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Bovino says goodbye to I.P. schools ed superintendent at the Sept. 1 Board of Education meeting, and Dr. Alison Offerman-Celentano As she contemplated her 19 will take on his former role as years in the Island Park School assistant superintendent. District following her retirement, In a letter to Bovino, which longtime SuperinBoard of Education tendent Dr. RosmaPresident Jack rie Bovino said she Vobis read at the was pleased with all Aug. 17 board meetthat administrators ing, trustees wrote accomplished over that she “led with the years, despite passion.” the many challeng“You guided our es they faced. ship through every “Every year has storm,” the letter been more rewardread, “including ing than the one floods, hurricanes before,” said Boviand even a pandemno, 67, of Merrick. DR. RoSMaRiE ic. We are eternally “Whether I’m with gratefully for your children and teach- BoViNo leadership and ers in a classroom, Retiring s a l u t e yo u f o r parents at a consuperintendent, Island standing with us cert, administrathrough thick and tors in a safety drill, Park School District thin.” board members at a Bovino has been business meeting, staff members an educator for 43 years. She was in the office, construction work- principal of the Chinese Internaers at a flood restoration site or tional School in Hong Kong, local officials in a government where she managed typhoon office . . . I feel most fortunate to recovery, and then director of have derived both satisfaction studies at Friends Academy, in and happiness from my life’s Locust Valley, before coming to work.” Island Park. She started in the Bovino retired on Aug. 31. Vin- district as assistant superintencent Randazzo, the former assistant superintendent, was appointContinued on page 5
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‘let them play’ Parents and student athletes brandished signs at a rally outside Oceanside High School on Aug. 31, urging officials to allow fall sports to start at a normal time this year. Members of the varsity football team also attended. Story, more photos, Page 8.
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O’side teen singer to perform at virtual music fest By MikE SMolliNS msmollins@liherald.com
Oceanside pop singer Ali Berke is lending her voice to help many Long Island businesses in need as the coronavirus pandemic drags on. Berke, 19, is one of nearly a dozen artists set to perform in WBLI’s “Keep 6 Feet” virtual music festival on Saturday, which will begin streaming at 5 p.m. on iconcert.tv and will be
broadcast on 106.1 FM WBLI radio. Event proceeds will go to several Long Island music venues that have remained closed because of the continuing ban on mass gatherings. “I think it’s a very empowering feeling,” Berke said. “It’s super, super special that I’m able to be a part of something like that. I love to give back and to help these venues stay open at such a hard time. As artists, we need these venues, and it’s
something that we love.” Berke was one of 10 artists asked to take part in the showcase. She will perfor m four songs, including her latest single, “Maybe You’re Right,” which is now streaming on Spotify, iTunes and Apple Music. Though the pandemic has paused live perfor mances, Berke has stayed busy writing and recording material that she Continued on page 17
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The hardworking people of Oceanside Sanitation are asking the community they serve for their help and support this coming election. The workers of Oceanside Sanitation are asking the Oceanside community to stand together with them on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, to help re-elect John Mannone and vote in Ryan Hemsley.
"A lot of people are angry. Regardless of the clawbacks, his reign of terror is over.”
The workers of District 7 are hoping you will join them in reelecting Commissioner and Co-Chairman, John Mannone, to continue the fairness, honesty, and commitment he has shown over these past five years to the workforce and the town. John Mannone has not only fought for the workers but the taxpayers as well. John has been a positive force in removing the cronyism, self-serving outside clubs and business affiliations that plagued the district for decades before his arrival. Previously, the personal needs of the board members came before the needs and health of the people that work at the district and the community it serves. Before John’s arrival, monthly board meetings were not as easily accessible to the public as they are today. They were held in a private room and during morning work hours. Upon his arrival, monthly meetings became more inclusive. The meetings have since been moved to a larger space and are held during evening hours. Upon winning his seat in 2015, John was interviewed and quoted saying:
John kept his word. He helped usher in necessary and long overdue change while recouping money that belonged to the district and the town (to the tune of $300K). He also kept his promise to create a healthier and safer workplace free from bullying for the workers. One last point to cement John’s character; during his five years as commissioner, John has never collected the medical benefits or monthly stipends that are available to the position. He is a class act. The town and the workers need John Mannone to return and continue the work he started five years ago. The workers are also endorsing Ryan Hemsely for the twoyear Commissioner position. In the short time that Ryan has been Acting Commissioner, he has worked well with the current board; facing a pandemic, protecting the health of the workforce and the town. The men value his continued support of them, realizing their concerns and maintaining an altruistic board, free of personal ambition and outside influence. We believe Ryan will help continue to cultivate the positive culture we have worked so hard to create.
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MSSN nationally recognized for women’s health
■ Five star for gynecologic procedures (eight years in a row) ■ Five star for hysterectomy (six years in a row) ■ Five star for caesarian section delivery ■ Five star for vaginal delivery “These awards are a result of Mount Sinai South Nassau’s steadfast commitment to providing high-quality, patient centered women’s healthcare services,” MSSN President and CEO Richard J. Murphy said. “Our team worked tirelessly this year to provide care during a pandemic and excelled to meet every challenge presented to them. I am extraordinarily proud of their efforts.” Based on comparison outcome data, the awards place MSSN among a select group of hospitals in the US — the top 5 percent of all hospitals evaluated for gynecologic procedures and the top 10 percent of hospitals evaluated for providing outstanding quality outcomes in gynecologic surgery. Patients have a lower chance of experiencing a complication when treated at hospitals receiving one or more of Healthgrades’ Women’s Care Specialty Excellence Awards than if they were treated in hospitals that were not recipients, according to Healthg rades, the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals. To demonstrate the difference in quality and outcomes between hospitals receiving the excellence award from Healthgrades and those that did not, and to help consumers evaluate and compare hospitals’ performance in gynecologic surgery, Healthgrades analyzed all-payer state data for 16 states from 2016 through
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Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside was recently named a 5-star award recipient in four women’s health care categories. 2018. Healthgrades found that there is a significant variation in hospital quality between those that have received five stars and those that have not. The analysis found that patients treated in hospitals receiving the Healthgrades Gynecologic Surgery Excellence Award, had, on average, a 46.7 percent lower risk of experiencing a complication while in the hospital than if they were treated in hospitals that did not receive the award. It also revealed that if all hospitals in the analysis performed similarly to those receiving the award, complications could have potentially been avoided for 10,121 patients. “Our multi-disciplinary health care team of top physicians and nurses utilize the latest medical technologies and treatments to deliver standard-setting healthcare tailored to the specific needs of women,” said Dr. Alan Garely, the chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at MSSN and professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The hospital also has multiple accreditations, designations and awards for its
women’s health services, including accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers and Baby-Friendly Hospital designation. MSSN provides a range of women’s healthcare services, including breast health, obstetrics and gynecology, maternal fetal medicine, genetic counseling, women’s imaging, and gynecologic oncology. “This ranking is a testament to our commitment to provide high-quality care to women, from high-risk pregnancies and infertility to breast cancer and reproductive malignancies,” said Dr. Adhi Sharma, the hospital’s chief medical officer and executive vice president of clinical and professional affairs. “I commend our dynamic team of physicians, nurses and support staff who are committed to providing cutting-edge care to the women in our community.” The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology offers women access to specialized health care for optimum treatment of reproductive health conditions, from endometrial biopsies and colposcopies to gynecologic oncology. Its Women’s Center for Pelvic Floor Disorders uses
