Hurricane Sandy caused immeasurable grief and destruction nearly 13 years ago. That devastation, however, has spurred a few positives.
By KEPHERD DANIEl kdaniel@liherald.com
Arm bars, suplexes and figure-four leg locks were on full display at the Michael Fischer Memorial Fundraiser, a professional wrestling event at American Legion Post 246 in Baldwin last Saturday.
The event was created with the help of Oceanside resident Sean Wachter to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the fight against cancer, and as a tribute to Wachter’s friend Fischer, 38, a member of the Island Park Fire Department who lost his life last summer in a line-ofduty death.
Fischer, who was known as Fish, suffered cardiac arrest at Peter’s Clam House, in Island Park, while helping his fellow firefighters raise money for Oceanside Fire Commissioner Michael Graham’s cancerstricken son, Cooper, during the restaurant’s annual clam-eating contest. He was the first Island Park firefighter to die in the line of
duty.
Fischer, who was born and raised in Island Park, joined the department in 2013. He served as a captain from 2019 to 2020, and shortly after his death, he was posthumously promoted to honorary chief.
Last Saturday’s event featured wrestlers from the ECPW Wrestling Academy, in Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey; Create A Pro Wrestling, in Hicksville; and New York Wrestling Connection, in Deer Park. Nearly 300 people attended, and as of press time, over $7,000 had been raised for St. Jude.
Featured matches included Robbie Rebel, who defeated Marc Static to defend his East Cost Professional Wrestling Long Island Championship.
Adam “The Big O” Ohreiner defeated “Bad” Brad Benson to retain his New York Wrestling Connection Championship, and in a reunion of the “pRo” tag team, Wachter (ring name Sean Wokter) joined forces with his childhood friend Adam Baker, as they ConTinuEd on PagE 16
State officials last week announced the completion of a vast $47 million improvement project at Hempstead Lake State Park in West Hempstead that will reduce flood risk and improve access to the 737-acre park.
The project includes two miles of new Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant trails and observation deck. In addition, the 150-year-old Hempstead Lake Dam was repaired and renovated to protect against future storm damage.
State Parks.
“Our parks are some of our greatest resources for relaxation, restoration, and connecting with our families,” said Town of Hempstead Deputy Supervisor Dorothy Goosby in a release. “I am happy that the improvement project has been completed; it was worth the wait.”
ERIK KUllESEID state parks commissionerOfficials said it was one of the largest wetlands projects ever completed by New York
The $4 million renovation of the only high-hazard dam on Long Island, built in 1873, was a priority. Officials said the repaired dam would help maintain water levels of the lake, particularly if another hurricane like Sandy strikes. Officials had determined that if the dam were to fail, the damage would include highway ConTinuEd on PagE 19
T hese vital infrastructure projects will help make the Hempstead Lake State Park and surrounding communities safer and more resilient to future storms.
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Oceanside’s Sunrise Association organization, which started as a program at the Friedberg Jewish Community Center in 2006, is making a profound impact one child at a time. Whether battling cancer, or a sibling who would’ve slipped through the cracks, Sunrise provides a safe space for all. President and chief executive Arnie Preminger had worked at the center for two decades and during that time noticed service gaps in the availability of summer day camps specifically for children with cancer. So, he decided to change the narrative and 17 years later the organization has since expanded nationally and virtually.
With approximately 200,000 children with cancer in a population of 330 million, the Sunrise organization began scouting their camp locations based on nearby hospitals that had pediatric oncology units. After identifying 11 hospitals near Wheatley Heights, they set up the free camp 17 years ago, originally welcoming 96 children.
“Their normal childhood is taken away from them,” said Preminger, “You know, it’s no fault of their own. But this is the short straw that they drew and we thought we might be able to change that.”
Besides the location, they knew camp had to be free of charge after considering the immense financial burden childhood cancer imposes on families. “The impact of childhood cancer on families, no matter what economic strata they’re in, is huge. And to then start thinking about paying for camp is just another burden,” said Preminger.
A recurring theme among the children served by Sunrise is the plight of the siblings, often overlooked in the face of their sibling’s illness. These siblings, who are dragged to chemotherapy sessions and witness more attention being given to their sick sibling, experience their own set of emotions on top of the tribulations of growing up. To address this, Sunrise allows siblings to come as well, and only tells the counselors who are battling cancer if necessary, so all campers are treated equally.
Children enjoy coming to camp so much some will ask their doctors for earlier chemotherapy session so they can catch the bus over to camp, bring buckets because they feel nauseous and have requested to be buried at Pinelawn Cemetery if they die so they can be close to camp. Not only are they changed by the experience, but the counselors have grown and learned about themselves as well. “They become better people,” said Preminger, “it changes their whole perspective.”
In addition to the summer camp, Sunrise has expanded its reach by working directly with hospitals. They bring a trunk full of fun and games to entertain bedridden children, offering a muchneeded distraction and happiness during their medical journey. Furthermore, the organization recently launched Sunrise Studios,
entertainment, but also series like Talk it Out, that features child life specialists tackling delicate subjects such as hair loss and helping children work through their feelings.
“We’re very careful about how we present it, all the subjects, because its delicate” said Athena Levesque, the director of Sunrise VX and main show character Sunny, “child life specialists and social workers or parents will show these to their kids or patients if they kind of need help working through some of those things. But then also on top of that segment, we just have them doing fun things as characters.”
Another notable program offered by Sunrise is Wheels Up, designed to transport children out of their headspace and take them on virtual journeys around the world. Here hospitalized children can explore all 12 Disney parks or discover how birthdays are celebrated internationally. The impact is not only emotional but also medical, as happiness and distraction have been found to help children tolerate larger doses of their treatment.
Since its inception, Sunrise has expanded its services, reaching out to numerous hospitals across the country.
Starting with their first program at Cohen’s Children Hospital in 2009, they have now established partnerships with 133 hospitals nationwide. This growth was made possible in part by a generous $3 million grant from the Marcus Foundation. Furthermore, Sunrise has set an ambitious goal to serve one-third of all eligible children in the United States by 2026, which translates to approximately 63,000 children annually. Notably, they have already achieved their goal of establishing programs in hospitals.
In addition to the in-person camps, Sunrise has expanded its reach through virtual programming, ensuring that children everywhere have access to their services. With a growing number of camps in locations such as Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and even three in Israel, the organization is now preparing to open a new camp in Fort Lauderdale this December.
The Sunrise organization remains steadfastly committed to providing these programs and experiences to children battling cancer. However, their success is entirely reliant on donations, raising an impressive $15 million to $16 million annually, along with their affiliate camps. It costs approximately $6,000 per summer to sponsor a single camper, covering the costs of their participation. However, the financial challenges posed by the recent pandemic have increased costs, making it an uncertain financial future for the organization.
Despite these concerns, the Sunrise team remains determined to ensure that every child who desires to attend the camp can do so. “Our goal is to take every child that wants to come and find a way to give them a meaningful experience,” said Preminger. “It’s about each individual child and making sure that they had a better day than they would have had if we weren’t there.”
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Island Park’s eighth-grade graduates sat center stage on the evening of June 22, when they celebrated their final moments at Lincoln Orens Middle School. The 61st Annual Commencement Ceremony drew an audience of board of education, administration and faculty members, along with students’ proud families.
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The Sunny Atlantic Beach Club opened its doors June 28 to eager guests for Herald Community Newspapers’ Senior Health & Beyond Expo presented by UnitedHealthcare and produced by RichnerLive. It was the third in a series of expos designed especially for senior citizens this year.
More than 35 diverse businesses as well as innovative services shared their products and refined knowledge with attendees to improve wellness and heighten their lifestyle.
Free on-site health screenings were provided by Mount Sinai South Nassau as well as vaccines administered by Parker Jewish. There were also hearing screenings from Dr. Lawrence Cardano of Hearing Center of Long Island — who was also one of the speakers on the expo’s afternoon panel.
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The Nassau County High School Athletics Hall of Fame will hold its 2023 induction ceremony Sept. 28 at the Crest Hollow County Club. For more information and tickets, go to SectionVIII. org. Here’s a list of local athlete honorees.
ROBERT ALABASTER
A man for all seasons, he played five sports at Baldwin starting in 1929. He was a three-time All-Scholastic football lineman and also a starter on the basketball, baseball, swimming and track teams. Won the county backstroke title in swimming.
RON ATANASIO
Regarded as one of the greatest Nassau County soccer players of all-time. Led Oceanside to three consecutive county and Long Island championships and starred on the Sailors’ 18-0 team in 1973 that outscored opponents 99-4.
THERESE DEVLIN
Among the best distance runners in Nassau history while at Wantagh and two-time state champion in the 1500 meters. She was the first female named Gatorade’s New York State track and field player of the year in 1986. She went on to star at Dartmouth and competed in the 1992 Olympic Trials.
BILLY DONOVAN
A Rockville Centre native, he played on championship basketball teams at St. Agnes and earned All-Long Island honors as a senior in 1983. Played collegiately at Providence and helped the Friars reach the Final Four. Thirdround pick of Utah Jazz in 1987 NBA Draft. Coached Florida to 467 wins, including a pair of NCAA titles. Current head coach of the Chicago Bulls.
