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Baymen beat Rocks for county V-ball title BY MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com

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Though East Rockaway dominated Oyster Bay twice in the regular season, the Baymen vanquished the Rocks when it counted to earn the Nassau Class C girls’ volleyball championship on Monday at LIU-Post. Oyster Bay ultimately prevailed over defending champion East Rockaway, 16-25, 25-23, 25-21, 16-25, 25-17, to win the title for the second time in three seasons. The victory flipped the script from the previous two meetings between the teams, in which the Rocks dominated six straight sets.

OYSTER BAY DEFEATED East Rockaway in five sets to capture the Nassau Class C girls’ volleyball title on Monday at LIU-Post.

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Can clams and oysters make a comeback in Oyster Bay? BY LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com

People engaged in shellfishing in Oyster Bay Harbor, commercially or otherwise, respect the opinions of Friends of the Bay, which advocates for the bay’s protection. But the nonprofit environmental organization has traditionally chosen not to take sides between commercial shellfishing company Frank M. Flower & Sons, which uses mechanical dredging, and independent shellfishers from the North Oyster Bay Baymen’s Association, who believe that dredging damages the bay. The science is mixed on the practice,

FOB members say, so they’d like to stay out of it. Instead, the organization is focusing on the big picture — and perhaps not a moment too soon. After several meetings with Town of Oyster Bay officials, FOB has written an open letter to the community, and shared it with the Herald (see box, Page 11), outlining strategies to keep the bay, which is suffering from a declining shellfish population, viable. “When we tell people there are almost no oysters left in Oyster Bay, and that the oysters at the Oyster Festival two years ago had to be imported from Con-

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President, NOBBA necticut by the Rotary Club, people looked stunned,” Bill Bleyer, FOB’s president, said. “So we said we have to stop talking to ourselves and tell the public what’s going on.” Billy Painter, president of NOBBA, said he believes the situation in Oyster Bay Harbor is

dire. He said he knows of only two baymen who currently work there. The rest fish in the Long Island Sound in Glen Cove. In the letter, FOB recommends that the town create a bay management plan with an advisory committee that would include “representatives from user groups, environmental organizations and experts in bay

management and water-based industries.” In an email to the Herald, town representatives wrote that its Department of Environmental Resources has created a Water Resources Guidance Document, which is similar to a bay management plan. Discussed with environmentalists, includCONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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A MODEL TRAIN show is coming to Hicksville Community Center next weekend.

Train show to benefit Railroad Museum Trainville Hobby Depot will host a Model Train Show on Nov 20 and 21, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hicksville Community Center, located at 28 West Carl Street in Hicksville. The Model Train Show includes operating model layouts coordinated by Trainville Hobby Depot. Donations are being accepted at the exhibit to

support the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum. Admission is $5; children ages 4-11 years old are $3, and entry for children under the age of 4 is free. For further information, visit trainville.com or call (516) 433-4444.

Suozzi ‘seriously considering’ governor run state, I’ve got to give up what is a great opportunity for me to serve,” Suozzi said. “It’s a big decision for me.” Rep. Tom Suozzi told reporters in a During the news conference, he also Zoom news conference last week that he addressed the results of the Nov. 2 elecis “seriously considering” running for tion, which saw a lot of losses for Demogovernor of New York state next year, crats in both state and local elections. “I and will make a decision by the end of believe very strongly in the idea that the month. races are cyclical. When a president of a “I’d love to be governor of New York certain party gets elected, the other state,” Suozzi said, “and I party does well the next think I have a great record year,” he said. “I think this of accomplishment. I think year was exacerbated I’d be great at the job, and I because everyone is exhausthave a vision for New York. I ed from the Trump years know what needs to be and they were looking fordone.” ward to some stability and One of his goals, he said, normalcy in governing.” would be to find ways to When asked if he is conmake the state more attraccerned about losing his Contive for people to live in, pargressional seat in the midticularly when it comes to terms, he said, “Every DemTom Suozzi tax relief. He said he will sit ocrat in the country should with his team and advisors be concerned right now. and see what his chances are. Unless we fight back against this far left “I have to decide whether I think I message and deliver for people, everycan win or not,” Suozzi said. body should be worried about it.” The general election, he said, would Suozzi said he believes that people not be a problem. “But winning the pri- want to see less talk, less extremism and mary is not going to be easy.” more action. Additionally, Suozzi said, he has to “The bottom line is, we have to be decide if he wants to give up his current willing to stand up to the far left, job, in which he has developed some because the message that they are giving strong relationships with colleagues in from the Democratic socialist wing of the U.S. House of Representatives on the Democratic party is destroying the both sides of the aisle. party,” he said. “It’s not what the Ameri“If I run for governor of New York can people want.”