state-of-the-art technology administered by to diagnose and treat all-too-common conditions, such as incontinence and constipation, and MSSN is one of only a handful of locations in the country that offers this service. MSSN’s obstetricians use advanced medical technology at the Center for Maternal Fetal Medicine to provide the specialized care mothers, and unborn children may need to monitor and manage conditions that, if left untreated, could jeopardize the health and wellbeing of the child, mother or both. In the Center for New Beginnings, a team of experienced obstetricians, labor and delivery nurses and high-risk pregnancy specialists delivered 2,326 babies in 2019. In addition to advanced maternal-fetal medical technologies, the center features 26 private family/newborn rooms with first-class hotellike accommodations, spacious labor and delivery rooms, and a 6-bed neonatal intensive care unit. Staffed by board-certified neonatologists, the NICU is equipped with the dedicated medical technologies that premature deliveries and newborns with developmental complications or conditions require. The center also has a dedicated state-of-the-art surgical suite for mothers needing a caesarean section delivery. The Center for Breast Health is accredited by the American College of Surgeon’s National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers. NAPBC accreditation is granted only to those centers that have voluntarily committed to provide the best in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment and is able to comply with established NAPBC standards. “Hospital quality should be top of mind for consumers when they evaluate and compare hospital performance,” Healthgrades Chief Medical Officer Brad Bowman said. “Women who select a hospital with a five-star rating can feel confident in their choice knowing that these organizations are committed to providing exceptional women’s care to their patients.” Courtesy Mount Sinai South Nassau; compiled by Mike Smollins
MSSN hospital earns high accolades The 2020 edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s annual hospital rankings has recognized Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside as “high performing” in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and endocrinology, heart failure, orthopedics and urology. “Our ranking is a direct result of our ongoing commitment to excellence in patient-centered care and acknowledges our dedicated team of physicians, nurses and support staff, all of whom worked so tirelessly this year during the Covid-19 pandemic,” MSSN President and CEO Richard J. Murphy said. “Now more than ever, this recognition for our specialized care services is especially meaningful,
and I am tremendously proud of our team for earning this honor.” MSSN is the Long Island flagship hospital of the world-renowned Mount Sinai Health System. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 14 nationally by U.S. News & World Report. Its Department of Geriatrics earned the No. 1 spot in the nation in geriatrics, and five specialties are ranked among the nation’s elite hospitals: cardiology/heart surgery (No. 6); gastroenterology/GI surgery (No. 9); diabetes/ endocrinology (No. 11); nephrology (No. 12); and neurology/neurosurgery (No. 12). New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, America’s oldest specialty hospital — celebrating its 200th anniver-
sary this year and one of the world’s leading facilities for the treatment of diseases of the eyes, ears, nose, and throat — was nationally ranked in ophthalmology at No. 11. Now in its 28th year, the U.S. News Best Hospitals rankings help guide patients who need a high level of care because they face particularly difficult surgery, a challenging condition or added risk because of other health problems or age. To produce the rankings, U.S. News evaluates data on nearly 5,000 hospitals in 16 adult specialties, nine adult procedures and conditions and 10 pediatric specialties. To be nationally ranked in a specialty, a hospital must excel in caring for the
sickest, most medically complex patients. “This recognition is a direct result of our team’s collaboration and commitment to excellence,” Dr. Adhi Sharma, MSSN’s chief medical officer and executive vice president of clinical and professional affairs. “The U.S. News & World Report recognition is among the most respected in the industry and is a testament to our mission to treat our patients with leading-edge medical technologies and adhere to the highest standards in patient safety and care.” Courtesy Mount Sinai South Nassau; compiled by Mike Smollins
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Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital announced that it is has been named a 2020 five-star recipient for four women’s health care categories, and also earned the Gynecologic Surgery Excellence Award by Healthgrades. This is the eighth consecutive year that the medical facility has received the excellence award in gynecologic surgery. MSSN earned awards in the following women’s care service lines:
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OutgOing FASnY PreSident Steven Klein was recently honored. Attending were, from left, Bryan Butler, Jonathan Green, Igor Saperson, Second Lieutenant Kevin Klein, former Captain Jonathan Green, State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, former FASNY President Steven Klein, Christopher Klein, Captain Joe Starna, First Lieutenant Zachary Schwartz and Second Assistant Chief Charles Daskalakis.
Outgoing FASNY president receives honor Outgoing Firemen’s Association of the State of New York President Steven Klein was recently honored for his service and dedication. Klein, a for mer Oceanside Fire Department chief, has volunteered for more than 50 years and was elected as the president of FASNY in 2018. He was the ninth person from Nassau County to
hold the position, and the first from Oceanside. State Sen. Todd Kaminsky presented Klein with a citation on Sept. 3 at the Terrace Hose & Chemical Company No. 3 fire station in Oceanside. Courtesy State Sen. Todd Kaminsky; compiled by Mike Smollins
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OutgOing Firemen’S ASSOciAtiOn of the State of New York President Steven Klein, second from left, was presented with a proclamation for his service by Kaminsky, second from right, on Sept. 3. Also joining were former Oceanside Fire Chief Steven Klein, left, and Chris Klein.
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Longtime I.P. superintendent retires dent, then became deputy assistant superintendent, and was appointed superintendent in 2009. She cited Hurricane Sandy as a significant time in her career. “I will always remember the assistance we received from Monsignor [John] Tutone, who opened the Parish Center to the entire community shortly after Superstorm Sandy,” Bovino said. “The darkness filled with light thanks to the back-up generator father operated so we could meet to develop a strategy for saving our schools and saving all three island communities of Island Park in the process. “We shared a vision, we worked tirelessly together,” she continued, “and we recovered.” After the storm, Bovino helped pass major bond referendums in 2013 and 2017, which helped repair both Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School and Lincoln Orens Middle School. Bovino also started the district’s universal, full-day pre-kindergarten program in 2014. Additionally, she spearheaded the creation of a Spanish program for all kindergarten through eighth grade students in the district, as well as a wealth of other updated, 21st century learning programs for students, including scientific technology, social-emotional learning and expanded English as a Second Language. During her time as superintendent, she
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also advocated for the Island Park community in its ongoing battle with the Long Island Power Authority over tax revenue. With Covid-19 shuttering school buildings in March, Bovino faced challenges all the way up to her retirement — she implemented new, online communication practices as students shifted to remote learning. Now, as children return to school this week, Randazzo has taken the reins. “Mr. Randazzo is bright, capable and talented,” Bovino said. “With the help of the new assistant superintendent, Dr. Alison Offerman-Celentano, and our wonderful faculty and staff, the district will move forward in many new and exciting ways.” Bovino will continue teaching at Queens College of the City University of New York, where she has been an associate professor in the Department of Educational and Community Programs for the past 15 years. She has lived in Merrick since 1976. She said in retirement she will also enjoy time with her husband of 48 years, Art, and their children, Arthur and Emily, and their grandson, Gus, 3. She said she was grateful for her time in Island Park, despite facing many obstacles along the way. “I believe the community came to know me, and I came to know them,” she said. “Whether faced with good times or bad, we worked together to ensure the best educational opportunities for the students of Island Park.”