ARTHUR DUNN
A tremendous distance runner at Sewanhaka and the first in the state to place in the top 10 four times in cross country. He won state championships in 1953 and 1954.
D’BRICKASHAW FERGUSON
Generational football player at Freeport who won the Thorp and Martone Awards as Nassau’s best player and linemen. Helped the Red Devils to a Long Island title as a junior. Starred at the University of Virginia and in the NFL for 10 seasons with the New York Jets. A member of the Jets “Ring of Honor.”
PETER HENNING
Long Island’s and New York State’s first wrestling champion. Wantagh’s Henning won the 98-pound title in 1963. After losing his opening match that season, he ripped off 25 straight victories on the way to the historic state crown.
EAMON MCENEANEY
A three-sport star at Sewanhaka (1973 grad)
who was a fearless football player despite his 5-foot-10, 155-pound frame. Also one of the greatest high school and college lacrosse players in state history, he led Cornell to two NCAA titles.
ANNIE PARK
She was forced to play on the boys’ golf team at MacArthur because there was no girls’ team. It didn’t matter. She became the top golfer in Nassau, beating all the boys and winning the county championship in 2012. Won the NCAA women’s title a year later while helping the University of Southern California capture the team championship.
DICK POILLON
A three-sport star at Valley Stream Central in the 1930s. Excelled in football and also played basketball and baseball. After playing college football at Canisius, he earned a spot on the roster of the then-Washington Redskins.
CLIFTON SMITH
Gatorade’s New York state football Player of the Year in 1988, Smith was a Thorp Award winner and also a finalist as a star linebacker for Freeport. He also played basketball and lacrosse. Was a standout at Syracuse and played in the NFL for Washington and Cleveland.
KEVIN SHIPPOS
An outstanding football player and wrestler at Baldwin, the 1997 grad was a two-time AllCounty fullback/linebacker and a three-time county wrestling champ and a one-time state champ. He also won the 215-pound national wrestling championship.
FRANK TASHMAN
A football and lacrosse standout at Sewanhaka, he teamed with future Heisman Trophy winner and Nassau Hall of Famer Vinny Testaverde to bring the school a county title in 1979 and unbeaten season in 1980. Tashman had 118 points as a senior lacrosse attackman.
NICHOLAS TINTLE
Rushed for over 1,000 yards in 2002 to help MacArthur capture its first-ever county football title. He then rushed for over 2,000 yards as a senior. One of the top lacrosse players in the state and earned Nassau Midfielder of the Year honors in 2004.
AL WILLIAMS
One of the greatest athletes of all-time at Hempstead. A four-year starter on the basketball court and three-year starting quarterback on the gridiron. Under his direction, the Tigers went 8-0 in 1967 and outscored the competition 245-46.
JAMES ZAFFUTO
A record-setting lacrosse player at Elmont, the 1977 grad set multiple Nassau scoring records that have stood for 45 years. Holds career records for points (498) and assists (288.) Played on three NCAA championship title teams at Johns Hopkins.
Castle Connolly has named nine Mount Sinai South Nassau physicians to its 2023 Top Doctors Guide. Nationally, only 7 percent of more than 850,000 practicing doctors in the United States earned Castle Connolly’s “Top Doctors” designation this year.
“I commend each of these tremendous physicians for this outstanding accomplishment,” said Dr. Adhi Sharma, president of Mount Sinai South Nassau. “Their commitment to providing expert, patient-centered care does not go unrecognized by their peers as well as our nurses and advanced practice practitioners.”
According to Castle Connolly, the doctors are best-in-class
health care providers, embodying excellence in clinical care as well as interpersonal skills. The doctors were peer-nominated and selected based on extensive research, careful review, and screening conducted by Castle Connolly’s physician-led research team.
The Top Doctors Guide is a curated list of more than 63,000 board-certified U.S. physicians across all 50 states and all major specialties. Selected physicians specialize in more than 65 medical specialties and subspecialties for the care and treatment of more than 2,100 diseases and medical conditions.
Oceanside resident Jonah Allaben learned that it paid big dividends to be considered “a leading practitioner of energy efficiency in the tri-state area.”
The description has earned Allaben the first-ever Engineer of the Year Award presented by the Long Island chapter of ASHRAE, or American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Airconditioning Engineers. He was presented with the honor at ASHRAE Long Island’s Past Presidents’ Night at Westbury Manor on June 13.
“The Long Island chapter of ASHRAE is pleased to initiate its Engineer of the Year Award by honoring Jonah Allaben, a leading practitioner of energy efficiency in the tri-state area,” Murat Bayramoglu, the group’s president, said.
“At a time when energy efficiency is a crucial priority locally, regionally and nationally, this year’s award-winner underscores the essential role of engineers in achieving the highest standards of energy efficiency.”
The Long Island chapter is dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of the heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration, or HVAC-R, industry and providing personal development and networking opportunities for its members at all career levels,
ASHRAE officials said.
“I think there’s a really good job of fostering a vibrant community for engineering,” Allaben, an ASHRAE member for 15 years, said. “I think it does a good job of trying to promote engineering and promote advancement within our field.”
The award, which will be presented annually, recognizes an engineer, whether it be mechanical, electrical, plumbing or controls, who is Long Island-based or a Long Island resident and has an outstanding record of exceptional performance or innovation in the HVAC-R industry.
“I was pleasantly surprised,” Allaben said of winning the inaugural award. “Individual words are rare, and in a way, the feeling of individual recognition is not sort of conducive to the whole approach to the industry. It really is a team mindset from your own firm to the fact that you’re on a team with an architect, project owner and a contractor to get something built.
“You don’t think of it as an individual thing, but the nicest part has just been hearing kind words from old friends and co-workers that I haven’t spoken to in a while,” Allaben added. “It was a nice reminder that it is a community, and it’s worth celebrating people when you can.”
Allaben, 38, is a mechanical engineer and a senior associate in energy servic-
es at Goldman Copeland Associates, a New York City-based consulting and engineering firm, where has worked for two years. He has 15 years’ experience in managing and designing complex engineering projects.
Originally from Massachusetts, Alla-
ben has lived in Oceanside for 10 years. He graduated from Cornell University and received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering in 2006 and a Master of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering the following year.
After he graduated, he came to Long Island, where his wife grew up and has been living his whole career post-college. Fresh out of college, he worked for seven years at ARUP, the global engineering company headquartered in the United Kingdom, and he then worked at The LiRo Group in Syosset for another seven years.
Since winning his award, Allaben said that it would be a great way to attract interested minds into the engineering field.
“What I would like to encourage out of this is that I think engineering is a great field, and I think it’s a great time to be an engineer,” he said. “There are energy efficiency standards that are coming into play that will really drive a lot of creativity in the engineering world. I think that’s a key goal with the award and the ASHRAE community, trying to remind people there’s opportunity out there and especially for someone coming into high school or college who has a propensity towards problemsolving. If this can help give someone a slight head’s up, I think that would be great.”
Courtesy ASHRAE Long Island Murat Bayramoglu, left, president of ASHRAE Long Island, presents the Engineer of the Year Award to Oceanside’s Jonah Allaben.
For 26 years, the Long Island International Film Expo has united filmmakers, producers, actors and actresses — and of course, moviegoers — right in the heart of Nassau County.
A great opportunity for people to network with professionals, learn about filmmaking, and watch some of this year’s best independent films, the expo — better known as LIIFE — returns to the Bellmore Movies and Showplace at 222 Pettit Ave., on July 19.
The expo has a lot in store for film fanatics this year, said Debra Markowitz. She’s president of the Long Island Film & TV Foundation, and is a co-creator of LIIFE, along with Henry and Anne Stampfel, owners of the Bellmore Movies.
Aside from 131 films — both shorts and features — which will be screened during this year’s expo, there are also a variety of panels and discussions ticket-buyers can attend. In particular, panels on writing, legalities and liabilities, and a director’s point of view on auditions, which are almost always fully booked.
The audition panel includes more than a half-dozen working directors, listening to actors who book themselves for 10-minute slots to read monologues.
“There are people who directors have seen during these auditions, and they might call them a year later or sometimes even two years later and say, ‘Hey, I’m casting this project. You’re great for such and such,’” Markowitz, a Merrick native, explained. “It’s a great way for them to get their face out there and practice auditioning.”
LIIFE receives support from celebrities who frequently make appearances and speak at panels during the expo.
Lukas Hassel — an actor, screenwriter and filmmaker known for roles in television shows such as NBC’s “The
Blacklist” — is again attending the expo.
“Filmmaking is hard,” he said last year. “It’s one thing if you have a studio backing you with $200 million and celebrity actors. But independent filmmaking is really hard. It’s all about reaching out to your colleagues, to your friends, to your community.”
Various venues have hosted LIIFE since its inception, including Hofstra University, Nassau Community College, and even Malverne Cinema on Hempstead Avenue. For the past 15 years — with the exception of 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic — Bellmore Movies
Visit LongIslandFilm.com to see the lineup of events at the Long Island International Film Expo, and to purchase a Gold Pass, which
has been the festival’s home.
