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Mount Sinai places one last steel beam By ANDRE SIlVA asilva@liherald.com
Tim Baker/Herald
IT wAS A celebration at the new J Wing Patient Pavilion at Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside last week as hospital and construction leaders gathered to celebrate the raising of the final steel beam. The $113 million facility is expected to welcome its first patients in 2024.
It’s a tradition dating back to some of the earliest days of modern construction. When a building is almost completed, the builders celebrate its construction by placing the last steel beam at the highest point in what’s known as a “topping out” ceremony. Mount Sinai South Nassau upheld this custom with its own topping out ceremony last week, celebrating the completion of the four-story J Wing Patient Pavilion at Oceanside’s
One Healthy Way. More than 40 people — including board members, construction workers and other staff members — gathered for photos with the final steel beam of the building’s construction. Attendees — clad with white hard hats — signed their names onto the beam, and cheered when it was hooked to a crane and hoisted up to the top of the building, where it was placed securely. The steel beam was adorned with an American flag on one end, a small tree on the other, Continued on page 5
From pages of Facebook to pages of a real book Long Island nostalgia social media group adapted into new work
By JAKE PEllEGRINo Special to the Oceanside/Island Park Herald
A Long Island nostalgia Facebook group started by four Oceanside-based community members, “Hey Long Island ... Do U Remember” has been recently adapted into book form, published by MacInyre Purcell Publishing, so that Long Island memories can now live on forever. “The book came out of the Facebook group, which has been around since 2008 and now has 160 thousand followers,”
Stacy Mandel Kaplan, one of the authors and Facebook group administrators said. “We developed the concept of a book so that we can preserve these memories for future generations.” T h e b o o k ’s o t h e r f o u r authors are Scott Mandel, Kimb e rly Towe r s a n d Jo rd a n Kaplan. The group’s “About Us” page says it aims to “fondly remember some of Long Island, New York’s long lost but never forgotten places and the memories that it brings. Sharing memo-
ries of Long Island’s past, together we treasure Long Island as a place we call(ed) home.” Stacy said that the book builds upon that mission. “When writing the book, we tried to put in the highlights of the people and places and events that scream Long Island,” Stacy said. “Every page is a memory and even infor ms the reader of things they may not have known before. We’ve included a lot of little known facts or trivia or info from a historical perspec-
tive that people who’ve even grown up on Long Island, like myself, may not have known.” Having grown up in Oceanside, one memory featured in the book that is near and dear to her heart is the community’s iconic Nathan’s Famous hot dog restaurant.
“We have a page on the Nathan’s space, which started as the Roadside Rest and then became the Nathan’s” Stacy said. “But we also talk about the original Nathans in Coney Island, since geographically Continued on page 12