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in 2011, dr. Rosmarie Bovino was presented the Island Park Chamber of Commerce’s Community Service Award by chamber member Henry “Mickey” Hastava.
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Beth-ann Castiello, prinCipal of School No. 3, far right, greeted first grade students who visited for a tour the week before schools reopened.
A look inside School No. 3 for fall 2020 By Briana Bonfiglio bbonfiglio@liherald.com
Beth-Ann Castiello, principal of Oaks School No. 3 in Oceanside, spent Sept. 1 taking small groups of first-graders and their parents on a tour of their new school building, as they are moving up from Kindergarten Center School No. 6 this year. In her enthusiastic manner, she engaged students with information about how social distancing, mask wearing and instruction will look this year. The students got to see classrooms, with desks six feet apart, and ask questions. “Quality education is still going to be happening,” Castiello said, as she pointed out that classrooms largely still feel the same, albeit with desk barriers and fewer desks. “I feel strongly about that.” School No. 3 will welcome 465 students for in-person learning — about 47 students, or 9 percent, opted for remote learning. The school will also run its breakfast program for up to 60 students every morning at 7 a.m. starting Sept. 14. There are several changes, though — students will eat lunch and have “specials,” such as music and art, in their classrooms. Recess will be held outside in seven desig-
nated areas, with their cohort only, and will rotate between those areas. And teachers will be given “fresh air spaces” to hold lessons and provide mask breaks. “We’re using every ounce of outdoor space,” Castiello said. “Those mask breaks will be so important for kids and teachers.” When the weather is not conducive to going outside, recess will be held in the classroom, and children will practice mindfulness and learn about health and wellness, Castiello said. A portion of the gymnasium has been converted for the band and chorus room, where music students rehearse in the mornings. The art room has been made into an extra classroom, and there is an isolation area separate from the nurse’s office where students exhibiting Covid-related symptoms can wait for their parents to arrive. Depending on their classroom teacher, students will enter and exit through different doors upon arrival and dismissal, Castiello explained. The first three days of school — Sept. 9, 10 and 11 — are half days that are being treated as “orientation” for all School No. 3 students to get acclimated to the new school procedures.
there are marks on the floors to show where desks are placed, six feet apart. Castiello said that desk barriers would be arriving the weekend before schools started. sChool no. 3 has converted part of its gymnasium into a music room to hold chorus and band lessons.
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Amid outcry from residents and elected officials, New York American Water announced that it has postponed a rate hike that was set to take effect on Sept. 1. The decision came after the utility engaged in discussions with the Department of Public Service and decided not to go through with the increase amid the coronavirus pandemic. The hike was originally slated for April 1, 2019, but was then delayed to April 1 of this year. At the height of the pandemic on Long Island, the utility delayed the price spike to Sept. 1, and now it is postponed further to Jan. 1, 2021. “In addition to the postponement, it is our sincere hope that the Long Island delegation takes action to unburden our customers from excessive taxes that make up 31-55 percent of their water bill by reintroducing tax relief legislation,” NYAW President Lynda DiMenna said in a statement. DiMenna’s remarks reflected a sentiment echoed by Lee Mueller, the utility’s external affairs manager, who said last month that much of the increase is caused by state taxes, and noted that there has been recent legislation proposed in the State Senate to eliminate those special franchise taxes. “The fastest path toward significant rate relief is reducing the unfair tax burden levied on our customers,” she said. “. . . We pledge to work with the [Long Island state legislative] delegation to double down on their efforts and ensure that legislation is passed by both houses of the Legislature. Taxes make up between 31 and 55 percent of our customer’s bills. Reducing that burden will quickly provide true rate relief.” In addition to the rate year 4 increase postponement, the system improvement charge, scheduled to go into effect Aug. 1, and the revenue adjustment clause/ property tax reconciliation charge, scheduled to go into effect Nov. 1, were also pushed to Jan. 1. The rate increase postponement is applicable to all customers, including residential, commercial, fire service and irrigation accounts. With new rates on Jan. 1, residential customers in the Lynbrook service area, which includes Oceanside and Island Park, will pay a certain amount per 100 gallons that they use:
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a recent rally drew more than 100 people, including student-athletes and parents from Oceanside, Lynbrook, Rockville Centre, East Rockaway and other Nassau towns
Sports community rallies for a fall season Oceanside families to Nassau superintendents: ‘let them play’ By Briana Bonfiglio bbonfiglio@liherald.com
More than 100 student-athletes and their families rallied in front of Oceanside High School on Aug. 31 to send a clear message to Nassau County superintendents: “let us play.” Disappointment fell over the school sports community after Nassau superintendents voted unanimously on Aug. 26 to postpone the fall season until January 2021. In response, a committee of Oceanside sports parents, including Lori McKee, Jessica Brusca and Jennifer Lazzaro, organized the rally outside the high school. The gathering drew out families from Oceanside, Rockville Centre, East Rockaway, Long Beach, Lynbrook and other Nassau communities. From about 6 to 6:30 p.m., the crowd held bright signs, chanted “let them play” and cheered on speakers — parents, students and elected officials — who addressed the importance of sports for students. Oceanside seniors Bella Lazzaro, a soccer player, and Mia Judd, a lacrosse player, agreed that school sports serve as an outlet for students throughout the year. “We’ve waited long enough to play,” Lazzaro, captain of the varsity soccer team, said. “If it’s about liability, I guarantee you we’d all be willing to sign a waiver to be able to play.” “Staying inside for so many months isn’t healthy,” Judd added. Michael Furst, a sophomore on the varsity football team, agreed. “Sports help me out mentally,” he said. “It annoyed me because Suffolk is doing it, so why can’t we?” The postponement was made two days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued guidance permitting lower-risk high school fall sports — soccer, tennis, swimming, field hockey and cross-country — to begin practicing and playing on Sept. 21, while noting football and volleyball could begin practicing, but not playing. It made Nassau the first of the state’s 11 sections to move its fall season. “We’re very upset,” said Dawn Frango,
mother of senior athlete Matthew Frangos. “It should be the same [decision] across the board.” Hempstead Town Councilman Anthony D’Esposito spoke at the rally and affirmed that the Town Board supports the schools’ right to play this fall. “We flattened the curve,” he said, “and now it’s time to let these kids play. It benefits them at home, it benefits them in the classroom. It benefits them physically, mentally, in so many ways.”