LIIFE also receives support each year from Nassau County, to the point its financial sponsorship makes the expo possible.
The film festival attracts everyone, from students, to successful filmmakers, to those just getting started.
“You have people who have really made it in the industry, who maybe do their own projects and lots of shows,” Markowitz said, “but you also have people who are just starting out, who maybe haven’t made a film yet. They can sit in the panels and ask all kinds of questions.
“So we kind of make the place you know, for filmmakers big and small — to really come and be a film community. That’s what I really think we do better than pretty much anybody else.”
And even though the 2023 expo is just around the corner, Markowitz said the Film & TV Foundation is already hard at work, planning the next one.
“I can’t believe we’ve been around for 26 years, and everything we’ve gone through and the changes that we’ve made,” Markowitz said. “It’s an all-volunteer staff, which is a big-time commitment and work commitment. It feels great to be able to get it done.”
Tim Baker/Herald file Debra Markowitz, president of the Long Island Film & TV Foundation — and co-director of LIIFE — returns to bring yet another Long Island International Film Expo to the Bellmore Movies and Showplace on July 19.
By Karen Bloom
Cotton candy, zeppole, the ubiquitous Ferris wheel. Of course, it must be time for the fair. That summertime staple is back again, taking over the Nassau Coliseum grounds, through July 16.
By Karen Bloom
Circus-type spectacle, an old-school “oddity” sideshow, exotic animals, along with plenty of thrill rides for all ages and midway action, all combine for an extravaganza that entices all ages.
Step right up everyone: The Royal Hanneford Circus carries forth with time-honored circus traditions refreshed for the 21st century. Producers Adrian Poema and Nellie Hanneford Poema — along with their four talented children, Catherine, Mariana, Adrian Jr., and Tommy — are focused on bringing a fresh new take on circus arts under the Big Top.
The Hanneford Family, long considered the “Royal Family of the Circus,” can rightly claim an unbroken span of circus history fast approaching three centuries. Beginning with Edwin Hanneford in the late 1600s to the present, they have consistently amazed, amused, thrilled and delighted audiences everywhere with their exploits and skilled acts. From aerial high-wire feats, to illusionists, freestyle motocross, the human cannonball, the big cats, and more — this surely is an edge-of-your-seat experience.
out the red carpet once again for the Long Island International Film Expo, now in its 26th year. LIIFE is proud to present 133 films — 75 of them from New York filmmakers, and 30 of them by Long Islanders. Even more statistics of note: LIIFE World premieres, five U.S. premieres, short- to feature-length, moviegoers can partake of a diverse group of 156 independent films this year include: ‘1,000 Years A Witness,’ to their youth; ‘Across,’ in which three young American World War II
widows take a day trip to celebrate the younger sister’s bittersweet engagement, when a corrosive and dangerous secret from the past reemerges; ‘The Concertgoer,’ the tale of a couple who, when finding the Shostakovich concert they had planned to see is sold out, are guided to an obscure garden where they find the elusive concertgoer, silent and still, lying on a brick slab.
Wednesday through Sunday, July 19-23. Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Ave., Bellmore. Tickets and information available at LongIslandFilm.com.
Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale
• Now through July 16, 5-11 p.m. weekdays; noon-11 p.m.
• Saturday and Sunday, noon-4 p.m.; Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Emily Lowe Hall Gallery, South Campus, Hempstead. For information and to RSVP, call (516) 463-5672, or visit Hofstra.edu/museum
Saturday and Sunday
• $10 (free for kids under 36 inches tall with paying adult); unlimited ride wristbands (for riders 36 inches and taller) are $35, $40 FridaySunday.
“When We All Stand,” Hofstra University Museum of Art’s new exhibition, examines the collective power of the arts in society.
Curated by Alexandra Giordano — the museum’s assistant director of exhibition and collection — the exhibit underscores artists’ civic responsibility and influence.
• Ride tickets are also available at the carnival for $1.50 each, $30/20 tickets, or $60/50 tickets plus 1 free ride (rides take 2 or more tickets each)
More animal antics can be found at Eudora Farms Exotic Petting Zoo, where kids can get up-close and personal with a variety of exotic animals from the four corners of the globe. Kids can meet and greet the animals — and feed them.
Be sure to check out the World of Wonders sideshow, new to the fair this year. Visit the colorful tent and be drawn into the scene involving 10 sideshow acts, under the watchful eye of Tommy Breen — aka The Great Gozleone. Sword swallower extraordinaire, his antics are boundless, including fire-eating and stunts with a guillotine that are not for the faint of heart.
“It highlights the vital role that artists have in activating democratic values that promise equality and freedom, encouraging civic engagement, and cultivating unity,” Giordano says. “Artists often lead the charge and expose truths that may otherwise be ignored. The artists in this exhibition take a stand and call out injustices through their art and activism on issues such as immigration, gender, reproductive rights, mass incarceration, voting rights, racial bias, gun violence, and promises unfulfilled. They all combine the making of art with public service that has a grassroots approach in the hope of mobilizing their communities and the nation to ignite movement, create awareness, and inspire others to stand with them.”
“When I was 14, I decided I wanted to run away with the sideshow,” Breen says. “I started teaching myself sword swallowing and some other stunts out of the back of a book I found. I didn’t think there still were
This exhibit, which runs through July 28, is in conjunction with Hofstra’s 13th presidential conference on the Barack Obama presidency coming up in April.
sideshows around, I figured I could perform in bars with bands or something. But then, when I graduated college, I saw Ward Hall was hiring for his World of Wonders show. I was shocked it was still on the road and that I had the chance to work for the King of the Sideshow. So, I quit my job and got rid of my apartment and joined the carnival. It was what I had always daydreamed about, and once I got here, I just never left.”
Breen proudly carries on the sideshow tradition, with his fellow sideshow folk.
Strongwoman Luella Lynne emcees the show and astounds visitors with feats of strength, bending metal, ripping phone books, and breaking metal chains with her bare hands. Other “talents” include Sam Rezz, who performs with hula hoops, needle swallowing and contact juggling. And don’t miss out on Lucy Lovett, the electric lady, with her painproof woman act.
And, of course, don’t miss out on the rides. The midway features plenty of attractions that all ages will enjoy, including the Dream Wheel (one of the largest Ferris wheels on the fair circuit), the Grand Carousel, Super Cyclone roller coaster, Wacky Worm family roller coaster, Storybook Fun House, super slide, and bumper cars.
And, yes, in case you’re wondering, you can still take a spin in those tea cups. Some things never go out of style.
“We were interested in the idea that the artist has a civic responsibility,” says museum director Karen Albert. “The initial idea for this exhibition was inspired by an Obama Administration White House briefing that took place on May 12, 2009, where more than 60 artists and creative organizers met with administration officials to
Pat McGann is quickly rising as one of the sharpest stand-ups on the comedy scene. A relative latecomer to comedy, he began doing standup at 31 after realizing he was not very good at selling packaging. He hustled his way to become the house emcee at Zanies Chicago, where he distinguished himself as especially adept at working the crowd. A husband and father of three young children, McGann’s appeal stems from his quick wit and relatable take on family life and marriage. In 2017, McGann began touring as the opening act for Sebastian Maniscalco, moving with him from clubs to theater, to arenas, including four soldout shows at Madison Square Garden. McGann’s relatively short, but impressive resume, includes Montreal’s famed Just For Laughs Festival, Gilda’s LaughFest, The Great American Comedy Festival, and more. McGann still calls Chicago home.
Saturday, Feb. 11, 8 p.m. $40, $35, $30, $25. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. (800) 745-3000 or Ticketmaster.com or ParamountNY.com.
Laugh the night away at Mom’s Night Out, presented by Long Island Comedy Festival. You’ll enjoy witty standup delivered by four clever comics. Ellen Karis, known as the ‘Greek Goddess of Comedy,’ performs at venues throughout North America. She’s described as the ‘little dynamo’ given her petite stature, strong improv skills and ability to build a quick rapport with any audience. New York City-born and raised in a traditional strict Greek home, her brand of sarcastic, observational humor is along the same lines as comedy legends Joan Rivers and Richard Lewis. She’s joined by Maria Walsh, ‘America’s Naughtiest Mommy,’ whose quick wit, combined with coordinating facial expressions, give her a memorable and commanding stage presence. Kendra Cunningham, a Boston native who absconded to New York to peruse performing, who whines too much in her dreams. And Maureen Langan, acclaimed for her high-energy, versatile style that highlights her warmth and razor-edge repartee.
Thursday, July 20, 8 p.m. $35$40. Madison Theatre, Molloy University, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre. (516) 323-4444 or MadisonTheatreNY.org.
Can art change the world? It’s a question that’s been at the focus of our collective culture for centuries. Now as society navigates the complexities of modern life, art as a path for social change is at the forefront of artistic expression.