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THE VIEW OF Oyster Bay Harbor from Theodore Roosevelt Park is stunning for visitors, but for shellfishers it is a source of frustration. Although they were once plentiful, there are now very few oysters or clams in the harbor.

NOBBA supports idea of Oyster Bay Harbor sanctuary CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE ing members of FOB, prior to being drawn up, it is currently in draft form. The document includes a framework for implementing programs to improve conditions in the Oyster Bay Harbor-Cold Spring Harbor complex. Once the town is ready to implement the strategies outlined in the document, the email stated, an advisory committee will be created. Flower’s lease for 1,500 acres in Oyster Bay Harbor expires in 2024, and the town has not yet agreed to renew it. For now, the town has said it would allow 150 acres outside Flower’s leased area to be harvested by commercial companies. There are no plans for Flower’s acreage. FOB would like to see a large portion of the harbor become a sanctuary, with shellfishing prohibited. But the organization would leave the decision on exactly how large that area would be to the town’s consultants. The town is asking that new leaseholders use “off-bottom” aquaculture — growing shellfish in a bag or cages suspended off the bay bottom — which FOB supports. One company is currently under consideration. Even so, recreational and commercial shellfish license holders would be able to

use rakes in certified areas, said Barry Lamb, a past president of FOB and the chair of its conservation committee. “It’s important to point out that the entire bay is open to some kind of harvest at this point other than areas that are closed due to water quality,” Lamb said. “At no point in its history has any portion of the bay been managed for habitat and ecological services and put aside for that reason.” Flower, who planted clams and oyster seeds annually for years, stopped doing so in 2019, five years before its lease was set to expire, and also shut down its hatchery. The reason given, Bleyer said, was the company was uncertain that its lease would be renewed, and maintained that there were issues with predators. There is a three-year cycle from seeding clams to harvest, and two to three years for oysters. “Nothing is five years,” Bleyer said. “. . . [Flower] stopped [seeding], claiming it was half predator issues and half uncertainty over the lease, but they also said there were areas where there weren’t much of a predator problem. So for them to shut down the hatchery five years before the lease expired and not do any seeding at all sent up a red flag for us.” Heather Johnson, FOB’s executive

director, said there is no evidence that there are predators. James Camarano, Flower’s attorney, could not be reached by press time. Included in FOB’s letter is a suggestion that those receiving a town license for shellfishing be required to provide clam and or oyster seeds annually to be planted in a designated sanctuary or conservation management area. There are two conservation areas, one in Oyster Bay and the other in Cold Spring Harbor. The one in Cold Spring Harbor has a spawner sanctuary. Johnson said that FOB would like to see more spawner sanctuaries. FOB supports a planned town shellfish recycling program set to begin in 2022, also mentioned in the letter. The town is working on coordinating the details, which include finding space to cure the shells and managing a collection process. “Wetlands restoration and the creation of oyster reefs are needed to protect existing wetlands and reduce shore erosion,” FOB’s letter stated. “A town shell-recycling program to retrieve shells from restaurants should be the first step toward the creation of these oyster reefs.” Using the recycled shells would help return unproductive bottom land to viable oyster habitat by providing a home for seed oysters, FOB said.