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino also voiced his support for sports, and said he attended a similar rally in Massapequa earlier in the day. “The governor said it’s OK,” he said, “so how can a small group of people say ‘no’ to us? Our parents know what they’re doing. Our teachers, our school administrators, our coaches, they realize the importance of this.” McKee, mother of Charlie McKee, the quarterback of the varsity football team,
noted that she is a pediatric critical care nurse of 30 years, and her “biggest concern is the mental well-being of these children.” “Suicidal ideation, depression, drugs and alcohol has been huge over the last six months,” she said. “Without sports, these kids don’t have any goals, there’s a void in their life.” As the rally ended, Brusca urged parents to email their superintendents and push them to reconsider the decision.
Bella lazzaro, a senior and captain of the varsity soccer team, above left, spoke about what sports mean to her and her peers. Parents and student-athletes held signs in support of holding a fall school sports season. student-athletes of all ages were in attendance.
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Panelists on the latest Inside LI webinar gave crucial advice for homebuyers and sellers in a market that’s been heating up all summer. On Sept. 3, Inside LI, produced by RichnerLive, hosted its third virtual panel discussion on topics related to “new normals” in different aspects of life. It featured real estate experts who discussed Covid-19’s impact on the market and gave tips for buying and selling homes. The 45-minute webinar included panelists Steven Dubb, principal of The Beechwood Organization; Bryan Karp, real estate salesman at Coach Realtors; Annie Meneses, associate Broker at Signature Premier Properties; Joseph G. Milizio, attorney and managing partner of Vishnick McGovern Milizio LLP; and Deirdre O’Connell, chief executive officer of Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International.
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Moderator Skye Ostreicher, of RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers, first asked how long the panelists foresaw the high demand for homes continuing on Long Island. “Everything points to a hot market for the next several months,” Dubb said, “at least until there’s a vaccine and it’s safe to go to the city. I think that’s going to be a while.” O’Connell explained that because of the Covid-19 pandemic, people are spending more time at home and reassessing their lifestyles. For many who live in apartments in the five boroughs, that means fleeing east to buy a home with more space. “Housing isn’t just about a place to sleep anymore,” she said. “It’s a place to live, and then you add on the low interest rates, and it makes doing it more afford-
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thiS SPlit-level hoMe in Glen Cove is on the market for $839,000. able no matter what the price point.” Karp agreed, noting a large shift of people moving from Manhattan to the boroughs, from the boroughs to Nassau County and from Nassau to Suffolk counties. However, there is low supply for all that demand, the panelists agreed, because sellers may be uncomfortable having people tour their homes and risk spreading the virus. Realtors and real estate agents have taken this into account, and most house tours are by appointment only. The low supply and high demand is causing the most fast-paced market that some have ever seen, and there are often bidding wars for homes. “It is probably the best seller’s market that I’ve seen in many, many decades,” Karp said, “but we don’t have an unlimited time for this.”
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So what should sellers who want to
take advantage of this hot market do? O’Connell noted that although there are bidding wars, that doesn’t mean sellers should slap a high price tag on their home “just because.” “While we are seeing bidding wars and over-asking, [buyers] are not going into that huge aspirational price point,” she said. “People still will pay market value and slightly over for homes that are in beautiful condition.” Karp advised sellers against doing any major renovations to the home before selling; because the market is moving so quickly, time is of the essence. “As long as you don’t have water pouring down in the kitchen, just sell it the way it is,” he said. “In this market, it’s about time. The quicker you can get to market, the better chance you have to scoop up as much equity as possible.” Meneses noted that in this fast-paced market, the process for sellers typically
takes two to three weeks.
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For buyers, the experts emphasized working with a team of real estate professionals to help with all aspects of the purchase. This includes a local real estate agent and real estate attorney who know the ins and outs of the local market — “do not hire a litigation attorney, do not hire a divorce attorney,” Karp said. “You want someone who is knowledgeable about today’s market and what is OK and what is not OK.” Even after an offer is accepted, Milizio noted, there are still many problems that can arise in the contract phase. The purchase or sale of a home is the largest and most important transaction in most people’s lives, and its purpose isn’t merely transactional—it’s to create a home for a family,” he said. “What I would like to Continued on neXt page
Northwell invests $30M in Covid-19 testing the nation, Northwell Health recently purchased high-throughput diagnostic testing analyzers from Hologic, Roche and Abbott, as well as cartridge-type tests from Genmark, Cepheid, Diasorin, Biomeme and Abbott. Northwell also is using “best-in-class,” in-lab, wet antibody chemistry tests from Roche, Ortho, Abbott, EuroImmune, Diasorin and others. Northwell Labs currently processes about 7,000 molecular nucleic acid amplification tests and an additional 3,000 antibody tests per day, with the capacity for increased volume. Northwell Labs is also focused on eliminating false positives, which at this stage of the pandemic has the potential to close schools, by developing a two-step algorithm for retesting isolated positives versus clustered positives. “Most testing today is for screening purposes, so we need to mitigate the potential effects of sporadic false-positive results,” said Dr. James Crawford, senior vice president of laboratory services at Northwell. “These are more likely to occur now that the New York area positivity rate is below 1 percent.” Northwell Health Labs officials said they are committed to providing ongoing testing during the pandemic, no matter its length or severity. Anyone in need of a Covid-19 test can get one though Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care, Northwell Health Labs patient service center (with a doctor’s prescription) or via inhome testing through the LabFly app.
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Northwell Health Labs announced last week that it has increased its ability to ramp up the number of coronavirus tests it can conduct and reduce disruptions to its laboratory supply chain should a second coronavirus wave strike, this despite New York’s currently low Covid-19 infection rate. Northwell Health has spent more than $30 million since the beginning of the pandemic on Covid-19 testing equipment and lab supplies, including a variety of new automated machines this summer to ensure diagnostic and antibody testing could continue in the event of a new surge this fall or winter. The lab processes tests for 19 Northwell hospitals, 52 urgent care centers and more than 800 outpatient facilities — along with the needs of strategic partners — across Long Island, New York City and the Hudson Valley. “Our goal has been to deploy at scale as much testing as possible, as quickly as possible, so we were among the first labs to implement, validate and evaluate performance characteristics for most of these tests,” said Dr. Dwayne Breining, executive director of Northwell Health Labs. “Early in the pandemic, it was unclear which manufacturer would be able to supply quality testing at scale, so we ran with them all. As various supplychain issues have emerged, maintaining multiple testing platforms has been a successful mitigation strategy.” As one of the largest investors in Covid-19 testing by a hospital-based lab in
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Northwell health labs has made a multi-million-dollar investment in Covid-19 laboratory testing equipment and supplies, and continues to make that investment in the event of a second wave of infection this fall or winter.