The folk rocker is back on tour, appearing on the Tilles Center stage, Friday and Saturday, July 21-22, 8 p.m. Singer, songwriter, producer, activist, humanitarian, best-selling author — Brandi Carlile has done it all. Since the release of her breakthrough album “By The Way, I Forgive You in 2018,” Carlile has won Grammy Awards, earned Billboard’s Women in Music Trailblazer Award, and received several Americana Music Association accolades. She won her seventh, eighth and ninth Grammys this year, winning for best Americana album with ”In These Silent Days.” Her song “Broken Horses,” won both best rock song and best rock performance. A versatile performer hailed by Billboard for her “impressive vocal range” and “captivating presence,” Carlile has topped the Americana and Rock charts with solo hits, co-founded the country supergroup The Highwomen, and collaborated with legendary artists including Elton John, Alicia Keys, Dolly Parton, and Miley Cyrus. Don’t miss an evening of iconic songs such as “The Story,” “That Wasn’t Me,” and “The Joke.” Seemingly everywhere, Carlisle has transitioned from an Americana powerhouse to a major headliner beloved by the industry and the public. Carlile’s career has been on a steep upward trajectory and her “Bramily” has her fans are known, are with her every step of the way. LIU Post campus, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville. Tickets are $51.50 -$481.50; available at TillesCenter.org or (516) 299-3100.
View the landmark exhibition “Modigliani and the Modern Portrait,” opening at Nassau County Museum of Art, Saturday, July 22. Devoted to the way that Modigliani powerfully re-defined the art of portraiture, the show includes his masterworks along with paintings and drawings by his Parisian contemporaries (Picasso, van Dongen, Laurencin). Modigliani’s enduring influence on artists even in our own time is shown in a selection of Contemporary paintings by such important figures as David Hockney, Eric Fischl, Elizabeth Peyton and others. The exhibition is being curated by Dr. Kenneth Wayne, founder of The Modigliani Project, which authenticates paintings and drawings (two of the works in the show have been recently approved by the committee). Through Nov. 5. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.
Kids ages 6-9 can tour Old Westbury Gardens and examine how science is all around us in nature, Thursday, July 27, 2 p.m. Learn how plants grow and take home your own plant, as you participate in experiments of the water cycle and how we can use science to change the color of a flower both naturally and artificially. 71 Old Westbury Rd., Old Westbury. For information visit OldWestburyGardens.org or contact (516) 333-0048.
Peter’s Annual Clam Eating Contest is back. Come to Peter’s Clam Bar for the challenge, Sunday, Aug. 13. Firehouse challenge begins at 1 p.m. and public challenge begins at 2:30 p.m. All proceeds will be donated to Beyond the Badge. 600 Long Beach Road. admission is free. Register to participate at PetersClamHouse.com.
Not sure how to get started on your college essay? The Hofstra University Admission Office is offering virtual workshops to help high school students learn the skills to tell their story in a way that helps them stand out. The workshops, Thursday, July 20 and Aug. 17, 4-5 p.m., are free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. Hear from Hofstra Admission counselors about how to brainstorm topics, and compose a thoughtful essay that shows your personality, talents and interests. For more information about Hofstra Admission’s other virtual summer workshops, go to Admission.Hofstra.edu/ portal/virtual_admission_ webinars. To schedule a summer in-person visit go to: Hofstra.edu/visit.
Mercy Hospital offers a peer to peer meeting for breastfeeding support and resources, facilitated by a certified breastfeeding counselor, every Thursday, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Bring your baby (from newborn to 1 year) to the informal group setting. All new moms are welcome, regardless of delivering hospital. Registration required. Call breastfeeding counselor, Gabriella Gennaro, at (516) 7052434 to secure you and your baby’s spot. Mercy Hospital, St. Anne’s Building, 1000 North Village Ave., Rockville Centre. For information visit CHSLI.org.
Looking for a relaxing place to hang out and meet new people? Drop by the Oceanside Library Community Room, every Friday, from 4 to 6 p.m. to make new memories. Come alone or with friends. Craft supplies, games and snacks will be available. 56 Atlantic Ave. Visit OceansideLibrary.com for info.
Oceanside Fire Department is looking to inspire local high school students to strengthen their appreciation of the historical importance of the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 and encourage Oceanside students to participate in an essay contest. First place will be awarded $500 and second place will earn $250. Awards will be presented to contest winners at the 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony at the School House Green on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. The first-place essay will be read during the event, by the author if they so choose. Winners will be notified by Sept. 1. Applicants must be entering grades 9-12 during the 2023-24 school year and attend the Oceanside School District. Submit an original essay on the topic: “Why We Should Never Forget 9/11.” Submission deadline is Aug. 20 at 5 p.m.; submit in Word or pdf format to 9-11 essaycontest@oceansidefd. net.
Items on The Scene page are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest. All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to thescene@liherald.com.
On stage
Plaza Theatricals brings the iconic musical “Rent,” back to the stage, Friday, July 21, 7:30 p.m. The acclaimed reimagining of “La Vie Boheme,” loosely based on Puccini’s opera and set on East Village streets, fire escapes, tenements, and cafes. This groundbreaking roller coaster ride depicting the joys and sorrows of an eclectic, diverse group of young artists and activists is always captivating. It’s performed at the Elmont Library Theatre, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. $35, $30 seniors. Elmont. For tickets, call (516) 599-6870 or visit PlazaTheatrical.com.
Practice the “art” of looking at art at Nassau County Museum of Art, Thursday, July 27, 10-11 a.m., with NCMA Director of Education Laura Lynch. Mindful looking invites you to observe, question, and calmly reflect in a relaxed and supportive environment free of distraction. It’s an opportunity to experience and enjoy the art in the galleries or sculpture garden, together, making personal connection. $10. Space is limited and registration required. Also Aug. 3. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.
LISW Divisional meeting is on Wednesday, July 19, at 7 p.m. at Alias Smith & Jones in Oceanside. A great way to meet with and hear from other neighboring Kiwanis clubs. Dinner is $45 per person. 2863 Woods Ave.
Take Back prescription drug day Island Park Kiwanis will participate with the Nassau County Police Department in the “Take Back Prescription Drug” event, at Island Park Library, Saturday, July 22, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Members are welcome to attend and help out. 176 Long Beach Road. Visit IslandParkLibrary.org for information.
clinched the vacant East Coast Professional Wrestling Tag Team Championships by defeating “The Wild Boyz,” Papa Clout and Tristian Kyle, with Will Strausman.
Prince Akkanatan won the first-ever Captain Michael Fischer Memorial Battle Royal, and was awarded a championship belt featuring Fischer to commemorate his victory.
Along with raffles and food trucks, the event also included a performance by local musician Matt Casecaella.
Wachter, 38, a strategic account executive for GIG USA, a global marketing firm, was born in Baldwin and grew up in Rockville Centre.
He was a collegiate lacrosse and football player at Alfred State College, and afterward coached high school football, lacrosse and wrestling in the Baldwin and Long Beach school districts. He also had a stint as an outside linebacker in the now-defunct Arena Football League in 2008.
But Wachter’s true love was always professional wrestling. When they were young, he and Baker decided that wrestling was for them.
“I grew up and it was one of those textbook stories,” Wachter said. “We built a ring in his uncle’s backyard, and we used to camp out and wait for tickets. It was something special for me.”
Wachter had trained to become a professional wrestler, and when the Arena
Football League went defunct, he tried out for WWE, but a severe neck injury, which he had suffered in an accident, derailed his dreams of becoming a pro wrestler.
This marks the third consecutive year that Wachter, along with wrestling veteran Gino Caruso, organized a wrestling fundraiser at Post 246. This is also the second year Wachter had wrestled at the fundraiser: He hosted Fight Wachter
Fight last summer for Memorial Sloan Kettering Kids at the post, which raised $5,000.
Proceeds from this year’s event were donated to St. Jude in Fischer’s memory. The event was especially important to Wachter not only because of his friendship with Fischer but also because he is a cancer survivor himself. Wachter was diagnosed with rare Stage 4 melanoma with leptomeningeal enhancement, which he battled for seven years before receiving a clean DNA scan last summer. According to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, his was the only documented reversal of his type of cancer, which has a life expectancy of 12 weeks after diagnosis. His triumph propelled him back into the ring in celebration last year.
“I had gotten so sick, and I wasn’t supposed to be here,” Wachter said. “When I got cleared, I said I was going to throw a party, and wrestling was going to be a part of it. I got a wiggle room of clearance from my doctor, which I never thought I’d get, to go ahead and wrestle again.
Wachter’s father, John Wachter, a retired sergeant in the Nassau County Police Department, has managed the Baldwin American Legion since 1985, and to earn extra money, his son worked on Friday nights as a bartender. Once Fischer started coming down to the American Legion, the two formed a strong friendship, and it was Fisher who
suggested that Wachter return to the ring and wrestle as a part of the fundraising event once he was cleared.
“He said, ‘It would be cool if I wrestled at the event,’” Wachter said, adding of Fischer, “Sweetest human being you could ever meet. It was his idea and he passed away right before it happened.”
The Fight Wachter Fight for MSK Kids event took place last Aug. 27, about two weeks after Fischer died. Since the event was well received last year, with hundreds in attendance, Wachter was asked to put on another show this year, which he dedicated to Fischer while helping out children at St. Jude.
“When they asked this year to do it, I said most certainly,” Wachter said. “This is so near and dear to me. With Captain Fischer passing and him being a friend of mine, I had beat my cancer, so I thought, let’s not have the story be about cancer, let’s have it be about his memory and raising money, especially for the poor children on the receiving end of this.”