Bob Wemyss, NOBBA’s secretary, was surprised by the letter. “We’ve been lobbying Friends of the Bay to ask the Army Corps of Engineers to require a water quality certification since 2013,” he said. “If they stood up on that issue a long time ago, [a depleted harbor] could have been resolved years ago.” Wemyss said he would like to see a permanent sanctuary and rotational management, similar to the way farmers rotate crops. “The issue of what to do with Flower’s lease, should it not be renewed, should be the subject of a comprehensive shellfish management plan,” Wemyss said, “and no new use of aquaculture on that land should be approved until the management plan is adopted.” Painter would also like to see more of the bay become a sanctuary. And he, too, supports a bay management plan, which he said NOBBA has asked for for a long time. “It would decide where to put the sanctuaries, and include a rotational plan — work one area for a year, and then close it for three to four years,” Painter said. “We’ve never had that in our harbor. If you take too much, sooner or later it won’t be there anymore. I know the town looks at us as a commercial entity, but we are also stewards of the harbor.”

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LUCA QUERNI, LEFT, a second grader and Will Tiberius, who is in fifth grade, asked Army Reserves veteran Fred Uhl a few questions about his service, what the hardest part of training was and what message he would like to leave for future generations.

THE SECOND GRADERS in Dani Schatz’s class colored the drawing of a veteran, while the fifth graders in Kelly Price’s class wrote notes of gratitude to the veterans.

Learning about service to country from a vet was very hard.” Frank Herlihy, who served in the Navy, said the hardest part of training was survival school. “You’re out in the woods alone and have to learn how to survive off the land,” he told students. “It taught me a lot about surviving in the wilderness.” Joe Borruso, from the Coast Guard, said his experiences changed him, from a boy to a man. And Robert Goodyear, who served in Vietnam in the Army said that

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being overseas was the hardest thing he had ever done. “Coming home was the highlight of my life,” he said. The fifth and second graders also presented veterans with homemade thank you letters and cards that they wrote together. For some, it was the first opportunity to share their gratitude for the veteran’s service. Before the children left, Robert Goodyear, who served in the Army, shared one last thought. “The message I would like to leave future generations is that freedom comes at a price, we don’t count the blessings we have,” he said. “We should appreciate every day, appreciate this country and the people who served this country.”

U.S. ARMY SERGEANT Robert Goodyear gave a fist bump to Isabella Bartolotto, a fifth grader at Bayville Intermediate School.

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A group of veterans were invited to an assembly at Locust Valley Intermediate School on Wednesday for a pre Veteran’s Day celebration. Students in the fifth and second grade asked the veterans a variety of questions, focusing on their service. Army veteran Jack McKie told students that the hardest part of training was not being home. “You’re in a strange place and you only have each other to rely on,” he said. “Being away from my family

I’ve always been a good sport , but never, ever a natural (or even unnatural) athlete. As a k9d I may have had athlete’s foot, but never boasted the foot (or arm) of an athlete. Even as a parent, I could only (accurately) announce that my children already exceeded my athletic prowess the day they learned to walk. Indeed my four kids (and wife) between them, eventually excelled in basketball, field hockey, ice hockey, flag football, dodgeball, volleyball, tennis, swimming, running, boogieboarding, ice skating, skateboarding and even r ugby. Meanwhile, I pursued the “contact” sports of chess, debating and politics. A c t u a l l y, i n h i g h school, I did, briefly, (try to) play soccer, having previously only chalon lenged my sister to a g ame where I would “sock her.” Living in Manhattan, we practiced in Central Park where we trained by running through the park which, in the 1960s, helped us outrun the muggers. (Itself a sports of sorts). Eventually, I was kicked off (pun intended) the team for allowing a 200-pound-plus monster to get around rather than through my 101-pound frame and score three (or maybe it was four) times. Anyway, that was it for me and soccer until this past year when our 10-year-old grandson, Noah, emerged as a soccer star and invited me to watch him and his team play. From the sidelines (so close to the field that I spent most of the game praying the ball wouldn’t come near me) I sat in a beach chair (from which getting up was yet another sport unto itself) along with his parents, his siblings, Eliana and Ezra, his nana and his Waldman grandparents. We were joined by a variety of parents (and grandparents) many of whom, based on the directions, instructions, orders, commands, guidance and directives hurled onto the field, must have been either a