Real-estate market heats up across Long Island continued from PreViouS Page impress upon buyers and sellers is to consult a real estate attorney at the beginning of the process, not the end, which ensures a smoother, quicker and often less costly process.” “We do need a team of professionals to support each other so we can give necessary advice to buyers,” Meneses added. “You don’t have an accepted offer until your contracts are fully executed.” During the virtual event, viewers sent in questions, which Ostreicher read to the panelists. One asked how low-income buyers could navigate the real estate market, especially those who might be unemployed during the pandemic. Panelists agreed that the market is heating up in all areas, from upstate New York to Shelter Island, at all price points, including as low as $200,000. However, some buyers have chosen to wait out this period of low inventory so they have more options, Meneses noted. Meneses also said there are new down-payment system programs available for those with a tight budget. Ultimately, it’s an exciting time for the real estate industry, the panelists said. Though they lost about three months of business in the spring, this change in the market has allowed them to bounce back quickly. “The opportunity is now, the opportunity is in front of us,” Karp said. “It will probably run another six months.” To watch a recording of this webinar, visit richnerlive.com/insideli-realestate. To suggest a topic for a future Inside LI webinar, send an email to insideli@liherald.com.
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O’side teen to perform at virtual music festival said she hopes to assemble on a new album. Music first became a passion of Berke’s when she was 3, and she began recording in a studio for the first time at 13. She moved to Oceanside from Manhattan with her family when she was a child, and graduated from Oceanside High School in 2018. She also incorporates dance routines into her songs and plans to head to Los Angeles to meet with a new producer and record more songs when the virus passes. Berke said she misses touring and performing live, but noted that the quarantine gave her time to write new material, and that it made her relish opportunities like the virtual music festival. “It’s been very challenging,” she said. “Performing and recording music is my outlet when I’m going through things, and unfortunately during this time I went through some personal things and I wasn’t able to use my outlet to make myself feel better. It made things harder, but I got through it.” This will mark the second Keep 6 Feet festival after the first one garnered 60,000 views online on July 25. That event supported artists who performed by adding a donate button on viewers’ screens as they played. More than 50 artists jammed at the show for about 11 hours. Tiffany Castillo organized the festival through her talent agency, Trademark
Talent NY, which represents Berke. The second showcase will feature a surprise headliner, who will be supported by Berke, as well as artists Mikey See, Linda Linn, Jaeo Draftpick and many more. Organizers are also looking for more artists, Castillo said, inviting potential performers to contact Trademark Talent NY on Facebook for more information. “I am big in philanthropy, so it’s one of my favorite things to do is to give back, and our thing is, we bring the dance floor to your living room,” Castillo said. “. . . What I love about Ali is that she’s set far from everybody else. She’s truly who she is. She’s not trying to be like anyone else, and her talent sets her apart from anybody because she’s true to her.” Described by Berke as “pop with an R&B vibe,” her songs have had many messages over the years, and her music has been used as a platform to help those in need and spread a positive message. Many of her songs focus on anti-bullying, and she was invited to take part in an anti-bullying tour in April 2018 sponsored by Foremost Records. On it, she performed at schools in Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee and Texas. She said she was teased in high school because of her enthusiasm for singing, and used her own experience to reach the students she met on the tour. Now, she’ll have an opportunity to help venues that are in need, and her father, Jack Berke, said she
What: Oceanside pop singer Ali Berke will perform at WBLI’s “Keep 6 Feet” music festival. When: Saturday, Sept. 12, at 5 p.m. Where: On the WBLI radio station and iconcert.tv. More info/tickets: keep6feetfest.com
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Oceanside pOp singer Ali Berke will perform at the “Keep 6 Feet” music festival, sponsored by WBLI and Trademark Talent NY. was happy to do so. “We’re excited and honored for this opportunity,” he said, “and to be a part of this great cause.” Berke’s passion for music has also provided her with many memorable experiences, she said, including singing the national anthem at the Nassau Coliseum before a Long Island Nets game and in Coney Island before a Brooklyn Cyclones game, and giving her the
chance to perform at the famed South by Southwest Festival in Texas and “God Bless America” before a Mets-Phillies game at Citi Field in 2017. Last year, she had concerts at Adventureland and Roosevelt Field Mall. Berke has not performed in front of a live audience since she had a show in Times Square in February, during which one of her music videos flashed on one of the giant screens there. She said she hoped to continue her virtual performances going forward, and added that she is eager to get back in front of live crowds again when it is healthy to do so. “I just want to do what I love, even if we can’t be in large venues right now,” she said. To keep up with Berke, follow her on Instagram @aliberkeofficial, on YouTube at Ali Berke Music, on Facebook and Twitter at ThisIsAliBerke and on TikTok at Aliberkeofficial. To learn more about the festival, visit keep6feetfestcom.
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LEGAL NOTICE INDEX NO. 611056/2019 Plaintiff designates NASSAU as the place of trial situs of the real property SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 165 NASSAU LANE ISLAND PARK, NY 11558 District: Section: 43 Block: 50 Lot: 307 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU ___________________ ___________________ ___________ N A T I O N S T A R MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER, Plaintiff, vs. JAMES LOPEZ; JENNIFER LOPEZ if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff ; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.
___________________ ___________________ ___________ To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $328,652.00 and interest, recorded on October 19, 2009, at Liber M 34280 Page 724, of the Public Records of NASSAU County, New York, covering premises known as 165 NASSAU LANE ISLAND PARK, NY 11558. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. NASSAU County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. 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 the 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 the mortgage company will not stop the 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. Dated: January 20, 2020
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LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU INDEX NO.: 000519/2015 D/O/F:3/19/2020 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Premises Address: 3061 Xavier court Oceanside, NY 11572 WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE FOR UPLAND MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST A, Plaintiff againstDAVID SHEA AS POSSIBLE HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F. MURRAY; PATRICIA MURRAY AS POSSIBLE HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F. MURRAY; MARGARET MATHIAS A/K/A MARGARET A. MATHIAS AS POSSIBLE HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F. MURRAY; MICHAEL COLICCI AS POSSIBLE HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F. MURRAY; MICHAELA SACCOCCIO AS POSSIBLE HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN FL. MURRAY; DOROTHY GUERTIN AS POSSIBLE HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURAY A/K/A JOHN F. MURRAY; CHRISTINE MAHIAS AS POSSIBLE HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F. MURRAY; MAUREEN ALLARD AS POSSIBLE HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F. MURRAY; KATE LI DANZIG AS POSSIBLE HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAYA/K/A JOHN F. MURRAY; KRISTINE JANKOWSKI AS POSSIBLE HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F. MURRAY; KATHLEEN SHEA AS POSSIBLE HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F. MURRAY; NORMAN W. MATHIAS AS POSSIBLE HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF JOHN
MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F. MURRAY; “JOHN DOE 1-50” AND “JANE DOE 1-50”, intending to be the unknown heirs, distributes, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, and assignees of the estate of John Murray a/ka John F. Murray who was born in 1949 and died on March 22, 2010, a resident of the Hempstead, NY, and their successors in interest if any of the aforesaid defendants be deceased, their respective heirs at law, next of kin, and successors, in interest of the aforesaid classes of person, if they or any of them be dead, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff; NYS DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, UNITED STATE OF AMERICA-INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, “JOHN DOES” AND “JANE DOES”, the last two names being fictitious, said parties intended being tenants or occupants, if any, having or claiming an interest in, or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorneys within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Thomas A. Adams, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, entered March 5, 2020 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Nassau County Clerk’s Office. THE OBJECT OF THE ACTION is to foreclose a mortgage recorded in said Clerk’s office on January 29, 2014 in Liber M39481, Page 560, covering premises k/a 3061 Xavier Court, Oceanside, NY 11572 a/k/a Section 54, Block 221, Lot 17. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME
Joseph V. Eliseo, a longtime Valley Stream and Oceanside resident known for his kindness, intelligence and volunteer work died on July 10. He was 78. Eliseo was born on March 19th 1942, in the Bronx to Vincent and Carmela Eliseo. He attended a private Catholic school, and worked for Coca-Cola, where he met his future wife Anna Tampone Eliseo. The two were married in 1962 and moved to Valley Stream where they raised two children Vincent and Maria Eliseo. The two started a distributor business in the Bronx with Pepsi-Cola. Tampone Eliseo predeceased her husband, and 1988 Eliseo remarried to Patricia Strickland Eliseo from Manhattan. Together they resided in Oceanside. And through his second marriage www.liherald.com
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acquired four adult stepchildren: Denise, Doris, Dawn and Danny. Eliseo was known to be considerate, caring, loving, kind, intelligent and witful. “I have never met anyone who has had anything but kind for this man, my wonderful father,” his daughter Maria Eliseo said. “As long as I can remember my father’s focus was to help everyone he could. His happiness was found in his works of others and their happiness.” Eliseo is survived by his wife, Patricia Strickland Eliseo; son, Vincent and Daughter Maria. A celebration of his life took place at the Flinch & Bruns Funeral Home in Lynbrook on Sept. 4 and a Mass was held in his honor at the St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre.