After five months of planning, Wachter climbed back into the wrestling ring for the second year in a row — but only the third time since 2011. He said he plans to continue the wrestling fundraiser next year, and hopes to feature more local and nationally recognized names and continue to grow.
“I’m going to start working on next year’s event next week,” he said, “and we’ll make it much bigger and better.”
Rip currents are powerful, narrow channels of fast-moving water that are eaily missed by the human eye of swimmers. Panicked swimmers often try to fight a rip current by swimming against it straight back to the beach, which puts themselves at a high risk of drowning because of fatigue.
Garden City resident Josephine De Moura lost her daughter, Alexandra, because of that exact scenario on August 4, 2019. Alexandra was on vacation with some friends in Cabo and got swept away on a sandbar. She tried to fight against the current, but couldn’t. She was a highly touted athlete at Garden City High School and George Washington University, primarily in gymnastics.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman took to the sand at Nickerson Beach last Wednesday to address this and announce the month of July now has a new name — Rip Current Awareness Month.
Blakeman was joined by Nassau County Legislator, Presiding Officer Rich Nicolello, Commissioner of Parks, Recreation and Museums Darcy Belyea and De Moura.
“Here’s a terrible statistic,” Blakeman said. There are over 60 people that have died in the United States just this
year from rip currents. So, we have to know how to negotiate our way out of rip currents. That’s what we’re doing here today.”
Blakeman spoke about the dangers of the ocean and how to be safe and signed an executive order declaring the month. De Moura then spoke about her daughter, Alexandria, who drowned in the rip current nearly four years ago.
“Her natural instinct was to is to fight against the current and she tired out not knowing what to do and drowned,” she said of her daughter. “If I can save one family from the devastation that my family and I are going through, it is my mission. Knowledge is power.”
De Moura started a rip current safety course at Garden City High School. Students learn how to safely navigate and escape from a rip current if they’re ever
New signs were unveiled at the beach entrances explaining how to be safe if caught in a rip current.
caught in one. De Moura said her plan is to get the course into every Long Island district.
Blakeman and De Moura then debuted a new rip current safety sign at the entrance ramp to the sand at Nickerson Beach. It is one of eight new signs in Lido Beach trying to educate beach goers on how to identify a rip current, how to stay safe and how to respond and react if caught in one. The signs illustrate a rip current, showing how it moves, where to escape and offers pointers on how to avoid them and still go in the water. The signs are dedicated to Alexandria.
Blakeman also praised the local beach lifeguards, saying along with the new signage and colored flags indicating where it’s safe to swim, people will be safer in the ocean. Green flags indicate where it’s safe to swim, red where
it’s not and purple where and when a shark has been spotted.
He also showcased some of the additional technology they have been using this summer.
“We’re on the beaches with all-terrain vehicles, we’re in the sky with helicopters, we’re on the water with the police marine boats and we have drones that are flying constantly to make sure that all of our residents are safe at the beaches,” Blakeman said. “We have the most amazing beaches in the world here in Nassau County. You look at this, Nickerson Beach, and you don’t see beaches like this anywhere else in the world. It’s just unbelievable.”
After unveiling the new sign, Blakeman spoke about the drones the county has been using to identify sharks at its beaches. He said the increased surveillance has made a big difference already in getting swimmers away from danger out quicker. “It’s made a difference because we can get people out of the water quickly if there are sightings.”
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, rip currents are usually going to occur more at low tide when you have waves breaking over sandbars near the shore. And that’s the third part, the sandbars. Usually, there is going to have strong rip currents where there is a significant sandbar near the shore with a channel in it.
Brendan Carpenter/HeraldNo matter the industry, businesses around the world are undergoing dramatic changes to the way they operate From technology and skills development, to cultural barriers, self-care and mental health, every organization must adapt and evolve, or risk being left behind.
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flooding, water supply issues, and possible fatalities. The state received a $35 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and another $12 million in State Parks capital money was used.
The project was part of the Living with the Bay Initiative, created in the wake of Sandy to strengthen South Shore waterfront communities in Nassau County along Mill River. The state committed $125 million to fortify East Rockaway, Bay Park, Lynbrook, Malverne, Oceanside, and Rockville Centre from future stormwater damage.
The final phase of the project, recently finished, was making the 144-acre Northern Ponds complex better able to handle stormwater runoff into Hewlett Bay while reducing flood risks on Mill River.
Parks officials said they built eight acres of wetlands to allow runoff from Southern State Parkway to slowly filter before entering Northeast Pond. Smith Pond, a 22-acre freshwater pond in Rockville Centre, was upgraded with dredging and a floodwall.
“The culmination of these vital infrastructure projects will help make the Hempstead Lake State Park and surrounding communities safer and more resilient to future storms, while improving access to outdoor recreation in the community,” New York State Parks Commissioner Erik Kulleseid said in a release.
Other upgrades to the park include a new Eagle Avenue parking lot; an observation deck overlooking Northeast Pond; and removal of invasive plant species and replanting native species. Officials said it took one year to remove by hand more than 100 tons of decades-old trash in the Northern Ponds areas.
“We want everyone to enjoy our New York State Parks, especially those in District 18, the addition of new and better accessible trail ways open up the opportunity for all New Yorkers to enjoy the gorgeous trails, lake, and wildlife that Hempstead Lake State Park offers,” said Assemblywoman Taylor Darling in a release. “As a member of the Committee on People with Disabilities, improving accessibility is incredibly important to me.”
A new 10-foot wide stone dust greenway trail was built to provide a continuous north-to-south trail system through the park. An 8-foot wide stone dust wetlands trail and two pedestrian bridges were built to allow emergency and maintenance vehicles access.
With an eye to the possibility of future storms, sluice gates were installed to allow control of lake levels prior to and during flooding. There is a new water level monitoring and lake temperature gauge system so officials can manage conditions in real-time and track data over time.
The 8,000-square-foot Environmental
Education and Resiliency Center was built in 2021 at a cost of $8.3 million. The center features hands-on learning about storms and environmental management, and will serve as an emergency coordination center during disaster response, officials said.
“Through its multiyear investment, New York State has safeguarded the natural treasures contained within Hempstead Lake State Park and made them accessible for every resident in the surrounding communities to enjoy,” Nassau County Legislator Siela A. Bynoe said in a release.
Hempstead Lake State Park is a sprawling multiuse facility with 18 tennis courts, six pickleball courts, playgrounds, basketball courts, softball field, bridle trails for horseback riding, biking and hiking trails, shaded picnic areas, and a historic hand-carved wooden carousel. There are also three bodies of freshwater that are accessible for fishing. The 167acre Hempstead Lake is the largest freshwater lake on Long Island.
For more information, call (516) 7661029 or visit the New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation website at Parks.ny.gov.
LEGAL NOTICE
REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF NASSAU BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff - againstRICHARD ALVAREZ, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on April 19, 2023. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
“Rain or Shine” on the 20th day of July, 2023 at 2:00 PM. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvement thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the at Oceanside, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York.
Long Beach, shown part of holdings of Island Park Long Beach Inc., Sheet 14, W.E. Howard, C.E., dated December 29, 1925 and filed in the Nassau County Clerk’s Office on Dec. 29, 1925 as Map No. 587 and also shown on Map No. 572 as and by Lots 26, 27 and 27A and dock plots 26, 27 and 28 in Block 106. Approximate amount of judgment is $570,956.30 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. PETER KRAMER, Referee - (516) 510-4020. MARGOLIN, WEINREB & NIERER, LLP, Attys. for Pltf., 165 Eileen Way, Ste. 101, Syosset, NY 11791. #100476 140250
LEGAL NOTICE
NY 12866. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered February 16, 2023, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 25, 2023 at 2:00 PM.
Premises known as 3648 Lorrie Drive, Oceanside, NY 11572. Sec 60 Block 87
Lot 9. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Oceanside, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York.
will cancel the sale. Mark Ricciardi, Esq., Referee Chartwell Law, One Battery Park Plaza, Suite 710, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff 140400
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT
COUNTY OF NASSAU, NJCC-NYS COMMUNITY RESTORATION FUND
the issuance of a permit by the Department of Buildings of the Town of Hempstead. The forgoing resolution was seconded by Councilmember Dunne and adopted upon roll call as follows: AYES: SEVEN (7) NOES: NONE (0) 140659
shall come to a full stop.
OCEANSIDE FOXHURST
ROAD (TH 252/23) - STOP
- All traffic traveling southbound on Parkview Place shall come to a full stop. POINT LOOKOUT
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Dated:
Premises known as 3521 Anchor Place, Oceanside, New York 11572. (Section: 54, Block: 441, Lot: 24, 25, 27) Approximate amount of lien $1,229,169.25 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 002678/2010. Michael Joseph Sepe, Esq., Referee. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 840 New York, NY 10170 Tel. 347/286-7409
May 17, 2023 During the COVID-19 health emergency, bidders are required to comply with all governmental health requirements in effect at the time of sale including but not limited to, wearing face coverings and maintaining social distancing (at least 6-feet apart) during the auction, while tendering deposit and at any subsequent closing. Bidders are also required to comply with the Foreclosure Auction Rules and COVID-19 Health Emergency Rules issued by the Supreme Court of this County in addition to the conditions set forth in the Terms of Sale.