retired soccer coach or a Marine drill sergeant. Anyway, the kids joyfully ignored the advice, as their reams with such p.c. names as Rockets, Dragons, Earthyquake and Hurricane, took the field with enthusiasm. Our Noah’s team was called Force, which I at first thought meant all members were “forced” to join, but I soon learned that each boy and girl loved being part of the team and loved playing the game. I watched as Noah learned sportsmanship, including caring for, and about, injured players on both team. I Watched him develop confidence and an increasingly positive self-image. Whether, successfully playing defense or offense or being a goalie (and wearing the converted green goalie gloves) he was clearly learning trust in oldman his teammates, faith in himself, self-reliance and self-control. With every game, he was demonstrating an understanding of teamwork and the courage to run with the ball and charge ahead. He was mastering the skill of strategy and decision-making; of knowing when to pass and when to shoot, when to kick and when to throw; and experiencing the thrill of being the star as well as the satisfaction of letting the next guy (or gal) shine. Watching him race back and forth was watching a little boy being transformed into a young man; watching someone realize that he was part of an effort bigger than himself as others relied on him to share his individuality with the group as the group worked collectively to highlight his individuality. Yup, on that soccer field, our Noah was not only learning, he was teaching: teaching that team sports played right, is more than playing, it’s a serious lesson in character development and good choices, and that all that running towards a goal is part of achieving the greater goal of making great kids into great people.

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Thursday, Nov. 18 Movie: An Unfinished Life

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Einar is a crusty old rancher who does what he can to hold onto his Wyoming ranch. It’s been a struggle for years; his son was killed in a car crash, his wife left him, and his longtime friend and helper, Mitch was recently mauled by a bear. Now, Einar has to care for Mitch and help him recover. Jean and her daughter, Griff, have to leave Jean’s current abusive boyfriend. The only place they can go is the ranch of Griff’s grandfather, Einar, who only learns of his granddaughter’s existence upon their arrival. Watch “An Unfinished Life” at 2 p.m. at the Locust Valley Library. Additional showing at 6:30 p.m.

Gold Coast Public Library Annex, 50 Railroad Ave., Glen Head, 2 to 4 p.m. Watch “Mona” (1986) at the library. Bob Hoskins received an Oscar nomination for his notso-tough-guy portrayal of George, recently released from prison and hired by a sinister mob boss (Michael Caine) to chauffeur a call girl between high-paying clients.

Saturday, Nov. 13 Computer Animation Workshop For Grades 6-12. An instructor from Sharper Training Solutions will teach attendees how to create web-based computer animation. In this hands-on workshop beginning at 11 a.m., create and edit animated GIFs, stick figures and more. Laptops will be provided, but if you would like to save your work, bring an external flash drive. Event will take place in the annex of Gold Coast Public Library. Register online at goldcoastlibrary.org.

Sunday, Nov. 14 Sea Cliff Second Sundays Get your holiday shopping kick started; discover one-of-a-kind finds from vendors and local stores, while enjoying live music. Also, the Sea Cliff Arts Council is also accepting donations for non-perishable food for Mutual Concerns from 1 to 4 p.m. Village Green, Sea Cliff.

Britton Concert 2021 Matthew Fishteyn is a classicallytrained pianist with an intimate passion for music. Hours spent meticulously adding and subtracting become an hour of a truly unforgettable musical journey, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Locust Valley Library. Matthew’s style is a unique blend of American and other world cultures. Masks are required for everyone attending the concert. No reserved seating; seating is limited, so get there early.

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Monday, Nov. 15 Build Your Business with Social Media Review the five most popular social media networks and the benefits of using each; how other businesses are using social media and how to determine which networks are right for your business; what kind of content to create and post; how to tell if content is working and why social media and email marking must be used together. Register online at bayvillefreelibrary.org to receive the Zoom link. On Monday evenings at 7:00 p.m., Oct. 18 through Nov. 29, these virtual workshops for business owners and others interested in starting a new business are presented by SCORE, Long Island, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping small businesses get off the ground, grow and achieve their goals through education and mentorship.

