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All variances granted for Sunrise facility Pearsall said. “It will be a very different Atlantic Avenue in a few years.” Pearsall attended the The Town of Hempstead January hearing, and voiced her Board of Zoning Appeals recent- c o n c e r n s a b o u t p o s s i b l e ly notified Oceanside residents increased traffic. At the hearing, living near the site of the pro- traf fic and parking expert posed three-story Sunrise Assist- Andrew Villari, of Stonefield ed Living facility, along Atlantic Engineering & Design, argued and Terrell avenues, that all of that there would not be a signifithe development’s proposed vari- cant increase in traffic because ances had been few of the residents granted. The deciwould drive. sion came as a Another resident, shocking disappointJoyce Kane, said that ment for many resithe height of the dents, after a threebuilding was her hour back-and-forth main concern, between them and because it would the Sunrise team at block the sunlight a BZA hearing on that reaches her Jan. 12. on Brothers JANeT peARsAll home The proposed Court — a cul-de-sac S u n r i s e f a c i l i t y, Oceanside off Silver Lane, right planned for a behind the build4,500-square-foot vacant lot along ing’s proposed location. Kane Atlantic Avenue, near Detective signed a Change.org petition, Luis Alvarez Park, will be 49 feet along with 474 others, urging the tall when it is completed, have 85 BZA to reject the variances. “I living units and will require 52 am directly behind this building. parking spots. All of variances I am going to lose the afternoon for the facility were approved sunlight,” she said. “And I’m unanimously by the BZA. The going to be fighting for parking board’s decision was announced as if I was in Queens.” in a letter to the community that Kane said she did not believe went out on Feb. 16. the 52 parking spots would “It’s a major disappointment,” Oceanside resident Janet Continued on page 14
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A feathered head Island Park Library Board President Jessica Koenig made a new friend during the Wonderful World of Parrots event at the library on Feb. 24. More photos, Page 4.
Island Park photographer is finally living out her dreams By KepHeRD DANiel kdaniel@liherald.com
Caroline Bert, of Island Park, discovered her passion for photography as a student at Oceanside High School, from which she graduated in 2012. Her work has been on display at several exhibits, including at the Island Park Library as well as in Oceanside, on Town of Hempstead calendars and at the Alfred Van Loen gallery at the South
Huntington Library. “I started photography in high school, and stuck with it ever since,” Bert, 27, said. “I was really passionate about it, and was always really excited with all the possibilities of photography, and the ways I could express myself or preserve moments in time. I had a dual passion growing up, and they were both artrelated. I was a dancer and a photographer, and I didn’t know what I was going to choose. And
then I wound up photographing dancers, and photographing anything in motion, and just delved into photography more.” She studied photography in college as well, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts and, last year, a master’s in photography from LIU Post. “As I got into college, I started to explore cameraless photography,” Bert said, and … really got into the mechanics of Continued on page 16
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t will be a very different Atlantic Avenue in a few years.