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME
COURT. NASSAU COUNTY.
TOORAK CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC, Pltf. vs. INTERCONTINENTAL AMERICA FREIGHT SERVICES, INC S/H/A
INTERCONTINENTAL AMERICA FREIGHT SERVICES INC., et al, Defts. Index #613354/2021. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale entered May 16, 2023, I will sell at public auction on the North Side steps of the Nassau Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on July 25, 2023 at 3:30 p.m. premises k/a 1010 California Place S., Island Park, Ny 11558 a/k/a Section 43, Block 100, Lots 26-27, 68-70 and 127. Said property designated on Map of Island Park,
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKCOUNTY OF NASSAU NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC
D/B/A MR. COOPER, V. JAMES LOPEZ, ET. AL.
NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE
IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated April 26, 2023, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC
D/B/A MR. COOPER is the Plaintiff and JAMES LOPEZ, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501 on July 25, 2023 at 2:30PM, premises known as 165 NASSAU LANE, ISLAND PARK, NY 11558: Section 43, Block 50, Lot 307: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF ISLAND PARK, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK
Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 611056/2019. Edward Andreas Vincent, Esq. - Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES.
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT NASSAU COUNTY VELOCITY COMMERCIAL CAPITAL, LLC, Plaintiff against 3648 LORRIE DR CORP, et al Defendant(s)
Attorney for Plaintiff(s)
McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC, 7 Wells Street, Suite 205B, Saratoga Springs,
Approximate Amount of Judgment is $811,242.08 plus interest, fees, and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 610118/2020. The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 10th Judicial District’s Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules. The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding facial coverings and social distancing. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the Court Appointed Referee shall cancel the foreclosure auction. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.” Peter Kramer, Esq., Referee (516) 5104020 23-000882-01
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, PS FUNDING, INC., Plaintiff, vs. W HENRIETTA PROPERTIES LLC, ET AL., Defendant(s).
Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on October 3, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on August 1, 2023 at 2:00 p.m., premises known as 307 West Henrietta Avenue, Oceanside, NY 11572. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Oceanside, in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 43, Block 345 and Lot 43. Approximate amount of judgment is $696,448.59 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 614017/2020. This foreclosure sale will be held on the north side steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee
LLC, Plaintiff, vs. JAMES J. ABRAHAM, JR, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee’s Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on January 21, 2020, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on August 9, 2023 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 3857 Carrel Boulevard, Oceanside, NY 11572. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 60, Block 74 and Lot 8. Approximate amount of judgment is $734,531.84 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 2015-3743. Cash will not be accepted. This foreclosure sale will be held on the north side steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale. George Esernio, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff 140457
LEGAL NOTICE
CASE NO. 12649
RESOLUTION NO.659-
2022 Adopted: May 24, 2022 Councilmember Carini offered the following resolution and moved its adoption: RESOLUTION GRANTING THE PETITON OF THE GIAMBRONE ASSET MANAGEMENT TRUST, AS OWNER, AND BOLLA EM REALTY, LLC, AS LESSEE, FOR A VARIANCE FROM THE PROVISIONS OF THE GSS DISTRICT, SITE PLAN MODIFICATION APROVAL, AND A MODIFICATION OF RESTRICITVE COVENANTS FOR REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1589 MERRICK ROAD, MERRICK, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK. WHEREAS, the petition of Bolla EM Realty, LLC, as lessee, with offices at 809 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, New York 11530, and the Giambrone Asset Management Trust, as property owner, with an address at 14
Kotfield Court, Melville, New York 11747, dated and acknowledged June 25, 2021, for site plan modification approval, a Variance from the GSS provisions and a modification of Restrictive Coveneants for property located on the northeast corner of Merrick Road and Central Boulevard, Merrick, New York, more particularly described hereinafter, was filed with this Town Board; and WHEREAS, Bolla EM Realty, LLC, as lessee, and the Giambrone Asset Management Trust, as a property owner, have submitted to the Town of Hempstead a Declaration of Restrictive Covenants dated August 25, 2022, and executed by Harvinder Singh, Member (Bolla) and John Giambrone, Trustee (Giambrone) (executed in counterparts) with reference to said overall parcel that modifies a Declaration of Restrictive Covenants recorded in the Office of the Nassau County Clerk on January 27, 1986; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the petition of Bolla EM Realty, as property owner, dated June 25, 2021, for site plan modification approval, aVariance from the GSS provisions and a modification of Restricitve Covenants at the hereinafter described property in Merrick, New York, is hereby granted and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the property which is the subject of said Petition is known and designated as Section 55, Block 180, Lot 32 on the Nassau County Land And Tax Map, the meets and bounds of which are described in the Declaration of Restrictive Covenants and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that said petition is granted subject to the provisions of Chapter 132 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead and the Building Zone Ordinance of the Town of Hempstead, and further approvals if required from the Board of Appeals or any other governmental entity and the submission of a Declaration of Restrictive Covenants acceptable to this Board and the subject premises shall be maintained in accordance with the site plan prepared by High Point Engineering, last revised on May 10, 2022 and filed with the Town Clerk; and be it further RESOLVED, that this inclusion shall become effective upon
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD LOCAL LAW NO. 49 -2023 PLEASE TAKE
NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, as amended, a public hearing was duly called and held on the day of June 20, 2023, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead, on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 49-2023, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Local Law No. 49-2023, for the enactment of an amendment to Chapter 99 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead entitled “Registration and Permitting of Property” in relation to accessory structures and penalties.
Dated:Hempstead, New York June 20, 2023 BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD KATE MURRAY Town Clerk
DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor 140661
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE
NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and Municipal Home Rule of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing will be held in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Hempstead, New York, on the 1st day of August, 2023, at 10:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day to consider the enactment of a local law to amend Section 197-5 of the code of the Town of Hempstead to INCLUDE “ARTERIAL STOPS” at the following locations: MERRICK FREDERICK AVENUE (TH 218/23) - STOP - All traffic traveling northbound on State Street shall come to a full stop. FREDERICK AVENUE (TH 218/23)STOP - All traffic traveling southbound on State Street
BELLMORE AVENUE (TH 306/23) - STOP - All traffic traveling eastbound on Beech Street shall come to a full stop. BELLMORE AVENUE (TH 306/23) -
STOP - All traffic traveling westbound on Beech Street shall come to a full stop. (NR) VALLEY STREAM PARK LANE (TH 578/22) -
STOP - All traffic traveling westbound on Park Court shall come to a full stop. PARK LANE (TH 578/22) -
STOP - All traffic traveling westbound on Sherwood Street shall come to a full stop. WANTAGH DEMOTT AVENUE (TH 268/23) -
STOP - All traffic traveling southbound on Temple Drive shall come to a full stop. WILLOWOOD DRIVE (TH 271/23) -
STOP - All traffic traveling northbound on Western Lane shall come to a full stop. EMPLE DRIVE (TH 281/23) - STOP - All traffic traveling eastbound on Princeton Drive North shall come to a full stop. ALL PERSONS INTERESTED shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposal at the time and place aforesaid. Dated:
July 11, 2023 Hempstead, New York BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD
DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR.
Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk
140662
LEGAL NOTICE
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU
U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF10 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, -vs- Plaintiff, SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 601432/2023 PIOTR PRYSAK; RORY
FEIGENBLATT; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; R&R CONCRETE, INC.; BUILD TECH CONTRACTING CORP.;”JOHN DOE #1-5” and “JANE DOE #1-5” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants, tenants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants.
Mortgaged Premises:
ISLAND PARK, NY 11558 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. Your failure to appear or to answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME
If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing an answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. NASSAU County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises.
Dated: June 27, 2023 VICTOR SPINELLI, ESQ. FEIN, SUCH & CRANE, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 28 EAST MAIN ST., SUITE 1800 ROCHESTER, NY 14614 Telephone No.585/226-7310 NYFC@ FEINSUCH.COM AYSN417 140610
12 Month Position
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS PER NASSAU COUNTY CIVIL SERVICE
Training and Experience
Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university, AND
Four years of satisfactory administrative staff experience, which must include participating in budget preparation, and/or personnel and/or procurement activities.
NOTE: 1. Experience, as outlined above, in excess of the four-year requirement, may be substituted for college education on a year-for-year basis up to a maximum of four years.
2. A Master's degree from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university may be substituted for one year of the experience as outlined above.
Anticipated Start Date: Upon Civil Service Approval
Please submit letter of interest and resume to:
Ms. Diane Drakopoulos
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Q. Since Covid I’ve been working mostly from home. I’m planning to build a home office in my basement, and will use metal wall studs with rockwool to insulate around the outside wall and also the inside walls for sound privacy. My child’s playroom will be just outside the office. I’m wondering whether I need to put in some kind of heater or air conditioner or just put a vent in the wall for airflow. My basement normally stays pretty cool in the summer, and isn’t too cold in the winter, usually around 60 to 65 degrees. Only about 18 inches of the basement is above ground. Should I add a split air conditioner and heater, use a space heater or just put vents in my office wall to the outside room?