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In the basement of The First Baptist Church, located at 7 Continental Place, Glen Cove, North Shore Soup Kitchem will resume serving those in need for take-out hot meals and sandwiches temporarily. Tuesdays and Thursdays between noon and 1 p.m.

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Woman’s Club of Glen Cove monthly luncheon At the scenic Sea Cliff Yacht Club, 42 The Boulevard, in Sea Cliff, from approximately 11.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m., attendees can enjoy a luncheon with entertainment for $35 per person. This month, Glen Cove’s very own Chef Janine from The View Grill, will hold a

Explore far-off places and learn about the people who live there, while trying art techniques developed by local artists and experimenting with Crayola products. Beginning at 4 p.m. at the Glen Cove Library, go to Oaxaca, Mexico and learn the story of the alebrije dream and how it unleashed a whole new art form. For grades 2 to 5; registration can be completed online at glencovelibrary.org.

The Glen Cove Board of Education will meet next on Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. The Oyster Bay Town Board will meet on Nov. 16, at 10 a.m. The Sea Cliff Village Board of Trustees will meet on Dec. 9, at 6 p.m. in Village Hall. The North Shore Board of Education will meet next on Nov. 18 at 7:45 p.m. The Locust Valley Board of Education will meet on Nov. 16.

Psychic and magician Ron Cain teaches the seven steps needed to develop your psychic ability. Learn about extrasensory perception, clairvoyance and telepathy. Study palmistry and the meaning behind your sun sign, your Chinese animal sign, and your totem animal. Attendees are encouraged to share their ideas and experiences. Simple meditation and relaxation techniques will be taught. This event will take place via zoom; registration can be completed at glencovelibrary.org.

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Seven games into what was shaping up as a statement/turnaround season, the Locust Valley boys’ soccer team slammed into a reality check. Eventual Nassau Conference BC champion Cold Spring Harbor sent the visiting Falcons – who had entered the teams’ Sept. 30 meeting as surprise BC leaders at 4-1-1 – spiraling earthward with a 5-2 setback. For the first time all autumn, a chastened Locust Valley – still within earshot of echoes from its 0-9 spring – felt it had been simply overmatched. “That game challenged us because we felt like we just couldn’t win,” said longtime coach Joe Lee. “It made us say, ‘Where are we? Can we get back?’ We knew after Cold Spring Harbor that, if we wanted to compete, we’d have to be better on defense. So we moved some key pieces around.” When the teams met again a month later for higher stakes, it was the reconfigured Falcons doing the flummoxing. With senior Jack Ginsberg – en route to his first All-County nod – moved from midfield to center back, Locust Valley would take 2-1 double-overtime revenge against the Seahawks in the Nassau Class B final Oct. 28, netting the Falcons (6-4-2 BC) their first county title. “The boys saw that game as, ‘We need to get them back,’ which made it more special,” said Lee, whose club boasted BC’s top offense scoring 2.16 goals per game. “Switching Jack to defense made us stronger in the back, and allowed our offense to grow.” Doubts regarding the return of junior Brandon Villanueva – sidelined in spring by injury (back) – did not have much time to fester. The Locust Valley forward – who joined Ginsberg on the All-County roster along with teammate Johnny Guillen (sophomore) – had a hat trick in a 4-2 season-opening win at home against Oyster Bay. “Very few players I’ve coached have the natural ability Brandon has,” Lee said of the third year-starter whose 16 points led all BC scorers (tied), and whose 10 goals ranked second in league. “When he got that hat trick right off the bat, and we won, it made us think this season could be special. It was very emotional for the team. The frustrations from the past year, we were able to release that. Our hopes were coming to fruition.” Guillen finished fourth in league with six goals, while senior forward Charles Jacobs – who assisted on Villanueva’s titleclinching tally against CSH – had four goals for Locust Valley. Boding well for the Falcons’ already active hopes of a title defense, young defenders Daniel Greene and Daniel Ceja, and fellow sophomore William Guillen (midfielder) – all second-year starters – earned All-Conference honors this fall, while junior goalkeeper Miklos Argyelan had 48 saves as a first-year starter. “We’re bringing back a core of seven starters,” Lee said. “Last year was a building season, and this season the chemistry came together. Now that players see we can be the best, I think there’s a shift in our thinking. We know nothing’s automatic; we’ll always have to work. But we won’t be underdogs next year.”

