal. It will cost roughly $120,000, Young Israel of Woodmere is and is expected to be operational located at the intersection of later this spring, county officials Continued on page 10
By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
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The toast of Inwood Lifelong resident Frank Parise was honored as the Inwood Civic Association Citizen of the Year last Saturday. From left were First Vice President Rosemarie Reo, board chair Michael Gliner, Patricia and Frank Parise, Treasurer Kathy Menella, Trustee Sheldon Soloway, Sergeant at Arms Barry DeGroot, Secretary Lori Hill and President David Hance. Story, Page 5.
State education department proposes private school rules By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
The New York State Education Department is continuing its push to have private schools — especially yeshivas that eschew secular education for more religious instruction — meet the state’s academic standards. Introducing what are being called “pathways” for nonpublic schools to show that they provide secular education equal to that offered by public schools, the state Board of Regents reviewed the
proposed new regulations during a virtual meeting on March 14. The reworked rules aim to settle a debate over the number of hours that religious schools, and especially Jewish ones, should devote to religious instruction instead of secular subjects such as English, math, science and social studies. “The good news is that there are multiple pathways for exemption,” said Richard Altabe, the lower school principal for the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach in Woodmere. He noted that accreditaContinued on page 11
umber one, there is so much pedestrian traffic on Peninsula Boulevard, and it’s a four-lane highway.