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A. You gave useful information that helps give me a clear understanding of the issues. There are many things to know about finishing a basement, because of building code safety requirements, thermal comfort, lighting levels and even the ceiling height. Hopefully you already know that you need a building permit, even though most people roll their eyes at this, because getting a permit isn’t as simple as it used to be, and because of the difficulties, many people avoid the process.
Consider that you need an escape well from the main room, and you can’t exit through the office room to the exterior, because you can’t exit through a smaller space with a potentially closed door.
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Your thermal comfort, working at any hour of the day, is important, and your choice of wall metal studs can avoid potential moisture effects that can rot wood wall studs. In a recent conversation with a contractor, he said that he often sees wall studs rusted when he opens the walls to renovate, so be sure that the wall cavity has a water-resistant coating on the masonry or concrete wall surfaces. Although I recommend rigid polystyrene for the wall cavity, because it won’t sag if there’s moisture, rockwool is also a good choice if it can be secured from drooping when there is moisture buildup in the walls.
Rockwool is a better sound insulator than fiberglass thermal insulation, but the better choice would be a specifically manufactured sound batting, also fiberglass, that comes in packages marked with the sound rating and labeled as acoustic insulation.
The choice to add heat or cooling is based on a few factors. One factor is related to the humidity level of the basement, which can be monitored with a humidistat. You may only need a humidifier to control humidity, since the ground is an excellent insulator that slows heat and cool air from radiating to the room because of the ground’s large mass. If you remember to insulate between the floor joists at the outside wall, the cool and heat should be under control. Vents in the interior walls will defeat the sound privacy purpose of the room and are not recommended. Good luck!
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Everything in this world is a function of timing. Whether it’s sports or some other activity, timing is everything. And it will be a key issue when it comes to the state’s longplanned congestion-pricing plan, which is scheduled to start sometime in 2024. There is no doubt that drivers in New York City face challenges every day. As the coronavirus pandemic has faded, negotiating the traffic in and out of the city has become a disastrous experience. There are many more suburban private-vehicle commuters than anyone anticipated. Planning groups have been advocating for many years for a congestion-pricing plan. It has worked in London and Singapore, and it was hoped that it would eventually come to New York. But the key question is whether or not it’s the right time to impose this burden on scores of thousands of drivers.
I have always been an advocate of finding a way to cut down on congestion in the city. A number of mayors have grappled with ideas on how to improve traffic flow, but all of their ideas have fallen flat. With more bike lanes and parking restrictions as well as the traffic, it’s almost impossible to maneuver around the city at virtually any hour of the day.
Is it the right time to start the congestion pricing program? No. I think it’s the wrong time, for a variety of reasons. The Covid nightmare may be long gone, but the city hasn’t recovered. Many businesses suffered greatly, and are just beginning to recover from their losses. Charging trucks that make multiple trips to the city will just become a consumer tax.
The hearings on the congestion plan were a sham. Members of the public were given a chance to weigh in on whether they supported such a plan, but listeners sounded bored with the whole process. You can’t have a real hearing without knowing what it will cost to use the toll zone.
The Metropolitan Transportation
Authority says it will soon reveal the toll structure, but by then the plan will be a done deal. There is no way that car and truck owners will have an opportunity to express their concerns, ideas or opposition to the final announcement. Knowing the MTA from past experience, I expect the tolls to be arbitrary and unreasonable.
The agency has stated that tolls could be as high as $23. My guess is that they will be much higher. The real toll structure will depend on how much it will cost to set up the tolling system. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent to get the E-ZPass system up and running. If the construction contract runs over budget, and you can expect that it will, drivers who commute will end up paying to cover those costs.
Most people aren’t familiar with the term “bond covenants,” which relates to the guarantees in the congestion-pricing legislation. It means that the tolling costs will be covered by the tolls drivers pay. If the cost of erecting tolling devices is exceptionally high, the tolls will have to
rise to pay off the bonds.
The MTA has said that the tolls may be lower on weekends. But with drivers covering the no doubt excessive construction costs, don’t expect any bargain fares. Sadly, the more questions people ask about the details of the program, the more likely it will be to turn into a disaster, because those answers won’t come in time.
This program wasn’t launched by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration. It was created by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Hochul has now inherited the plan. She is at the mercy of a bureaucracy that is rarely people-sensitive. If the MTA botches the toll structure and offers a confusing implementation plan, Hochul will have inherited a major political headache.
Congestion pricing is a good government idea. There is a need to control the city’s traffic nightmare. But those who drive into the city need this plan right now like they need a hole in the head.
Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.
The number of foreign correspondents has plummeted in the past 10 years, and most overseas news bureaus have either shrunk or shuttered their offices. At the same time, more reporters are being killed or kidnapped by extremist groups. No one knows the exact numbers, because families and news agencies are protective of information about individuals in captivity.
We may have come to a turning point in journalism, where the danger of reporting from jihadist strongholds has become too extreme to justify the presence of correspondents.
Steven Sotloff, 31, was the 70th journalist killed in Syria since civil war began tearing the country apart in 2011. That is a devastating number of fatalities for a noncombatant group comprising professional reporters who just want to get the story and send it home.
Despite a heartbreaking videotaped appeal by Sotloff’s mother, the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, beheaded him and posted the video on YouTube. He was the second American reporter to die on his knees in a faraway desert in recent weeks. ISIS also recorded the murder of another reporter, James
Foley, sending those brutal images, too, out into the world.
Sotloff and Foley belonged to a courageous band of brothers and sisters who travel the world to tell the who, what, where, why and how of natural disasters and armed conflicts. They do the counterintuitive thing — running toward danger in order to see what is happening on the ground.
A driven group of professionals, they are willing to endure just about anything that life in the field can throw at them: deplorable living conditions, foul weather, loneliness, fatigue and violence. Their goal is to get the most accurate facts and interviews they can and transmit or broadcast the stories, often from the battlefield.
There is the glory, too, along with the guts. And there is glamour as well, and a storied history of dashing correspondents who covered wars by day, hunkered down with troops, and caroused by night in bars from Singapore to Saigon.
Dexter Filkins, author of “The Forever War,” wrote about reporting from Afghanistan and Iraq during those wars. He spoke honestly about the addictive quality of living on the edge every day. I’ve followed his career, watching him return again and again to whatever city happens to be in flames.
That’s what foreign correspondents have always done, from Ernie Pyle and
Ernest
Rather and Morley Safer in Vietnam. They fly into danger, push toward the front lines and try to nail the story. They employ fixers and translators and locals who work both sides of the street. And, too often, they die.
In 2002, journalist Daniel Pearl was killed in Pakistan on his way to meet an informant. In 2011, CBS reporter Lara Logan was sexually assaulted by dozens of men in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on the day that rebels toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak. In 2012, a 21-yearold British journalist, Natasha Smith, was also attacked in Tahrir Square, and barely escaped with her life. A year later, a female Dutch journalist, 22, was attacked and raped in Tahrir Square by five men, while a chanting mob stood by and watched.
The atmosphere has turned toxic for foreign reporters, especially in the Middle East. In the past, all sides in a conflict respected journalists’ neutrality and sought out reporters in order to tell their side of events.
Now, however, a reporter in the field, especially a Western journalist, is seen as a commodity, a bargaining chip in a kidnap scheme, a source of ransom money, and a target. ISIS doesn’t need a foreign correspondent to vent and rant. It has YouTube. Reporters are not only expendable; kidnapping them is profitable, both in dollars and propaganda.
Randi is on a brief leave. This column was originally published Sept. 11-17, 2014.
I watch Richard Engel, of NBC, reporting from the rooftops of Baghdad, and I see Anna Coren, an Australian correspondent, reporting from Mosel. I don’t know how they summon the courage to carry on in such a hostile environment, and I don’t know that they should.
Perhaps we need to rethink the model of sending journalists into war zones. CNN and the other major news organizations try to protect their people, moving them from safe house to safe house and changing their daily routines to discourage kidnapping. But the nature of war has changed. Freelancers, like Foley and Sotloff, are especially vulnerable; they don’t have an organization behind them. The risks they took outweighed any possible benefit.
It may have been worth the sacrifice in the 1940s to get news of faraway battles back to friends and relatives at home, and it surely was journalists who helped turn the tide of public sentiment against the war in Vietnam. But these days there are cellphones and social media to get the word out. Today’s wars in Iraq and Syria, in Gaza and Libya are turning reporters into coveted trophies, vulnerable to kidnappings that often end in death.
Copyright 2023 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
Reporters are seen as commodities, bargaining chips in kidnap schemes.
The MTA has said the tolls could be as high as $23. My guess? They’ll be much higher.JERRY KREMER
For many, summer is the time for camp, vacation and weekend barbecues.
However, for some children across the country — and even right here in Nassau County — summer leaves school-aged kids scrambling to find a healthy meal, since they can’t depend on the federally subsidized breakfast and lunch programs at their school.