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Local seniors have been learning about local history on private bus tours of the area led by for mer Sea Cliff Mayor Ed Lieberman, who tells the stories of a number of historical landmarks. The Oyster Bay, Sag amore Hill Teddy Roosevelt Bus Tour is the most frequent of a number of tours focusing on different areas of the community and their past. On this tour, Lieberman highlights President Theodore Roosevelt’s life and related landmarks. “I have a detailed conversation about Teddy Roosevelt’s life — his family, his life and presidency,” Lieberman said. “The tour leads us to Sagamore Hill, and then, in the interim, we go through the North Shore areas and I lay out the historic significance of the villages we pass through.” Sagamore Hill was the primary residence of Roosevelt and his wife, Edith, from 1886 until they died, the former president in 1919 and Edith in 1948. Another bus tour goes along Route 25A in Nor thpor t, and Lieber man details George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring, a network of Revolutionary War spies who were active in Setauket and Oyster Bay. “I came up with the idea for the tours as a way to fill my time up between my practice and not being the mayor anymore,” said Lieberman, who is an attorney. “It started out because I wanted to do a walking tour of the Village of Sea Cliff, the main street, and explain the [significance] of the different buildings and parks in the area.” The seniors who take the tours are residents of the Atria in Glen Cove. “The residents have been enjoying learning from Ed. He really brightens their day,” said Diane Ziems, the facility’s executive director. “They’re learning something about their community. My residents ask a lot of questions, and find he adds a lot of humor to the information and the tour. Ed truly is a wealth of knowledge.” Now, Lieberman says, the seniors are filling the bus each time there’s a new tour, and he is taking second and third trips to some locations so the people

who didn’t get on the first tour can see what they missed. On Oct. 20, Lieberman took the bus on the Teddy Roosevelt tour again, with a second group of Atria residents. “It was really just something that I wanted to fill my time with and benefit the seniors,” Lieberman said. “I also try to get them interested in some of the surrounding history that we have in our immediate areas here.” His next tour is scheduled for Friday, on which he will partner with an organization called the Mutual Concerns Committee, and explore historic sites in Roslyn and Great neck with a different group of seniors, from Sea Cliff and Glen Head. Mutual Concerns is a grassroots group that formed 42 years ago to meet some pressing needs of residents of the North Shore School District. The organization hosts a senior lunch every Tuesday, providing hot meals and fun activities for the community’s seniors. The group agreed to collaborate with Lieberman on the bus tours in order to get more seniors involved who weren’t Atria residents. “I was glad Ed came to me — I thought it was a good idea,” said Peggie Como, president of Mutual Concerns. “He’s a big history buff. He just knows so much about the origins of our community.” Another benefit of the tours, according to Como, is the opportunity they offer less-than-mobile seniors, who can’t get out much, to enjoy the historic tours alongside their neighbors. “We have about 20 to 30 seniors in our lunch program, and they love to have different things to do,” Como said. “[The tours] get them out of the house and get them to socialize, especially after being cooped up inside for so many months.” “I also give talks about the law and the history of law in group discussions at the Atria, to get the seniors intellectually motivated,” Lieberman said. “The bus tour idea came from those talks; it was something that I always wanted to do.” Lieberman is looking to expand the tours to surrounding communities. The current tours aren’t just limited to Atria residents. Anyone who is interested can call Como at (516) 675-7239.

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■ The amount of acreage that the town will make available for commercial shellfish harvesting from the bay bottom should be reduced under a new licensing plan to be implemented when the current lease expires in 2024. ■ The town should increase the number and size of shellfish sanctuaries where no commercial or recreational harvesting is allowed. Protected acreage must be of sufficient size and quality to provide the ecological benefits of a healthy marine ecosystem – water filtration, reproduction to seed the rest of

the bay, erosion control, and food and habitat for other species.

tat by providing a home for seed oysters.