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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 the 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. YOUR MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. The following notice is intended only for the defendants who are owners of the premises sought to be foreclosed or who are liable upon the debt for which the mortgage stands as security. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. PLEASE BE AWARE: (1) that debt collectors, in accordance with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. S 1692 et seq., are prohibited from
engaging in abusive, deceptive, an unfair debt collection efforts, including, but not limited to: i. the use or threat of violence; ii. the use of obscene or profane language; and iii. repeated phone calls made with the intent to annoy, abuse, or harass. (2) If a creditor or debt collector receives a money judgment against you in court, state and federal laws may prevent the following types of income from being taken to pay the debt: 1. Supplemental security income, (SSI); 2. S o c i a l security; 3. P u b l i c assistance (welfare); 4. S p o u s a l support, maintenance (alimony) or child support; 5. Unemployment benefits; 6. Disability benefits; 7. Workers’ compensation benefits; 8. Public or private pensions; 9. Veterans’ benefits; 10. F e d e r a l student loans, federal student grants, and federal work study funds; and 11. N i n e t y percent of your wages or salary earned in the last sixty days. TO THE DEFENDANTS: MARGARET Me MATHIAS A/K/A MARGARET MATHIAS AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTE OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN
MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F MURRAY; CHRISTINE MATHIAS AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTE OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F MURRAY; MAUREEN ALLARD AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTE OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F MURRAY; KATE DI DANZIG AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTE OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F MURRAY; DAVID SHEA AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTE OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F MURRAY; KRISTINE JANKOWSKI AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTE OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F MURRAY; KATHLEEN SHEA AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTE OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F MURRAY; NORMAN MATHIAS AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTE OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN MURRAY A/K/A JOHN F MURRAY; “JOHN DOE 1-50” and “JANE DOE 1-50”, intending to be the unknown heirs, distributes, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, and assignees of the estate of John Murray a/k/a John F. Murray who was born in 1949 and died on March 22, 2010, a resident of the Hempstead, NY, and their successors in interest if any of the aforesaid defendants be deceased, their respective heirs at law, next of kin, and successors, in interest of the aforesaid classes of
person, if they or any of them be dead, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff; NYS DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICAINTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, “JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES”, the last two names being fictitious, said parties intended being tenants or occupants, if any, having or claiming an interest in, or lien upon the premises described in the complaint: If you have obtained an order of discharge from the Bankruptcy court, which includes this debt, and you have not reaffirmed your liability for this debt, this law firm is not alleging that you have any personal liability for this debt and does not seek a money judgment against you. Even if a discharge has been obtained, this lawsuit to foreclose the mortgage will continue and we will seek a judgment authorizing the sale of the mortgaged premises Dated: 3/19/2020 Sandy J. Stolar, Esq., Esq. THE MARGOLIN & WEINREB LAW GROUP, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 165 Eileen way, suite 101 Syosset, New York 11791 516-921-3838 #98623 123014
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This Sept. 11, we mourn more deeply than ever
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or those who lived in the New York metropolitan area when the World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists, Sept. 11 is a day that will “live in infamy,” to quote President Franklin D. Roosevelt — a time of somber reflection, remembering the thousands of dead and recalling the anxiety and fear we felt that horrifying day. On 9/11, we learned, or were reminded, that an azure sky could suddenly turn black, as smoke billowed across the Manhattan skyline from the burning twin towers — a literal and metaphorical representation of the times that followed. We learned, or were reminded, that good people could die inexplicably — that they might vanish in a smoldering mass of concrete and steel, covered in fine, white dust that we later learned was highly toxic to breathe. Some 2,977 people were killed at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon and in a Shanksville, Pa., field, as airliners crashed out of the sky. Another 40,000 people — many of them first responders — now suffer from 9/11-related illnesses because of the air they breathed that day and in the days and weeks afterward, with hundreds dying of rare cancers caused by exposure to the witches’ brew of poisonous fumes and particles at ground zero. Nearly two decades have passed, but for anyone who was in New York at the time, the memory of it all is still raw. This year, though, 9/11 will be more solemn than at
any time in the past 19 years, with the knowledge that every three days, more Americans die of Covid-19 than were killed in the attacks. Much as 9/11 seemingly came out of nowhere, the coronavirus pandemic took us by surprise as well, in what can only be described as a sneak attack — in New York, we thought at first that the virus had spread from Asia to our West Coast, but we now know that it was brought to the metropolitan area from Asia via Europe earlier than believed. According to studies, it spread in our communities in February and perhaps as early as January, without our knowledge, and then exploded across the region in March and April. Thousands of cases arose without warning, overwhelming our hospitals and, as was the case on 9/11, causing widespread alarm and panic, leaving many people shellshocked and distraught. As it did after the attacks, our economy crashed, with businesses closing and the stock market plummeting. Many now wonder what the future will bring. We must remember this: 9/11 taught us not only that the world can be an unpredictable, dangerous place, but also that after a disaster, we can summon our better angels and find the strength to rebuild. We can foster a sense of community by working together to overcome our collective struggle. Sept. 11 was full of tragedy, but its aftermath was also full of hope, found in the heroic volunteerism that followed
the attacks. People reached out to comfort one another through humble acts of kindness. Friends looked out for friends, neighbors for neighbors, strangers for strangers. It was indeed the worst of times, but in many ways it was the best of times, as people’s seemingly unbounded capacity to care for one another, to love one another, shone through. The dark days that we are living through now are no different. We once again see the monumental heroism of our first responders. We see our shared grief turned into volunteer action. We see neighbors looking out for neighbors. We must pause to mourn the dead — the good people taken too soon by an insidious viral invader — but we also must see hope in our humanity, our innate desire to spread good that is too often suppressed by our workaday concerns, but that is unleashed during times of crisis such as this. Each life taken in the attacks and by the pandemic was precious — a light in the world that was extinguished seemingly without reason. That is why this Sept. 11, we must resolve to continue our fight against the coronavirus, to save every life we can. That means getting ahead of the virus by wearing masks, keeping six feet of social distance, washing our hands often and adhering to state reopening guidelines until science at last prevails and a vaccine is discovered.
