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Assisted-living center planned for vacant lot ry structure that would house 85 units. “Assisted living is a critical msmollins@liherald.com, service for a community, just oceaneditor@liherald.com like day care would be for a comA 4,500-square-foot vacant lot munity,” said Phillip Kroskin, in Oceanside that has been the Sunrise’s senior vice president center of controversy and law- of real estate. “It allows people suits may finally be developed the dignity to be able to age in after Sunrise their community, Development Inc. near their loved presented an appliones, while they cation to build a can have dignity new assisted-living and grace as they facility there to the go through the balHempstead Town ance of their life.” Board on Oct. 1. Calls and emails The lot, at the to Sunrise requestnorthwest corner ing information on o f Te r r e l l a n d the project’s cost, Atlantic avenues, and whether develwould have to be opers would seek a rezoned from a restax break from the idential district to county or town a business district, Industrial Developb u t t h e b o a r d PHilliP kROSkiN ment Agency — unanimously voted Senior vice president had not been to postpone a vote of real estate for returned at press on the application time. Sunrise Development until a later date to Developers said review it thorough- Inc. the building would ly. be similar to the Sunrise has ones in Lynbrook more than 325 communities, as and East Meadow in size and well as 10 buildings on Long scope. The first two floors would Island, including in Lynbrook be dedicated to assisted living, and East Meadow. Developers are seeking to build a three-stoContinued on page 24
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Praised for their prose SEVERal OCEaNSiDE SCHOOl No. 5 students were recently published in the High Merit section of the Creative Communications spring 2020 anthology. Above, the students with teachers Jeanne Menoutis (now retired), far left, and Ramona D’Aulisa, far right. Story, more photos, Page 3.
Commissioner is asked to resign Racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic remarks found By MikE SMOlliNS msmollins@liherald.com
An Oceanside Sanitation District No. 7 commissioner who was recently re-elected to the board was asked to resign after he was alleged to have published racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic social media posts in the past. Commissioner Ryan Hemsley came under fire after the Facebook posts were unearthed, and as a result, the board has asked him to resign from his position. Hemsley said on Oct.
15 that the posts were “doctored or completely made up” to discredit him after a contentious election last month. Then in a series of text messages Sunday night, he told the Herald that he had been aware of the posts for many months, but that other people had posted them on his page, and he was asked to remove them by Commissioner Austin Graff before joining the board. “T hese posts that were released are not who I am as a person,” Hemsley said on Oct. 15. “It is absolutely disgusting,
and I did not post them. I am a veteran, family man and a member of an Oceanside volunteer group” — the Oceanside Community Warriors. Hemsley, a sheet metal worker in Queens and a member of Local Union 28, joined the board in January after Commissioner Matthew Horowitz stepped down, citing conflicts from juggling his duties on the board with his career. Because he took over in the middle of Horowitz’s term, Hemsley had to run in last month’s election, in which Continued on page 23
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ssisted living is a critical service for the community, just like day care would be for a community.