■ The number of juvenile shellfish seeded into the bays by the town and shellfish growing license-holders needs to be increased. The quantity of seed should be based on the size of the area licensed.

■ Creation of a comprehensive plan for managing the bay must be a top priority. Friends of the Bay has encouraged the town to create a bay management plan with an advisory committee of representatives from user groups, environmental org anizations, and experts in bay management and waterbased industries.

■ “Off-bottom aquaculture” (shellfish cultivation in bags or cages) must be allowed and encouraged to preserve Oyster Bay’s shellfish legacy without damaging the bay bottom. ■ Any company or individual that receives a town license to cultivate shellfish should be required to provide seed to the town for planting in a designated sanctuary or conservation management area in Oyster Bay or Cold Spring Harbor in any year that they harvest. ■ Wetlands restoration and the creation of oyster reefs are needed to protect existing wetlands and reduce shore erosion. A town shell-recycling program to retrieve shells from restaurants should be the first step toward the creation of these oyster reefs. Recycled shells can help return unproductive bottom land to viable oyster habi-

While COVID-19 has had an impact on the number of shellfish harvested because demand dwindled, the quantity harvested as reflected in state landing reports has declined over many years, despite some fluctuation. The state Department of Environmental Conservation tracks shellfish harvests and t h e i r re p o r t s s u g g e s t t h at t h e s e resources are in danger. But oyster and possibly clam harvests have plummeted in recent years – even allowing for the decline in restaurant purchases during the COVID-impacted 2020 season. The state reports show that oyster harvests peaked in 2013 and have trended downwards since, while clam harvests have fallen steadily since 2016 except for a slight rise in 2019. A major revelation and warning sign

was the fact that two years ago, for the first time, oysters served at the Oyster Festival had to be imported from Connecticut rather than harvested from Oyster Bay. The cause of the decline is likely a combination of harvesting beyond sustainable levels; reduced seeding of juvenile shellfish; warming water from climate change, which makes the water more acidic and dissolves the calcium in shells; stormwater runoff that carries oil, sediments and other pollutants into the harbors; predators and disease. Whatever the cause, the trend is alarming. And as the town drafts new rules and issues new licenses for continued shellfish cultivation, it is critical that the public be aware of this trend and the steps that must be taken to reverse it. A viable shellfishing industry with increased oyster and clam populations in Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor will help improve the water quality and combat the harmful algal blooms that have plagued the region’s waterways, now including Cold Spring Harbor. To read the entire Friends of the Bay statement, including more details on the current situation and the town’s plans, go to friendsofthebay.org.

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Many people in the Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor area don’t know that our shellfish population, particularly our namesake oysters, has suffered a serious decline. And fewer oysters and clams, which filter the water, means dirtier water and a threat to the livelihood of commercial harvesters and the enjoyment of recreational users. For the shellfish population to become sustainable for the long run, Friends of the Bay believe several steps should be taken. The Town of Oyster Bay has been very receptive to our suggestions, outlined below, and had already planned to implement many of them.