letters Randi’s too generous in praise of ‘peace plan’ To the Editor: Re Randi Kreiss’s column “Kudos for peace plan, but the prez still needs to go” (Aug. 20-26): Kreiss praises the announcement of the completion of a recent “peace initiative” by the governments of the United States, Israel and the United Arab Emirates. She credits President Trump, Jared Kushner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed with supporting a “path toward peaceful coexistence” between Arab countries and Israel. It should be pointed out that the United Arab Emirates has never been at war with Israel, and before this recent agreement — exchanging recognition of Israel for what may be only a temporary suspension of Israel’s plans to annex the West Bank — there was already important covert cooperation between the governments of Israel and the UAE. The UAE’s air and missile defense systems are manufactured in Israel and are probably even controlled from there. After the announcement of the agreement, Kushner mentioned that the deal made it more likely that the UAE would receive
the F-35 jets the country is hoping to buy directly from the U.S. This deal seems more of a cynical business deal than a peace accord. It also furthers the military alliance between the U.S., Israel and the UAE against Iran. The trilateral deal between the two Middle
East nations and the U.S. is actually an impediment to real peace in the region, as were the Trump administration’s decisions to move our embassy to Jerusalem and to support the continued building and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. It isn’t surpris-
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s the new school year begins, students, teachers and parents are understandably focused on the immediate issue of how schools are reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic. But the pandemic doesn’t let us off the hook. Long Island’s schools are highly segregated and becoming more so, and it is time that we addressed that, too. Long Island is one of the 10 most segregated metropolitan regions in the nation, and the problem is on the rise. As ERASE Racism revealed in 2017, dramatically more eLAine Black and Latinx Gross students on Long Island attended segregated schools then than 12 years earlier. Underlying that segregation is structural racism — the historical and ongoing racial discrimination, segregation and marginalization of African-Americans, in particular, that is typically instigated or sanctioned by government. In this case, it is perpetuated by the fact that Long Island’s two counties have 124 school districts. That fragmentation is not justified by educational priorities; it
is terribly inefficient and wasteful. It simply mirrors Long Island’s segregated residential jurisdictions. As we, as a nation, continue this year’s remarkable public discussion of race in the wake of the tragic killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, we need to come together and plan to end the segregation that has defined Long Island schools for so long. Fortunately, there are steps that we can take, and Long Islanders are already leading the way. ERASE Racism’s Student Task Force, which consists of 47 high school students from 20 school districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties, convenes monthly in an effort to deepen its understanding of structural racism and to develop ways to reduce it in Long Island schools. While it is an extracurricular activity, the students’ insights into how to make curricula more culturally responsive have attracted national attention. The Student Task Force’s members were invited this summer to create and present six culturally responsive virtual lesson plans in the prestigious, four-day Reimagining Education Summer Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University. Three of the students were fea-
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Letters ing that the Palestinian National Authority has denounced this most recent development and recalled its ambassador to the UAE. Making self-serving deals with antidemocratic, repressive, absolute monarchies isn’t the way to peace in the Middle East. Unless there’s real justice for the Palestinian people with agreements that restore full rights and sovereignty to them, no true and abiding peace will ever come to Israel and Palestine. JIM BROWN Island Park Brown is secretary of the Green Party of Nassau County.
The MTA’s fiscal viability To the Editor: Financial viability, in dealing with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s $12 billion deficit, is a fourway dance among fare-box revenue, City Hall, Albany and Washington. There are $12 billion worth of Federal Transit Administration funding projects and programs in active open grants. The MTA has never initiated and completed a forensic audit to determine unspent available balances. The FTA issued guid-
tured in a sold-out plenary session, titled “Rewriting L.I. Curriculum: Structural Racism,” watched by 1,000 educators nationwide. Before the pandemic, the task force met in person. Its members now convene on Zoom and, in doing so, highlight another opportunity: using distance learning as a vehicle for integration. While distance learning is being implemented by individual school districts, it provides an extraordinary mechanism for bringing together students from across school districts. Students from multiple districts can study together without being constrained by the geographic jurisdictions imposed on them by previous generations and their prejudices. Students might come together, for instance, to take Advanced Placement courses or International Baccalaureate classes. They could broaden their understanding by sharing insights with students from other backgrounds. They would enhance their education by benefiting from a variety of perspectives. In that context and more broadly, new curricula should be developed that are culturally responsive, reflecting the
diversity of race, ethnicities and cultures in our nation and our region. Fortunately, the State Education Department has already developed a “Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework,” into which ERASE Racism had input. It helps educators create student-centered learning environments that affirm diversity, while preparing students for rigorous, independent learning and elevating historically marginalized voices, among other goals. To tackle structural racism in education on Long Island, there must also be engaged faculty, and this is another asset to build on. Over the past three years, 87 Long Island educators from 15 school districts and 37 schools have been named Rauch Foundation Fellows, and have been sponsored to attend the Reimagining Education Summer Institute at Teachers College. There they focused on teaching and learning in racially diverse schools and demonstrated a commitment on which Long Island can build. Long Island has a long way to go to eradicate the structural racism in its educational system, but it has resources to draw from, including student and faculty leaders pointing the way. Elaine Gross is president of ERASE Racism, the regional civil rights organization based on Long Island.
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ance on March 13 that gave all transit agencies, including the MTA, permission to reallocate federal funding from capital projects in existing grants to Covid-19 expenses. The FTA made available $1.4 billion worth of annual formula funding in 2020. It can program these funds toward Covid-19 expenses. The MTA has already received $3.9 billion in CARE Covid-19 funding. On Oct. 1, an additional $1.5 billion in 2021 funds will become available. (This assumes Congress completes passage of a transportation funding bill on time for a change and sends it to the president so he can sign it.) The MTA can program these funds to cover deficits as a result of the coronavirus. Riders and Washington have already done their part. City Hall and Albany must do likewise. LARRy PENNER Great Neck Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office. His work included the development, review, approval and oversight of billions in dollars of capital projects and programs for the MTA, New York City Transit, Long Island Rail Road, Metro North Rail Road and MTA Bus, along with 30 other transit agencies in New York and New Jersey.
Summer comes to an unofficial end — Jones Beach
CorreCtion The biographical notes at the end of Senior Editor Timothy Denton’s column last week, “A safe return to class should be the goal,” misidentified the Heralds
that Denton edits. They are the Seaford and Watagh Herald Citizens, not the Herald Gazettes.
