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VOL. 31 NO. 4
JANUARY 20 - 26, 2022
In Sea Cliff, sidewalk law under review
such conditions as the Board of Trustees shall direct,” the law reads. “Repairs and corrections Sea Cliff is considering an of conditions shall be carried amendment to village code that out under the supervision of the would shift what is now shared Board of Trustees, and the cost financial responsibility for side- thereof shall be shared equally walk repairs to homeowners by the Village and the property whose property borowner.” ders them. Villafane says she Almost universalthinks most resily throughout Nasdents are unaware sau County, the obliof the Streets and gation to maintain Sidewalks Law, as and re pair sideshe was. The discovwalks and trees that ery prompted her to are in the village evaluate this and “right of way” — other laws that may usually the portion be considered outof the property closdated. est to the street — “I found it out falls on residents. LESLIE KINCAID myself,” said VillaSea Cliff, in contrast, fane, who is an attorcurrently shares the BURBY ney. “because I had a cost of repairs of Sea Cliff client who lives in areas in the village Garden City, and he right of way with homeowners, got a notice from the village to according to the Streets and repair a sidewalk because a tree Sidewalks Law, and Mayor Elena root had pulled up a portion of Villafane says the board of trust- the sidewalk, and he had to pay ees has discovered that Sea Cliff that cost. I began to wonder, is one of the few municipalities what do we do? Our statute prothat does so. vides that it’s a cost-sharing “It shall be the duty of every arrangement. So the village has property owner to keep the side- been looking at it, and trying to walk adjoining his premises in a assess what the financial impact safe, passable condition and to make such repairs and correct CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com
Courtesy Navid Moradi
KONKUSSION HAS PERFORMED together for the past five years, including before crowds of 500.
Konkussion, a band of local teens, releases debut album BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com
Members of the rock band Konkussion — Noa and Ella Pourmoradi, 15-year-old twins from Great Neck, and Sea Cliff ’s Ava and Wes Petersen, 15 and 13, respectively — who might be mistaken, given their talent, for much older musicians, released their debut album on Dec 11. The band worked on the album, “Just a Dream,” in their free time during the coronavirus pandemic, playing each song for hours to perfect them. “We had so much fun mak-
ing and recording the new album, we really bonded through the recording process,” Ava said. “Recording was such an amazing experience because we all took our [individual] creative ideas and merged them into the final product.” When writing most of the songs for “Just a Dream,” one of the teens would come to a rehearsal with an idea, and the others would build on it until the idea became a complete song. “It is so fun to be together and write for hours straight,” Ella said. “Writing brings out something inside of us that we never knew was
there.” Denise Petersen, Ava and Wes’s mother, said that their father, Wes, has played in rock bands much of his life, and the tradition of music on that side of the family goes back generations. From the time they were young children, the Petersens were brought along to the concerts their parents attended, including metal bands like Iron Maiden and punk bands like Rancid. While their parents are not musicians, the Pourmoradi twins, sophomores at Great Neck North High School, were also raised around CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
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wish the village had done more to preserve walkability in Sea Cliff.