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What I lack in standard housekeeping in There are the announcements when the real world, I more than make up in my employers offered our family members their tidy digital world – filing documents in fold- latest jobs, and the secondary reflections ers in a laptop, deleting anything in company that admit a little fear mixed in with the email that is irrelevant and in the case of my excitement of such news. And then there is the back and forth, sensmartphone, reviewing texts to see what I can tence after sentence that resolves a thorny eliminate and what words I wish to keep. There are not many strings of texts that I problem, language meant to mend a broken heart or phrases to bridge two maintain, but I notice a pattern lives together. – I am reluctant to remove any I fully understand that facetext that expresses love or supto-face communications or an port, even if they date back to old school phone call allow for 2017. subtlety with voices that can So there I am, when the render and translate feelings. moment permits, removing But there’s something to be those interspersed texts about said for the text message, and what to eat for dinner or a pickit’s not just the instantaneous up needed at the library, while gratification. Taken in their leaving those mentions that entirety, these texts document suggest, “Take care and be careauren ev our years with short lines, ful today” or “Thinking of you, abbreviations and emojis how is everything?” amounting to longer, deeper But I have also noticed that because every text is dated and time- stories of how we live and lived. stamped, there is a history, a personal diary, right under my thumbs. A contributing writer to the Herald since 2012, Lauren Lev is an East Meadow resident For example, there were the series of texts I received when I alerted friends and and a direct marketing/advertising execufamily that my mother died: brief, heartfelt tive who teaches marketing fundamentals as recollections that were an electronic eulogy, well as advertising and marketing communisince there were no other tributes to be had cations courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology and SUNY Old Westbury. under Covid.

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by the Rocks, the Baymen prevailed in five, capping a back-and-forth affair. “I think throughout the year we really worked with a battle mentality, a focus-to-win mentality, and I think we came in tonight with that,” East Rockaway coach Ksenia Brito said. “But for two weeks we’ve been saying we’re not going to underestimate Oyster Bay. We knew what to expect, but we just made way too many errors tonight against them.” Iles lauded outside hitters Katherine Jennette and Kaitlyn Kelly for providing timely points throughout the match. Taylor Hall quarterbacks the offense as the setter, while Angelina Pavlovik and Themie Voumvorakis work the middle. Libero Kaitlyn Aasheim sparked the defense. Oyster Bay (7-8) will return to Post on Saturday to face Mattituck in the Long Island Class C championship at noon. “It’s so exciting, because coming in, you had it in your head, we lost to them twice,” Iles said. “We always talk about how it’s hard to beat a team three times, so that was on our side a little bit, too, but definitely they pulled it all together and made it happen.”

The Bayville Fire Company was joined by local first responders and elected leaders to commission the newest addition to the department’s ambulance fleet. During the ceremony, leaders of the Bayville Volunteer Fire Company were presented with a $100,000 check, symbolic of the Nassau County Community Revitalization Program grant Nassau Legislator Josh Lafazan secured toward the ambulance’s purchase.

“Legislator Lafazan asked how he could help support the Bayville Fire Company and the residents we serve. We let him know the fire company was looking to replace our current aging ambulance,” Chief Joe Rogers said. “This ambulance will significantly assist the members of the Bayville Fire Company to respond to the residents of Bayville, Centre Island and Mill Neck residents for years to come.”

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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.

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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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Think green — clean your vehicle at a car wash

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ravo to New York state voters for overwhelmingly passing a ballot referendum last week adding wording to the New York Constitution’s Bill of Rights guaranteeing the right to clean water, air and a healthful environment. The measure passed with nearly 70 percent of the vote. Some 1.9 million New Yorkers voted for it, while roughly 860,000 voted against it. Clearly, New Yorkers were signaling that, yes, they care about the environment, and yes, they would like to protect it. Here’s the challenge: It’s one thing to put to paper that you care about the environment. It’s another thing entirely to act, day in and day out, in a manner that actually protects the environment. Each of our daily actions — many of them seemingly small — can either contribute to protecting our environment or potentially do irrevocable harm. Take washing your car, for example. How you wash it can have a profound effect on the environment, particularly the wetlands that hug Long Island’s shores. Here we must pause and offer high praise to the Village of Garden City, which is among the few local municipalities to prohibit residents from cleaning their cars on public streets. It’s a critical local ordinance. Washing your car in your driveway damages the environment, because everything that is washed from it streams into the storm drains — from the soap and polish to

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 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

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 cit-

ies 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 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. 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

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.

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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. 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

The Field of Honor at McVey Elementary School — East Meadow 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 Godfather, 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

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CORRECTION In re: “Mask mandate divides Locust Valley School District” [Sept. 21-27], when Marisa Friedrich said during the public session at a Locust Valley School Board meeting that a child’s right to breath is secondary at best, she was referring to what she believes the LVCSD thinks, not what she believes.

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