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The economy needs emergency attention now
hree-quarters of a year into 2020, let’s all pray that the end of Covid19 is mercifully within view. Great progress is being made on fasttracking a vaccine, and once it is readily available, mass immunizations can begin, hopefully putting this scourge behind us. Let’s hope, too, that the nation can make some real progress in race relations. Everyone should want peace in our minority communities, with better relations between police and the public they are sworn to serve. But even after Covid-19 is defeated and law and jusAlfonse tice advanced, D’AMATo there will remain a huge challenge to America’s leaders. Despite the mainstream media’s fixation on the pandemic and the unrest across our cities, the long-term test we will face is creating a broad-based and sustainable economic recovery. Make no mistake, it’s the economy that New Yorkers are especially worried about. A recent poll listed it as their No. 1 concern. That’s not surprising, given that the latest unemployment rate for New York was 16 percent, compared with 10.5 percent for the rest of the country. In New York City the jobless rate was a stagger-
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ing 20 percent. These are deep-recession unemployment numbers that will strain our state’s economy for the foreseeable future. And they hurt our poorest minority communities most. How do we climb out of this economic hole? The first rule should be not to dig ourselves deeper into it. At the height of the greatest recession since the 1930s, economists of all political stripes generally agree that this isn’t the time to slap big new taxes on struggling taxpayers and businesses. Instead, over the past few months, Congress and President Trump — along with the Federal Reserve — have pumped several trillion dollars into the economy to keep Americans afloat. That prevented the economy from falling into a second Great Depression. There’s broad-based agreement in Washington that more economic assistance will be needed to see the nation through the next few financial quarters. The president has indicated that he would support it, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has repeatedly signaled he is ready to negotiate a realistic package with Democratic congressional leaders. This could pump another trillion dollars into the economy, including more help for ordinary Americans to pay for rent and food, and additional assistance to
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struggling small businesses to keep their doors open and provide desperately needed jobs. For the rest of this year and into 2021, avoiding mass evictions and further losses of small businesses along with their jobs should be priority No. 1. Americans will also have to decide, on Election Day, what type of economic policies they want to see in Washington for the next four years. Before the pandemic struck, the Trump administration’s lower taxes and regulatory relief had helped produce the highest employment and the best economy in decades. Minorities and women had been especially helped by the rising economic tide. If in 2021 we take a step back to higher taxes, more burdensome business regulations and pie-in-the-sky boondoggles like the Green New Deal, our economy could end up hobbled for years. If you want to see what damage such heavy-handed energy regulation can do, look to California, where radical green-energy policies have left the state without adequate electrical power to keep the lights on. Rolling brownouts like those that plague thirdworld countries have become common across California. Take that ill-considered approach nationwide and the current recession could last until the end of this decade, or
here should be more help for people to pay for rent and food, and for small businesses.
beyond. Raising taxes, imposing economically stifling new business regulation and strangling our energy independence with bans on new energy development would dramatically slow the economic recovery. What will be needed instead for the foreseeable future are economic incentives for businesses and individuals to spur growth. One promising incentive program I’d like to see more widely applied is the socalled Enterprise Zone initiative devised by South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott. This program has broad bipartisan support. It targets tax relief to job-creating investments in some of our nation’s most economically distressed areas, helping lift hard-pressed communities. It should be expanded to cover more of those communities with broader investment incentives, especially for new manufacturing jobs. Right here on Long Island there are pockets of economic distress that could significantly benefit from an Enterprise Zone program. And leaders in Albany should consider adding state tax incentives in these zones as well to amplify the benefit. Because the economy needs emergency attention now. Al D’Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? ADAmato@liherald.com.
Deliver the letter. The sooner, the better.
eet at the mailbox, we told our kids when they walked up the block to wait for the school bus. Those were the elementary school years when the yellow bus hauled them off to Franklin and then Hewlett Elementary School in the Five Towns. Of course you met at the mailbox, the ubiquitous blue mailbox, whatever your community and your particular RAnDi adventure that day. kReiss Those were the days, actually until very recently, when mailboxes were just there, as part of the landscape, a reminder of a service that delivered letters despite the climate, political or meteorological. My husband grew up in Lawrence, and he remembers getting mail delivery twice a day. Those were the days before mail sorters and USPS websites, and before mail-in voting became a controversial issue. With the acceleration of technology and advanced security measures, much has been lost, particularly the reassuring
notion we grew up with that the postal service was a dependable agency, not a victim of political infighting and a target of misinformation campaigns. Are mailboxes being carted away in the middle of the night to discourage voting? Is the postmaster general a decent CEO or a tool of a rogue administration? The world we live in is muddied with many disturbing questions. I am setting that aside and thinking today of the romance of mailboxes, which changed to brilliant blue in 1971 from red, white and blue. My first real letter exchange was with a pen pal I had in Israel. I still remember her name, Giza Shalev, and we wrote back and forth for a few years beginning when I was 10. It was the most thrilling and exotic connection in my life. I have love letters, and I have written love letters, and there isn’t a text or email that can compare to the ink on the paper and the intimacy of the handwriting from the person you love. I may have married my husband because of a love letter he wrote to me when we were seniors at Lawrence High School. He said he didn’t
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understand his feelings, but he knew he couldn’t resist the “chemistry” between us. The guy wasn’t a writer, but this was real poetry. I still have that handwritten letter, which was delivered by our mailman in 1964. For one year of my life, my senior year in high school, the mail was the focus of all my ambitions. I deposited my college applications in the blue box, and received my answers in our front-door mail slot. How do we decide what to keep? I have a box of letters from other Lawrence High School friends from our first year away at college. Oh my, the drama and depression and yearning for home and for love and for what we had together before we opened our lives to a world away from best friends and yes, lovers. Everything came in the mail, from college grades to teacher’s licenses to job acceptance letters. My husband got his draft notice in the mail in 1967. I got my teacher’s license, and then, later, I branched out and sent freelance articles to newspapers and magazines and got my acceptances by mail.
hope these blue boxes continue to dot the land, and that we support the USPS.
One of the most significant letters I wrote was one to my Uncle Sidney, who was estranged from my family because my mother didn’t welcome his beautiful young wife. He declined the invitation to my wedding. But Uncle Sid had been my loving, funny uncle who took me to the Rockaway boardwalk to play Skeeball. I wrote to him — part supplication, part guilt, mostly loving memories — and begged him to come. He wrote back that he would, and he did. What was your best letter ever? Was there a letter that changed your life? When we married and had kids, there were impossibly worrisome camp letters referencing weird rashes and black snakes lurking in the freezing lake. Later, there were letters from our son’s bike trip in Denmark and our daughter’s long-haul hike in New Zealand. Eventually, sadly, email and texting supplanted personal letter writing. Still, I hope the big blue boxes continue to dot the landscape. I hope mail carriers and postal workers are supported in their work. And I hope every single person who needs to vote by mail can have his or her voice and choice heard. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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