It’s far more prevalent than many might realize. One report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that 12 percent of American households had children who weren’t getting enough to eat.
They call it “food insecurity,” but let’s call it what it really is: hunger.
And hunger is quite close to home, too. In fact, 1 in 4 people on Long Island who are hungry are kids. That’s 65,000 kids who are not getting three full nutritious meals every day, among more than 221,000 people overall.
While we can’t forget what it’s like to be hungry, there are even more lasting impacts beyond the sound of a grumbling stomach. Young people who are not eating properly and regularly are at a higher risk than their peers to experience behavioral issues such as anxiety, aggression and hyperactivity, according to experts. They often suffer from a reduced ability to learn social skills, impairing cognitive learning and possibly even incurring permanent brain damage.
A lack of food also raises the risk of becoming sick and possibly having to endure chronic illnesses such as anemia and asthma.
Kids who are eating healthy during
the summer break are more than likely to retain what they learned during the previous academic year, and be better prepared to build on that foundation when they return to school.
The Summer Food Service Program administered through the state’s education department aims to fill the gap across New York. Locally, Island Harvest — a Melville-based hunger-relief organization — partners with roughly 35 community locations across Long Island — churches, health centers, libraries, recreation centers, parks and schools — to get food to those who need it.
Last year, Island Harvest served 75,000 meals to more than 2,500 children. To educate the kids on the value of eating healthy food, there were also hands-on nutrition lessons. Learning how much sugar was in their favorite breakfast cereal and drink was a “wow” moment for many of them.
Long Island Cares is another group battling hunger in Nassau and Suffolk counties. The Hauppauge-based organi-
To the Editor:
The coronavirus pandemic, without a doubt, changed the world — and one of its most notable effects has been the acceleration of technology initiatives as the public and private sectors seek to digitize more operations and communications. Many artificial intelligence products have come out of these advances, and many are being put to use by state and local governments with input from private tech companies.
Governments are adopting AI at an accelerating pace. New York City and state agencies have experienced a broad expansion of AI applications, such as chatbots. And now, with last year’s widespread introduction of AI tools that can create new content such as text and images, it appears that further changes are on the way.
It is imperative that the private sector and government institutions meet the moment by adopting comprehensive risk-mitigation strategies and effective AI governance
zation runs an array of programs from emergency response and recovery, to Baxter’s Pet Pantry for starving dogs and cats. There are also youth-oriented offerings such as the Kids Café, Pack It Up for Kids, and the summer food program.
As you sit back in your easy chair in the sunshine, you’re thinking, “OK, there are programs to feed the children. What can I do?”
Get involved. Getting food to the hungry takes effort — money or manpower.
Island Harvest has a food donor program. Neighbors and other groups can run a food and fund drive, and you can volunteer. For a teen looking to collect community service hours, this is a great way to earn that volunteer time while truly making a difference, maybe even for a peer.
Long Island Cares also has multiple avenues to help. There is corporate giving, individual donations, hosting a food drive, the Student Hunger Advocacy Coalition and, of course, volunteering.
These are but two of the organizations on Long Island that battle hunger. There are many local organizations that could use your time and support.
Ensuring children are properly fed through the summer is an investment we can’t afford not to make. Typically, every dollar donated equals two meals, according to Island Harvest.
Like that old commercial, “you can pay me now or pay me later,” we can help feed children now, or deal with the consequences of unhealthy young people in the near future. And that comes with a higher price tag for society, and for someone to grow up knowing all too well the pains of hunger.
If you compiled the names of the most impactful Long Islanders in our history, you’d surely start off with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Marie Colvin — and in my estimation, Harry Chapin is a fitting fourth candidate to complete a cross-cultural Mount Rushmore of great Long Islanders.
In just nine years as a recording artist, Chapin released 12 albums that embodied his distinctive style as a musical storyteller. Thanks to timeless melodies and stirring lyrics that vividly told stories of everyday life, songs like “Taxi,” “W.O.L.D.,” “Circle,” “Sequel” and, of course, “Cat’s in the Cradle” became embedded in the soundtracks of our lives in the 1970s, and have endured in the decades since.
benefit concerts, and used his platform as a springboard for advocacy. He was involved in launching World Hunger Year (now known as WhyHunger) in 1975, and establishing the Presidential Commission on World Hunger during the Carter administration. But the food bank that now bears his name is perhaps his greatest innovation. When Chapin launched Long Island Cares in 1980, he created Long Island’s first food bank, and in doing so revolutionized our regional approach to addressing food insecurity and hunger.
Using his remarkable gifts, Chapin also pursued a philanthropic calling: a mission to eradicate hunger, in the United States in particular.
As one of the world’s highest-paid entertainers at the time, he gave generously to charitable causes, hosted numerous
In 2021, Long Island Cares distributed 14 million pounds of food — the equivalent of 11.5 million meals — and it now has a half-dozen brick-andmortar storefront locations across the Island. The agency was instrumental in addressing crises like Superstorm Sandy and the economic disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. And because no member of a family — included the four-legged and feathered ones — is spared from hunger, the seventh location, Baxter’s Pet Pantry, is dedicated to collecting and distributing pet food and supplies to families in need.
In this oft-derided age of the celebrity
frameworks that prioritize transparency, accuracy and fairness.
Unfortunately, the ability to understand the risks involved with some AI products — and the strategies to reduce or eliminate those risks — has not kept up with the pace at which AI is being put to use. Numerous studies have shown a significant rise in AI adoption and investment, with most experts foreseeing a further boost in AI investment in the coming years. Alarmingly, organizations have made little progress in addressing wellknown AI-related risks such as bias, lack of transparency and safety concerns.
This concerning trend is also evident in government institutions. My recent report on AI governance in New York City found that the city lacks an effective AI governance framework. City agencies have been left to develop their own divergent approaches, resulting in ad hoc and incomplete measures that fail to ensure transparency, accuracy and fairness in AI systems.
This is concerning because while AI promises vast opportunities, it also carries inherent risks. Several incidents — even before the pandemic — illustrated the unintentional harm that can be caused by government AI systems designed or implemented irresponsibly. A faulty automated fraud-detection system in Michigan erroneously accused thousands of unemployment insurance recipients of fraud, causing financial ruin for many. Similar issues have plagued other systems related to Med-
icaid eligibility determinations, facial recognition, criminal justice, health care, teacher evaluations and job recruitment applications.
New York City has been a forerunner in examining the use of AI. It was among the first to establish a task force dedicated to examining the responsible use of automated decision-making systems, including AI systems. But the city’s efforts are no longer keeping pace with this rapidly advancing technology. Despite the task force’s recommendations and the expansion of AI applications during the pandemic, the city still doesn’t have an effective AI governance framework.
As we continue to embrace the technological leaps brought forth by the pandemic, we must ensure that we do so responsibly. Audits, such as the one my office conducted in New York City, can help drive change by raising awareness of where risks lie. Understanding these risks and identifying blind spots is a first step in the right direction, but the city must also take further action, such as implementing a robust governance framework to ensure that the use of AI is transparent, accurate, unbiased, and minimizes the potential for disparate impacts. I encourage my colleagues in government to join me in ensuring that AI systems work to further the greater good for all New Yorkers.
candidate, Chapin would have been a natural to run for the House of Representatives or another elected office, but not because he was a star. He would have been ideal because he did the work and cared deeply about the future we shared. Sadly, he never got that chance. On July 16, 1981, Chapin was driving his Volkswagen to a benefit concert at Eisenhower Park when the car was struck by an 18-wheeler on the Long Island Expressway and he was fatally injured.
The shock of his sudden, untimely death reverberated through the park on that summer evening, and through our society for years afterward. He would be cited as an inspiration for endeavors like USA for Africa and Live Aid, and countless memorial awards, theaters and humanitarian events would be named in his honor.
Neighboring municipalities like Suffolk County have declared July 16 Harry Chapin Day in honor of all he achieved in just 38 years. In Nassau County, I continue to pursue legislation I filed last year to establish a Harry Chapin Day of our own. While there has been no action by the legislative majority to date, I will never lose hope, or lose sight of the important mis-
sion in front of us.
Rather than wait for the gears of government to turn, I decided to immediately implement one of the tenets of my proposed legislation — after all, Chapin was the man who said, “When in doubt, do something!” Starting on July 16, my office will hold its second annual summer food drive, to benefit Long Island Cares and draw renewed attention to Chapin’s legacy.
Among the many lessons of the past several years, we have all been confronted with the hard truth that far more of our neighbors struggle silently with food insecurity than we ever knew.
If you would like to support this endeavor, you can make a contribution of nonperishable goods at the Plainview-Old Bethpage and Syosset libraries and Plainview’s Trio Hardware, or donate directly to Long Island Cares, through Aug. 16. Call my office, at (516) 571-6216, or email adrucker@nassaucountyny.gov, if you have any questions.
In Harry’s words again, “We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.” This summer, as Nassau County residents and Long Islanders, let’s unite to move the world to a better and more humane place.
Arnold W. Drucker has represented Nassau County’s 16th Legislative District since 2016.
Using his remarkable gifts, Chapin pursued a philanthropic calling.THOMAS P. DINAPOLI New York state comptroller
